swe @ microsoft, cs @ umich learning and having fun
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CASE SEARCH
Case law databases are terrible - outdated interfaces, search engines from 90s, subpar results. So I’ve built a better one for SCOTUS opinions using Cohere embeddings (totally for free btw).
The Alexandria Index
Creating and open-sourcing pipelines and embeddings of the most important and interesting datasets out there. Contributed embeddings and improved search for Project Tenet.
TENSOR CHURCH - AI Religion Chat
Designed and developed from scratch an AI note-taker that creates intelligent summaries for your meetings. A small blog post about it.
Struggled a ton with AWS and Azure, but learned quite a bit about deployment, DevOps, and Docker in the process. Batch processing for the win like it’s 1960s.
V1 Michigan
Worked with a bunch of cool people to organize events, write newsletter, and recruit people for the community of students passionate about startups. That’s how I got interested in the startup world.
Organized V1 Startup Fair, one of the largest student-run career fairs, attracting 400+ students, 16 startups, and $7,000 in funding.
Participated in Product Studio and created an mvp of personal crm for students.
Built and designed a simple sampler in Next.js inspired by GarageBand and AKAI MPC 2000XL aesthetics with some of the sounds from my producer library.
Got tired of all the Twitter garbage ads and useless UI and wrote a Chrome extension to clean it up. Use it myself every time I’m on Twitter.
The Hello World of ML in Jupyter Notebook with ~98% accuracy.
Built a much better search for UMich's club directory. Sold to Peervine. (inactive)
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<aside> 🏗️ Work
Microsoft - Software Engineer, July 2024 - Present
Azure Data - Microsoft Fabric
Shade - Software Engineer Intern, June 2023 - August 2023
Helped to build the file explorer for creatives and push it to the public release which led to contracts with some of the largest VFX studios and tech companies in the world. Implemented facial recognition and audio analysis pipelines. Worked on audio semantic search and other cool features for music producers across the whole stack.
Shade | The File Explorer for Creatives
Desai Accelerator - Software Development Intern, May 2022 - August 2022
Executed on critical technical projects for 5 early-stage startups leading to cost reductions, new funding and first revenue. Some of the work included redeveloping frontend for Django web app and React Native mobile app, implementing SSO for Microsoft Word add-in, enabling subscription functionality by integrating with Stripe, building automated test infrastructure with Cypress and adding push notifications using Firebase Cloud Messaging.
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<aside> 🔗 Links
music twitter linkedin github replit soundcloud substack goodreads letterboxd resume meet with me [email protected]
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<aside> 🏔️ Hiking
Mount Rainier, Mount Saint Helens summits
Mount Whitney, 19 hours, 2km elevation gain, 4.2 km, didn’t reach the peak thanks shitty gear but made it up the chute (40-45 degree incline), causally finished in 2023 Badwater 135 ultramarathon, if you don’t believe check out the official album - closer to the end of the page, you will not miss us
Yosemite National Park, temperature dropped by 10 ℃, so we just stayed in the Valley and did all the waterfalls and main trails in the vicinity, fun times
Kenozersky National Park, being eaten alive by mosquitos, admiring old wooden chapels and monasteries, getting really sick midway, surviving
Caucasus Mountains, climbing mountains up to 2 km, standing under waterfalls, exploring huge underground caves, thermal baths, great time
Lake Saimaa, canoeing for 7 days and 120 km, saunas everywhere, beautiful islands, excellent vibes, first time backpacking
There are a ton of smaller backpacking trips (2-3 days) and countless hikes that I did, as you can see I can’t get enough of this stuff
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