My Journey
My work in iOS, web development, and AI.
- Built a voice-first brain health iOS app for women in perimenopause that reached 10,000+ App Store users; worked with the founder on user interviews and roadmap priorities.
- Implemented offline journaling, health data integration, and on-device speech transcription in the SwiftUI app.
- Developed a web dashboard for therapy practices to review patient journals, log billable hours, manage alerts, and organize staff, alongside internal operations tools.
- Added document retrieval with pgvector and automatic fallback between AI models; reduced 95th-percentile time to first token from 1.8s to 280ms and model costs per user by approximately 50%.
- Maintained HIPAA-compliant AWS infrastructure with 99.9% backend uptime. Reduced app cold-start time by 340ms and peak memory usage by 42%, and improved battery life by 28%.
- Built audio streaming and caching for NYX, an app for comparing unreleased music through anonymous listening tests.
- Integrated Apple Pay, Coinbase, and MetaMask payments, and added music discovery and artist perk redemption.
- Migrated 50,000+ users from SAP Gigya to Firebase Auth with zero downtime or data loss; reduced sign-in time by 40%.
- Kept iOS and backend data in sync using message queues and caching; maintained 95th-percentile latency below 200ms and reduced redundant work by 35%.
- Built a support dashboard for troubleshooting sign-in issues and managing two-factor authentication and single sign-on; reduced incident resolution time by 60%.
- Built APIs in Python with Flask for SHELDUS, a natural disaster dataset covering 1960 onward.
- Worked with ASU researchers to improve data retrieval, visualization, and reporting.
- Taught MATLAB and Python in FSE 100: Introduction to Engineering.
- Guided student projects using Lego and Raspberry Pi.
- Minor: Cybersecurity.
- Coursework: Applied Cryptography, Data Processing at Scale, Statistical Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Software Security.
- Migrated Python services for FDAlytics and iQuality from REST to GraphQL; removed redundant database queries to increase throughput by 20%.
- Led data categorization on a six-engineer team, improving search recall and response times with Azure Cognitive Search.
- Added automated tests and required release checks, and rolled out changes in stages; reduced deployment incidents by 50%.
- Developed LiveShield to bring network scan results, vulnerability data, and live alerts into one security dashboard; reduced time spent triaging alerts by approximately 40%.
- Built a job scheduling and inventory management app for the Zirconium Fabrication Plant.
- Built Flask APIs and database queries for scheduling and inventory data.
- Built a healthcare prototype in C# and ASP.NET that used anonymous IDs for sharing patient data.
- Coursework: Computation and Automata Theory, Cyber Law, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Image Processing, and iOS Application Development.