AI Engineer · Founding Engineer · CS @ UT Dallas
Building agentic AI systems, MCP infrastructure, and real-time generative-media tooling.
🔭 Currently building CoTTY — a real-time collaborative terminal. Up next: multi-line input and code signing, notarization & DMG distribution for a public macOS release.
- 🤖 AI Engineering Intern @ NorthMark Compute and Cloud — building MCP gateways and eval harnesses for secure, on-prem LLM deployment.
- 🏗️ Founding Engineer @ Townes & Co. — shipping an AI platform end-to-end, ingestion to deploy.
- 🎓 B.S. Computer Science, UT Dallas (Dec 2026, GPA 3.7) — focused on agents, evals, and applied LLM systems.
- 🏆 Director of HackUTD — the largest 24-hour hackathon in North America.
- 💬 Ask me about Model Context Protocol, agent frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and real-time generative audio.
- AI Engineering Intern · NorthMark Compute and Cloud — Jun 2026–Present · Dallas, TX Built an MCP gateway brokering secure LLM access for 12+ internal tools, plus an eval harness automating validation over 30+ benchmark suites.
- Founding Engineer · Townes & Co. — Apr 2026–Present · Dallas, TX Shipped an AI platform end-to-end; built data-ingestion integrations processing 5M+ records/day for the primary enterprise customer.
- Software Engineering Intern · General Motors Financial — May 2025–May 2026 · Arlington, TX Automated 50+ API endpoints (Python/C#) on Azure DevOps; built a sub-50ms MCP agent; promoted to lead a 7-person team.
- Director · HackUTD (ACM) — Jan 2024–Present · Dallas, TX Direct a 40+ volunteer team delivering a 1,000+ participant hackathon on a six-figure budget; taught 8 workshops to 500+ students.
Languages
AI & LLMs
Frameworks & Tools
Cloud
📜 AWS ML Specialist · AWS Solutions Architect Associate · NVIDIA GenAI & LLM Engineer
| Project | Description | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| CoTTY | A real-time collaborative terminal: CRDT-synced across 4+ live peers with a 60fps+ GPU render pipeline over peer-to-peer transport. | Zig · Swift · Metal · CRDT |
| Lyria Studio | An AI DAW for creating and editing generative music with Google's Lyria — gapless 48kHz live mode, 16-track timeline, sub-300ms streaming. | Electron · React · TypeScript · Zustand |
| VibeCloud | 🏆 Winner, AWS Track @ HookEmHacks (UT Austin). Collaborative whiteboard that reconstructs AWS architectures with Claude vision, then deploys the node graph to LocalStack via AWS CDK. | TypeScript · React · Anthropic SDK · AWS CDK |
| QuantumLoans | 🏆 First Place Winner. Borrow against your crypto holdings without selling them — a collateralized crypto-lending platform. | JavaScript · Web3 |
| Autopsy | 🥈 2nd overall @ LA Hacks · Honorable Mention by Cognition. Forensic memory for AI coding agents — wraps an opencode runtime, records every tool call & rejection into a Postgres + pgvector failure graph, and warns future runs before they repeat a mistake. | TypeScript · FastAPI · Postgres · pgvector |
| Earth2Echo (HackTX) | 🏆 Best Use of Gemini @ HackTX. Real-time AI music generated from live video + NOAA space-weather data — Gemini 2.0 Flash vision into Lyria RealTime. | Next.js · FastAPI · Python · Generative AI |
| Neurolytics | 🥈 2nd place overall @ HackDartmouth. AI neuro-oncology assistant — upload a brain MRI for a Gemini Vision diagnostic summary and grounded natural-language follow-ups. | Next.js · Gemini Vision · AWS S3 |
| Drivo | 🥈 2nd overall @ RowdyHacks. A cross-platform mobile app. | React Native · Expo · TypeScript |
| SafeDrive | Full-stack mobile app fighting distracted driving — phone-camera object-distance detection, collision/hard-brake warnings, and an accountability stats system. | Flutter · Kotlin · Swift · C++ |
| better-oof | An enhanced C++ terminal-graphics library (RGB/indexed color, cursor control, diff-based rendering) with demos: fireworks, snow, radar, and cursor trails. | C++ · CMake |
- 🥇 First Place — QuantumLoans
- 🥇 AWS Track Winner @ HookEmHacks (UT Austin) — VibeCloud
- 🏅 Best Use of Gemini @ HackTX — Earth2Echo
- 🥈 2nd Overall @ LA Hacks · Honorable Mention by Cognition — Autopsy
- 🥈 2nd Overall @ HackDartmouth — Neurolytics
- 🥈 2nd Overall @ RowdyHacks — Drivo
