Relevant Experience

  • Work Experience

  • Software Engineer

    Cisco (Aug 2024 - Present) | San Jose, CA

    Improving device failure analysis by leveraging data science techniques and tools like H2O.ai, OpenAI API, and other Generative AI technologies, leading to more accurate identification of root causes and enhanced reliability of Cisco hardware.

  • Data Science Intern

    FICO (2024) | San Diego, CA

    Implemented various models (including Classifier-Adjusted Density Estimation, Autoencoder, Isolation Forest) to detect fraud score anomalies in transaction data from major international banks in the US, UK, Canada, India, and Brazil.

  • Software Engineer Intern

    Southwest Airlines (2023) | Dallas, TX

    Automated GTM workflows for Ansible Tower through full-stack development, streamlining workflows.


    On intern team tasked with saving $24M/year by launching discounting feature in-house solution to prevent third party fees (presented to CIO).

  • Software Engineer Intern

    CarsXE (2022-2023) | Highland, MD

    Led intern license plate recognition software implementation and development of pip package for company API.


  • Education

  • Master of Science

    UC San Diego

    Machine Learning and Data Science M.S.

  • Bachelor of Science

    UC San Diego

    Electrical Engineering B.S.

  • Research Experience

Awards & Achievements

Hackathon Winner

University of Cambridge

Jun 2025

Won (solo win) the vLex challenge at Hack the Law @ Cambridge

Hackathon Winner

vLex

Jun 2025

Won (solo win) the vLex challenge at Hack the Law @ Cambridge

Award Finalist

Manufacturing Leadership Council

Jun 2025

Our project at Cisco, Agentic Virtual FA, was a finalist for the Manufacturing Leadership Award

Trade Secret Award

Cisco

Jun 2025

Awarded to my team for the Virtual FA project (Agentic Virtual Failure Analysis)

2nd Place Hackathon Winner

UCLA

Apr 2025

Won award (DAIN Track) in LA Hacks out of 172 teams (750 participants)

2nd Place Hackathon Winner

DAIN

Apr 2025

Won award (DAIN Track) in LA Hacks out of 172 teams (750 participants)

Hackathon Winner

Stanford Law School

Apr 2025

Won DWT challenge in Stanford Law School x LLM Hackathon (selected out of 48 teams)

Hackathon Winner

Davis Wright Tremaine

Apr 2025

Won DWT challenge in Stanford Law School x LLM Hackathon (selected out of 48 teams)

1st Place of Advanced Track

HARD Hack | IEEE UC San Diego

Feb 2025

Won first place in the Advanced Category for developing a smart trash sorter

Hackathon Winner

LPL Financial

Jan 2025

Winner of "Most Viable Solution" category in competition with over 40 teams

Scholarship for Electrical Engineering (4x)

ACE Mentor San Diego

May 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024

Merit-based scholarship

2nd Place Hackathon Winner

HARD Hack | IEEE UC San Diego

Apr 2023

2nd place in UCSD hardware hackathon (selected out of 23 teams)

Hackathon Winner

LateNightHacks

May 2022

Won Domain.com prize for LateNightHacks 2022

Hackathon Winner

Domain.com

May 2022

Won Domain.com prize for LateNightHacks 2022

Hackathon Winner

SD Hacks

Apr 2022

Winner of UCSD hackathon's Civic Engagement category (selected out of 30 teams)

Student of Distinction

UCSD Extended Studies

Jul 2020

Article written about me in the UCSD Extended Studies Newsletter