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Work Experience

• Senior Software Engineer, Tavus (YC Summer '21)

  Nov, 2025 - Present

  Building agentic capabilities for interactive hyper-realistic video avatars

• Lead Software Engineer, Hypotenuse AI (YC Summer '20)

  Jan, 2021 - Aug, 20254 years 6 months

  First full-time hire, owned engineering end-to-end at Hypotenuse AI. Architecting and scaling AI-powered content and image pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps workflows while mentoring the team and working with product to drive reliable, high-impact releases.

  • Owned architecture, reliability, and roadmap for AI content systems at scale (1M+ users, P99 <500ms, >99.999% availability) - balancing cost, velocity, and product tradeoffs

  • Established engineering standards and mentored 25+ engineers; drove team-wide velocity improvements (70% faster CI, 50% faster PR cycles) and instituted observability/incident practices that cut MTTA to <60s.

  • Accountable for platform economics and operational excellence - delivered 30% infrastructure cost reduction while scaling LLM and media workloads to enterprise SLAs.

• Computer Vision Engineer, Qritive

  Oct, 2018 - Dec, 20182 months

  Developed Object Detection and Instance Segmentation models for use on gigapixel-scale medical images

  • Technologies: Python, Keras, TensorFlow, OpenCV, OpenSlide

• Computer Vision Engineer, Red Dot Robotics

  May, 2018 - Sep, 20184 months

  Developed real-time Object Detection and Tracking models for deployment on autonomous vehicles

  • Technologies: Python, Keras, TensorFlow, OpenCV

Skills

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