About Me
I'm a Software Engineer passionate about building products that boost productivity and simplify daily lives. Recently, I've developed a growing interest in natural language processing and uncovering the "black box" of LLMs.
Through internships, hackathons, and projects, I've gained hands-on experience in Full-Stack Web Development and AI Engineering while collaborating with designers, product managers, and other engineers.
In my free time, I enjoy travelling the world, playing volleyball, and learning foreign languages.
Technical Skills
Languages
Frameworks & Databases
Developer Tools
Libraries
Experience
Software Engineer
Amazon
Jun. 2026 - Present
Spoddr
Co-Founder
Sept. 2025 - Apr. 2026
- Co-founded a social fitness platform as a team of 6 (2 Software Engineers, 1 Hardware Engineer, 1 Product Manager, 1 Finance, 1 Marketing) from initial customer discovery and validation to full-stack MVP launch
- Architected the core mobile-web client (Expo), SQL database schemas, FastAPI business logic, and BLE/Arduino hardware integration to automate rep/weight tracking and eliminate manual logging friction
- Engineered the AWS cloud infrastructure (ECS, RDS, Cognito) and observability stack (CloudWatch)
Undergraduate Student Researcher
The University of British Columbia
Sept. 2025 - Apr. 2026
- Designed and trained a Sparse Autoencoder (SAE) to map and disentangle latent representations of a 70M-parameter transformer model, achieving an 93%+ reconstruction score (R²) on a 600K-token dataset
- Built an ETL pipeline to aggregate, clean, and resolve conflicting schemas across disparate NLP data sources (Universal Dependencies, WordNet, VerbNet, Wiktionary) into a unified sparse matrix
- Presented research abstract at both the Language Sciences and CS Student Research Conferences
Software Engineer Intern
Amazon Payments
May - Aug. 2025
- Engineered a CloudWatch MCP Server in TypeScript for internal teams to automate workflows with AI agents
- Accelerated integration test generation by 90% by leveraging CloudWatch service logs, AI agents, and MCP servers
- Automated CloudWatch metrics comparison with a hybrid shell script and agentic AI workflow with MCP servers
Co-President, Software Development Director, Logistics Director
nwPlus - Organizers of the largest hackathons in Western Canada (HackCamp, nwHacks, cmd-f)
May 2022 - May 2025
- Led 55-member team to organize 3 major hackathons, welcoming 1,150+ participants and 79 sponsors
- Managed 6-engineer team shipping 8 projects supporting 1,700+ users
- Spearheaded the largest beginner-friendly hackathon in Western Canada, attracting 100+ first-time hackers
Software Engineer Intern
Amazon Prime - Customer Engagement
May - Aug. 2024
- Reduced onboarding time for PMs by 98% by building a 100% self-service customer state management web app
- Implemented dynamic React forms using JSON Form Schema to populate content from DynamoDB schema
- Refactored Java API controllers to adopt new DynamoDB schema and support JSON serialization
Software Engineer Intern
Amazon Prime - Customer Retention
May - Aug. 2023
- Reduced Prime membership cancellation processing time by 33% by optimizing AWS service configurations
- Refactored CloudWatch dashboards and alarms in TypeScript to improve observability of cancellation traffic
- Simplified QA work in A/B testing by building a browser cookie override tool in Java, saving 15 mins/test
Amazon Future Engineer Intern
Amazon Prime - Customer Retention
May - Aug. 2022
- Retained 10,000+ annual Prime customers by developing targeted retention emails and personalized widgets
- Cut costs by 43% and development time by 49% by automating feature deployment with Bash shell scripts
- Performed manual QA testing and data validation using customer mocking tools
Projects
🏆 expawdition
AI trip planner creating personalized itineraries. 1st place winner at SFU Stormhacks 2023.
liftz
Comprehensive workout tracker with exercise library, history calendar, and plate calculator.
phreview
Chrome extension enhancing language learning through customizable active recall quizzes.