Work

I'm currently a Software Engineer 2 at Abnormal AI, a leading email security platform that applies behavioral AI to detect sophisticated attacks (phishing, business email compromise, account takeovers) that evade conventional filters by mimicking normal human communication.

I'm on the Dev Accelerator team, which owns developer tooling and platforms whose purpose is essentially to make all the other engineering team's lives easier, and to set up "golden paths" for new product scaffolding.

Wolfjaw Studios is an engineering co-development organization specializing in the design and implementation of backend multiplayer services and game development SDKs for leading game companies. The client company I worked with is Wizards of the Coast, where I contributed to central backend microservices serving several popular online games.

My work involved deep dives into large legacy codebases as well as fresh greenfield projects. In a typical week, I'd shift fluidly between working on backend microservices in Go, building admin dashboards in TypeScript/React, writing comprehensive test suites, troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, templating AWS infrastructure solutions with CDK and Terraform, and owning monitoring and alerting solutions with tools like Datadog.

I also contributed to Catena Tools, Wolfjaw's proprietary suite of tools comprising a modular, comprehensive backend solution for games at any scale.

As part of the process of career-hopping into software, I collaborated with three other early-career developers on the creation, design, and implementation of Umbra: an open-source, real time collaborative code execution platform with support for multiple programming languages.

We chose this project because we were all interested in how real-time multiplayer editing over the internet works. We leveraged conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) frameworks in creating a backend collaboration service to handle conflict resolution in collaborative text editing.

We also achieved low-latency state synchronization for real-time collaboration via WebSocket.

Another significant element of the project required us to research the security concerns involved in executing arbitrary user code. We chose to integrate Piston, an open-source, dedicated code execution engine, for secure code evaluation.

I co-authored the Umbra case study, available at umbra-collab.net.

AoPS Online provides rigorous online curriculum for students ages ~6–18. It encourages logical thinking and problem solving even from the earliest levels.

My role involved providing individualized written feedback on students' mathematical proofs, with topics including algebra, number theory, combinatorics, probability, and geometry.

I also evaluated student mastery of programming fundamentals by grading over 200 challenge problem submissions in Python, addressing bugs, syntax, object oriented design, and code comprehensibility.

Performed professionally as a member of long-term duo partnerships, in chamber music ensembles of 3–7 musicians, and occasionally as a soloist.

Appeared in performance at venues throughout the US including Boston's Jordan Hall; New York's Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Morgan Library Museum, National Sawdust, Fisher Center for the Performing Arts; LA's Zipper Hall; and others.

Fulfilled contracts as an orchestral keyboardist, and realized continuo parts from figured bass in Baroque ensembles.

Served as a rehearsal pianist for numerous opera productions, and assisted professional opera singers in learning roles.

Worked as a staff pianist at the Peabody Institute, New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Bard College Conservatory, and Vassar College.