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My thoughts and learnings from my MBA and diving deep into AI.
kellogg / mccormick'26
available · spring 2027
Built satellites. Then the screens on your flight. Now figuring out what to tackle next.
I built circuit boards for satellites, then ran R&D for the screens on every airplane seatback. Now I'm at Kellogg learning how to build the businesses around these products. Most days that means AI solutions that work for the people who actually use them.
§ 01the arc
Arc.
Learning how to build AI products that work for the people who use them.
Harnessing the business acumen of a Kellogg MBA with the technical expertise of a McCormick AI master's to make AI products that work.
- Vice President of Education for the Kellogg AI club, leading workshops to upskill the student body
- Learning in classes like: AI Leaders, Tech Product Management, Applied AI for Business, and Data Intensive Systems
- Interning at Amazon on the Alexa AI team in summer 2026 as part of the Amazon Leadership Accelerator program
Stood up the R&D Department to design what comes next on seatback screens.
Created new innovative experiences working with some of the top airlines around the world and transformed internal workflows using AI.
- Three first-to-market features productized 0 to 1, $10M expected revenue
- Firm-wide gen-AI chatbot plus AI-assisted internal tools that cut content Quality assurance labor by 90%, ~$200k/year saved
- Collaborated cross-functionally across Engineering, product, marketing, sales, procurement, legal
- Built an in-person demo room for user testing and C-suite reviews
Designed circuit boards for next-gen satellites.
Worked on and designed circuit boards using cutting edge tech (RF, FPGAs, high-speed digital).
- Lead 8-person team on accelerated next-gen satellite board design, integrating high frequency RF and FPGA
- Improved LEAN processes which touched 500+ engineers, cut cost and cycle time
- Upskilled 200+ engineers by facilitating networking and speaking events as a mentorship council member
Computer vision for flooded streets.
Developed a single-camera CV pipeline for real-time flood detection as part of the Array of Things, the City of Chicago's IoT urban-climate project.
- Fourier-transform temporal features + LBP texture, classified per pixel
- Deployable on the existing Array of Things camera mesh
§ 02scratchpad
Scratchpad, in progress.
§ 03shipped
Things I've shipped.
2025iOS · ml
Doc Reader
iOS app, on-device text-to-speech with 20+ languages in 40+ voices to read PDFs in a natural voice, free forever.
swiftswiftUIkokoroMLXclaude code
app store 2025full stackGradGather
Curates small groups of three or four grad students for casual meetups, then runs the matching, the chats, and the reminders so it actually happens.
next.jsreact nativefastAPIsupabasecelery
live 2024uspto · 12468415Software-definable IFE controllers
Reconfigurable handheld controller with dynamically remappable touch elements. One hardware design, many functions, configured in software.
hardwaresystem archUXpatent writing
patent 2023aws · diffusionStable Diffusion QR codes
QR codes that look like images instead of QR codes. Custom ControlNet pipeline for scannability, AWS backend (Lambda, SQS, GPU EC2, DynamoDB) for scale.
pythonawsstable diffusioncontrolnet
github 2017cv · publicFlood-water detection from a single camera
Pipeline that turns any street-camera video stream into a real-time flood detector. Fourier temporal features + local-binary-pattern texture.
pythonopencvscikit-learn
github § 04off-hours
Things that I do that aren't work.
On the wheel
flip to see the real ones4 pieces
1 / 5
norris student center · most pieces survive
On the wall
flip to see the real ones3 climbs
1 / 4
V3/V4 bouldering · occasional top-rope
On the couch
flip to see the real ones3 books
1 / 4
most recent · paperback, not kindle
§ 06how to reach me
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