Archive 03AboutTexas

A little context around the work.

When I’m not at a keyboard, I’m chasing beaches and mountains, hunting for fresh snow, or finding a coffee shop I’ll definitely become a regular at.

Family dinners, long drives with no real plan, dance and music that remind me where I come from. The people around the thing usually matter more than the thing itself.

Personal rule§ 01

The people around the thing usually matter more than the thing itself.

§ 02 — Chapters

Where I’ve been, where I am

  1. 2025—

    Current

    Senior Software Engineer I, Gen AI Platform

    Now on the Generative AI Platform team in San Francisco (remote). Building the substrate for prompt engineering, evaluation, and feature observability: native A/B testing, prompt replay tooling, a retention overhaul, and a UI-driven evaluation engine to standardize how we measure AI across the org. Mostly thinking about how to make AI work measurable instead of just shippable.

  2. 2023–24

    Senior

    Senior Software Engineer I, Calling

    Built call holds, transfers, and coaching on top of a push-based call control system. Designed a distributed rate-limiting allocator that increased test frequency 12× and cut COGS in half, and trimmed a hot database table by 90%. Started piping live call transcripts and customer runbooks into internal RAG systems for real-time recommendations.

  3. 2022–23

    First role

    Software Engineer, Calling

    Joined the calling team in Cambridge out of school. Migrated the core webhook system across 1M+ daily requests and helped build an event-driven platform for granular call control on Kafka, REST, and MySQL — abstracting vendor-specific logic into one extensible interface. First real exposure to production-grade APIs and resilient systems.

  4. 2021

    Early industry

    Hudl & IDA

    Two short stops in the same year: a QA internship at Hudl writing automated UI and API tests in Python, and a part-time stint rebuilding IDA’s React Native onboarding with Firebase auth. First real taste of shipping into something other people had to use.

  5. 2018–22

    Foundation

    Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Texas

    Studied ECE, mostly to be near the hardware side of things. Ended up writing more software than I ever wired up circuits — internships and side projects pulled me toward systems work for good.