Resume

My professional experience, education, and skills

Work Experience

CEO & Co-Founder

Mango Health (Y-Combinator: W24 Batch)

Nov 2022 - Present

  • Scaled a mental health platform enabling 1,400+ individuals to start therapy with human therapists or AI-powered assistants, focusing on OCD treatment
  • Designed and built the MVP and early app iterations on Next.js, PostgreSQL, and Heroku, integrating custom LLM assistants for backend data management and user interactions
  • Raised $1.3M in seed funding and led product development from concept to deployment

Software Engineer, Meta

Facebook App, News Tab (Native Templates/PHP)

Sept 2020 - Nov 2022

  • "See Less Negative News" Control - Led PM, design, cross-functional approval; empowers users to remove polarizing feed content. Currently activated by 3M+ people in the United States.
  • Led development of 10+ front-end projects, including creator branding (profile sheet, news context, verified checkmarks), a news summary unit, user controls, and integrity projects (stopping malicious actors/bots)
  • Mentored 3 new grad hires and 2 industry hires, onboarding them to Meta and our team. Also participated in the interview process 15+ times as a loop guide, recruiting partner, and through successful sell calls.

Messenger App, Video Chat (iOS Objective-C)

  • Technical POC for VC new entry-point - Led execution, experiment setup, metric reports, iteration, launch.

Software Engineering Intern, Capital One

June - August 2019

  • Designed and built a full-stack network automation application from scratch for Capital One's proxy servers
  • Saved approx. 200 hrs of work per year, utilizing NodeJS, Python, PostgreSQL, and Docker

Education

Princeton University

Computer Science Major, Entrepreneurship Minor

Graduation June 2020

Cumulative GPA: 3.588
Coursework: PHP, Java, C, Python, Swift, AngularJS, ReactJS, GitHub, PostgreSQL, HTML/CSS, Verilog.

University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Visiting Student

January - May 2019

Courses: Computer Security, Reasoning & Agents (Haskell), British Politics: The Beginning of the End?

East Aurora High School

Valedictorian, Buffalo, NY

Graduation 2016

Third Place, 2015 National Gannon Programming Competition: "Reverse Resistor Calculator"

Projects

Tech Policy Research - Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy

Sept 2019 - May 2020

AI In Healthcare - Whitepaper for FDA detailing benefits + drawbacks of ML in decision-support software.

Facial Recognition in Public Safety - Recommendations to NY legislators and police chiefs on FR tech.

Nutritional Monitoring Web Application - TigerEats Inc.

August 2018 - Feb 2019

Built a web app using ReactJS, MongoDB, Flask, and Heroku that allows coaches to view a student's meal intake, make recommendations, set goals, and view dietary analytics with an intuitive, touch user interface.

Extracurriculars & Activities

Member of The Princeton Trustee Committee on Honorary Degrees

Sept 2018 - June 2020

One of two students selected to rep. the undergraduate body during the consideration of potential recipients.

Board Founder and Organizer, Cross Country Crusade 5K

2014-2021

• Founded a nonprofit organization where I regularly communicate with gov't officials, local and national sponsors, and lead a team of volunteers on race day. Have raised over $18,000 for a local cancer charity, Camp Good Days & Special Times.

Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America

2012 - 2016

Built "Digital Information Kiosk" for my hometown. Also elected Senior Patrol Leader - led troop.

Interests

Breakdancing, scuba diving, skiing, electric guitar, Smash Ultimate, poker, soccer, and comedy-writing.

Contact

Skills

Programming Languages

PHP, Java, C, Python, Swift

Web Technologies

AngularJS, ReactJS, HTML/CSS, Next.js

Tools & Platforms

GitHub, PostgreSQL, Heroku, MongoDB, Flask

Other

Verilog, Hardware Design