Experience

• Orca, VC Backed Founder

  2026 - 2026, San Francisco

  Lightyear funded (HF0 incubated) startup.

  • Built agent harnesses with integrated wallets that pay users for tasks executed on their own devices; deployed for media distribution, and designed to extend to distributed workloads like market simulations, federated learning, etc.

• Apple, SWE Intern

  2025 - 2025, Cupertino

  Intelligent System Experience.

  • Placed Top 5/1,500+ interns for Best Future Apple Feature at iContest 2025 and pitched the feature to 7 executives; it is being shipped to production on iOS/macOS.

• UCSD, SWE and Research Assistant

  2024 - 2026, San Diego

  • TRELS Candidate (2025 - 2026): Training models via custom RL gyms and imitation learning to build a long-horizon agent to reach Global Rank #1 in Polytopia (Google DeepMind tried and stopped in 2021).
  • XR Lab (2025 - 2025): Research on human cognition in non-Euclidean spaces and VR/AR.
  • LIL Lab (2024 - 2025): Research on language learning in children.

• Dream Voyage, SWE Intern

  2024 - 2024

  a16z Speedrun company.

  • Worked on consumer AI applications (web and mobile).