Career Journey
Experience
From founding a fintech startup to researching at NASA, here's where I've been.
PoliStock
CEO & Co-Founder
Democratizing institutional-grade market intelligence for retail investors
- Built a financial intelligence SaaS platform monitoring 20+ volatility sources 24/7, analyzing 5,000+ stocks with real-time alerts in under 1 minute, giving retail traders hedge-fund-speed market awareness.
- Pioneered Natural Language Orders (NLO): users set buy/sell triggers using plain English, with automatic execution when conditions match across 27+ major brokerages including Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
- Secured backing from Gener8tor's gBETA program; scaled to 200+ active users with $250K+ invested via platform insights, a 4.8-star rating across 200 reviews, priced at $9.99/month.
- Led technical architecture integrating SEC filings, Reddit discussions, financial news (CNBC, NY Times), and breaking events, with AI-powered event monitoring and bank-level encryption for brokerage integration.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Research Intern
Space research at one of the world's leading scientific organizations
- Conducting research at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on cutting-edge space science and technology.
Trauma THOMPSON
Machine Learning Research
AI Copilot for First Response Medicine at Purdue University
- Built YOLOv11 computer vision models for medical tools with 96% mAP@[0.5:0.95]; applied quantized models and focal loss to handle critical class imbalances in medical data.
- Slashed data annotation needs by 80% with an active learning pipeline using uncertainty sampling (PyTorch + Ray for distributed processing).
- Crafted a mixed reality system for HoloLens that visualizes ML inferences in real time; contributed statistical analysis to peer-reviewed research papers.
Tech4Change
Technical Lead
Technical leadership for a social-impact organization
- Led technical development and architecture for social impact initiatives, guiding teams through product decisions and engineering challenges.
BMek TECH
ML Engineer Intern
Diving deep into data science and machine learning algorithms
- Engineered clustering algorithms (K-means, DBSCAN, GMMs) for customer segmentation, achieving a 0.78 silhouette score.
- Implemented DQN (reinforcement learning), gradient boosting, random forests, and CNN/LSTM models for time-series prediction.
- Developed a stacked ensemble framework that significantly improved medical data prediction accuracy.