My professional and academic experience is listed below. Feel free to reach out if anything sounds interesting!
Penn's Master of Computer and Information Technology (MCIT) program is a professional graduate degree program focused on computer science fundamentals.
In addition to core coursework like algorithms, data structures, and operating system programming, I enjoyed taking electives in AI, natural language processing, big data, and static software analysis (LLVM, CodeQL).
Sample projects:
▪ Recurrent neural network model in PyTorch for classification of city names by country
▪ Static analysis using CodeQL to find security vulnerabilities in open-source codebases
▪ Deep neural network & regression models to classify foods & predict nutrition scores
▪ Assembler and disassembler for LC4 CPU, a Penn-developed simulated CPU architecture
Designed and developed an event-driven service to upstream millions of Twilio SMS delivery status updates per week to business groups using Apache Kafka.
Redesigned an email archiving service to run serverless on AWS Lambda/SQS, reducing runtime by 67%.
Technologies used: Typescript, Python, Jest, AWS (Lambda, SQS, Dynamo), Apache Kafka, Atlassian Bamboo, Splunk
Kanary is a startup that scans the internet for customers' sensitive private information and automates the removal of that information from hundreds of data broker sites.
Implemented core member data monitoring and removal services in Go, extending a domain-specific language that made it easier for non-engineers to write application logic.
Increased data removal rates for largest data brokers by more than 40%, addressing backlogs for over 10,000 members.
Technologies used: Python, Go, Django, Postgres, Metabase
Echo Health Ventures is a top-quartile healthcare venture capital fund that invests on behalf of several large Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans.
Sourced, evaluated, and executed investments in Series A-D investment rounds for innovative healthcare technology companies.
Leader for Echo's virtual and convenient care investing practice; developed a particular expertise in healthcare services business models.
Selected investments: Dispatch Health, Genome Medical, TytoCare, Heartbeat Health
Structured and underwrote over $15 billion in taxable and tax-exempt debt for large healthcare systems.
Advised on M&A transactions for leading hospital systems; valued hospital assets using DCF and comparable companies analysis.
B.S in Economics from Wharton and a B.A. in Political Science from the School of Arts and Sciences.
Concentrated in Finance and Operations & Information Management, where I learned Python, Matlab, SQL, and VBA for use in developing business software.