CPR Certification

Performed Analytics on Panamanian citizens to optimize bridge implementation in small village Non-Profit organization with the goal of delivering sustainable and innovative solutions to real world problems in Panama; Member of PMEL (Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning) Team

Volunteer

Director

Bachelor's degree

Taught and developed monthly workshops and interactive lessons on a variety of topics ranging from hardware to software (web technologies, circuitry, IOT, etc.).
Collaborated with faculty, departmental coordinators, and corporate representatives to promote & advertise workshops.

Student Partner

Captain of FTC (First Tech Challenge) Robotics Team (Total 4,500 teams internationally) Winner of World Championship (St Louis, Missouri, April 2015)

Implementing electronics, hardware, and software in competition robotic systems; Heavy emphasis on Autonomous Programming

Team Captain

Intern on the "Niagra" Waterfall analysis team at The Blackstone Group. Contributed to a data validation framework used by fund accountants and partners across the firm.

Summer Analyst

Undergraduate Researcher in Dr. Dezhen Song’s Research Group (Dept. of Computer Science)
Project Title: “Indoor Localization and Mapping using Inexpensive Sensor Modules”
Developing Mobile Applications for data collection and analytics using Java and the Android Studio environment

Undergraduate Researcher

Highlight is changing the way product and engineering teams find and fix issues in their web applications. We're a team of ex YC, Microsoft, Google, and Datadog alumni building at the forefront of the modern web.

Come work with us 😊: https://careers.highlight.run

Co-founder, CEO

Intern on the Communities team at Handshake. Built and deployed a large handful of full-stack user facing features to millions of students worldwide, and was heavily involved in discovery with existing users.

Software Engineer

Designing Electronics / Circuitry and SolidWorks models in large scale robotic systems
CAD Designer for NASA-Sponsored “Sample Robot Return” Team, “Robo-Retrievers”

Electronics / CAD Design Lead

Core member of the platform engineering team at Deepmind. Built and deployed an ML training execution engine across the organization and worked closely with research scientists to decide on architecture/design.

Research Engineer

Summer Instructor at Lakeland Christian School for student robotics workshop
Led instruction on the basics of programming in Java and the fundamentals of 3D CAD Design

Summer Robotics Instructor

Intern under the Counter Abuse organization within Google Cloud. Built a standalone service to extract metadata from data silos for faster and more efficient search indexing. The service was (and still is) used by teams such as Google Docs, Ads, and Gmail.

Founder & CEO of Highlight, a Y Combinator–backed company acquired by LaunchDarkly (Catamorphic Inc.) in March 2025. Over four years, raised $7M+ in venture funding, built and led the engineering and sales teams, and scaled the business to a seven-figure annual run rate, growing 200%+ year over year at the time of acquisition. Customers included Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aurora (NASDAQ: AUR), the New York Times, and many high-growth startups.

Co-founder, CEO (Acq. by LaunchDarkly)

Director-level product leader at LaunchDarkly, building out the Observability practice and growing the former Highlight team. We are establishing the product from Highlight.io as a standalone product line, partnering with sales and marketing on go-to-market, adoption, and positioning alongside LaunchDarkly’s flagship feature management platform.

Product

Indie Hacker interested in databases!

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