Career
Experience
01
AI Engineering Intern
Feb 2026 - Present
- Simultaneously developed a full-stack web applicaiton and IOS app, contributing 10,000+ lines of production code.
- Working to develop AI models to assist in the recognition of clothing items in images, streamlining inventory management and the user experience.
02
Software Engineering Intern
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
- Refactored the website to leverage SSR and SSG techniques, reducing client-side bundle size by 68% and improving initial page load time from 2.8s to 0.9s.
- Developed YOLO computer vision pipeline for automated TV display recognition in retail stores, achieving 30+ FPS throughput with sub-500ms latency through OpenCV preprocessing; technology acquired by Taiv (YC W20)
- Engineered a neural network audio classifier using MFCC, mel-spectrogram, chroma, and tonnetz features using librosa, achieving 92% accuracy with a 3-layer dense architecture optimized through 64-epoch training
03
Charity CEO and Lead Developer
Baobab|Toronto, ON
Dec 2024 - Aug 2025
- Built and deployed a full-stack MERN donation platform serving 10 charitable organizations with 90+ active users, contributing 9K+ lines of production code that facilitated $1,000+ in donations
- Implemented JWT-based authentication with bcrypt password hashing and RBAC protecting 50+ API endpoints while maintaining sub-100ms average response time
- Optimized MongoDB schema with compound indexes on 3 core collections achieving 40% faster query performance and supporting 10x data volume scalability through denormalization strategies