Work

Lead the AI initiative and Platform & Integration team at Stellic, the degree-planning and student-success platform for 100+ universities and 1M+ students, where I'm known internally as the 'AI Czar.' Solo-built our internal product-knowledge bot, a side project now used by ~40% of the company daily (10,000+ answers in its first 90 days) that gets new hires answering deep product questions from day one and triages bugs, Linear tickets, and technical Slack threads. On the platform side, built the AI agents that generate the student-success and compliance reports staff once assembled by hand over days, now produced on demand, grounding them in semantic search over Elasticsearch instead of the default text-to-SQL agent, with the evals that keep their output trustworthy at scale.

Built a Python model that re-weighted tech-stock portfolios from signals an LLM extracted from earnings calls and 10-Ks, then backtested whether those language-model signals beat the market after costs, isolating where LLM-read fundamentals added genuine alpha and where they didn't.

Owned the payments platform at Level, an insurtech reinventing employer-sponsored dental and vision benefits. Built a machine-learning system that scored each charge's decline risk and re-timed retries to when a card was most likely to clear, cutting card declines 20%, speeding processing 60%, and lifting collections 70%; a workflow redesign then absorbed a 10x increase in users with no added support headcount.

Redesigned GelPOINT Path, Applied Medical's flagship surgical-access device, simplifying its component assembly to take 30% out of unit cost while growing sales 11%. Built Python tooling and yield-prediction models (30% more accurate) that pulled days of manual data work off the manufacturing line each month.

Co-founded InfoPost and grew an AI-curated news app to 50,000+ daily users by personalizing digests around stories mainstream apps under-covered, lifting daily activity 50%; raised $80,000, ran the user research, and steered the company to acquisition.