Product · AI · Builder

I've sat on both sides
of the table, sourcing
startups and building my own.

CS student at UIUC, product builder, and lifelong tinkerer,
currently shipping AI-powered products from idea to deployed reality.

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"I grew up curious about how things work, then how to make them work better."

I got curious about AI back in middle school, watching it start to reshape industries. That curiosity took me from a research lab, training machine learning models to catch heart disease early from cardiac signals, into product roles at AI-driven startups, most recently helping a Peter Thiel-backed identity-verification company sharpen its APIs and grow. Now I'm continuously building, still chasing the AI product that lets me put that impact at scale.

I thrive in fast, ambiguous environments: finding the opportunity, building the solution, and iterating on what the data tells me. Outside of internships, I'm usually deep in a side project, most recently Findster.ai, teaching an app to recognize lost belongings the way a person would, and before that, co-founding Cheer, an award-winning team-management app for youth sports. Fair warning: I'm an extreme perfectionist and borderline unreasonably detail-oriented, so if a button is 2px off, I will notice, and I will fix it.

Where I've worked

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Product Operations InternFirst American Financial Corporation

Jun 2026 – Present   {{ expFirstamMark }}

Building an intelligent voice-of-customer pilot for Endpoint and T3 Sequoia to structure fragmented feedback; creating MCP/CLI connector workflows with Cursor Skills that cut feedback search time 20%.

VP Project AcquisitionProduct Space Illinois

Jan 2026 – Present   {{ expPsiVpMark }}

Sourcing cutting-edge product-focused projects for our chapter to partner with, vetting founders and scoping engagements before handing off to project teams.

Portfolio Pilot

YC Founder

An AI-powered financial advisor helping investors track, analyze, and optimize their portfolios.

Coldreach

YC23

An AI sales platform that identifies ready-to-buy leads and automates research-driven outreach.

Symbal.ai

Founders Fund

An enterprise AI platform that trains and deploys high-performing models for real-world workflows.

HelloFun!

A party game brand creating engaging social experiences for friends, families, and couples.

GigHQ.ai

An AI-powered job search copilot that tracks applications, surfaces opportunities, and automates busywork.

Chroma

A creative wellness platform offering coloring books and a digital app designed to make relaxation more fun and accessible.

IDXExchange

A real estate technology platform combining MLS search, market analytics, and AI-powered property insights.

Product & Growth InternSymbal.ai

Aug 2025 – Jan 2026   {{ expSymbalMark }}

Owned GTM experimentation for this Peter Thiel–backed, $4M ARR company; ran outreach across 500+ HR/TA leaders, lifting pipeline efficiency 7%; built analytics dashboards to catch demo→signup drop-off.

Product Manager LeadProduct Space Illinois

Feb 2025 – Jan 2026   {{ expPsiPmMark }}

Led product discovery for ThirdLayer (YC25); directed user research & feature prioritization that lifted engagement 3% for Vouch Vault; organized UIUC's first Product Hackathon, 130+ attendees, 30+ sponsors.

ThirdLayer (Dex), client engagement, PM Lead

Ran a 12-week engagement stress-testing Dex, ThirdLayer's in-browser AI assistant. Highlights from the work:

Vouch Vault, client engagement, feature prioritization

Designed this final-recommendations slide as part of the feature-prioritization work that lifted engagement 3%.

Product Management InternAiPrise (YC S22)

May – Aug 2025   {{ expAipriseMark }}

Evaluated 10+ identity-verification APIs and ML SDKs; built comparison frameworks and improved mobile onboarding UI for document capture and liveness detection.

Entrepreneurial Advisor InternTech Entrepreneur Center

Feb – May 2025   {{ expTecMark }}

Advised 8+ startups on strategy and pitch for the Cozad New Venture Challenge; redesigned Tandem's narrative on the way to their 1st-place $50K win; supported kWh and Voca Health, contributing to $70K+ in total funding.

Things I've built

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Findster.ai

Solo-built lost & found app with AI image matching via OpenAI CLIP.

Findster.ai

React Native · Next.js 14 · TypeScript · OpenAI CLIP for image matching. Fully my own project, authored the PRD, built geolocation/auth/data schema, and evaluated the ethical tradeoffs of automated matching.

findster.ai

Cheer

Co-founded team-management app for youth sports. Designed the reports, built it tech-wise.

Cheer

Co-Founder & CEO. Team communication, Stripe-powered payments, event scheduling & an AI chat assistant for coaches, parents, and athletes. 1st place DECA California & Silicon Valley; Top 10 internationally, DECA Internationals '23 & '24.

Also built at hackathons: Shopix, a visual product-search AI app (team project, UIUC Product Hackathon), designed an AI recommendation flow with NLP review filtering and chatbot-driven search.

Published research

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Early Heart Disease Detection in Canines through ML Classification of LBBB

Cambridge Centre for International Research · AI for Healthcare Researcher, 2023

Trained KNN, CNN, RF, and Naive Bayes models in Python to detect heart disease from echocardiograms, building an end-to-end pipeline from preprocessing through model training, evaluation, and deployment-ready outputs.

Achievements

DECA

  • Top Ten International Finalist, Business Growth Plan, ICDC 2024 & 2023
  • 1st Place, Business Growth Plan, SCDC 2024 (ICDC Qualifier)
  • 1st Place, Business Growth Plan, SVCDC 2023
  • 2nd Place, Food Marketing Services, SCDC 2024 (ICDC Qualifier)
  • 2nd Place, Business Growth Plan, SVCDC 2024 & SCDC 2023
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Skills & tools

Product

User Research User Empathy PRDs MVP Scoping Roadmapping Feature Prioritization Experimentation KPI Design Product Analytics Stakeholder Management Agile Collaboration Cross-functional Leadership GTM Strategy Founder Vetting Startup Advising Event & Sponsor Ops

AI & Data

OpenAI CLIP LLM Applications AI Product Prototyping Data Workflows API Integrations Data Modeling Backend Schema Design Automation (Zapier) Data Analysis Machine Learning Python

Tools

Figma Notion JIRA Cursor Replit Bolt.ai Zapier Frontend Prototyping API & Platform Eval.