I'm a software engineer, entrepreneur, and consultant specializing in AI and infrastructure. I co-founded Vassar AI with fellow MIT alum Ali Mohammad, where we help companies move from AI ambitions to actually shipped products.
My path into software wasn't entirely straight—I started at the University of California, Irvine as a Dance major before pivoting to Information and Computer Sciences. The switch was smoother than it sounds as I'd been writing code since I was 14. From UCI I went on to earn both a Master's and a Doctorate from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, advised by Randall Davis. My Master's work was the user interface for an autonomous robotic forklift. Ideas from that project show up today in autonomous vehicle interfaces at companies like Waymo and Tesla. My doctoral dissertation was CoMo, a smart whiteboard that held a structured conversation with a user (via speech and sketch) to collect examples of a data structure manipulation, then synthesized working C code from those examples and animated it for verification. Before "AI orchestration" was a term, CoMo was already solving the same architectural problem: an orchestration layer sitting between a user and an AI backend, managing conversation flow, deciding when to ask for clarification, selecting and retrying synthesis tools, and closing the verification loop.
After MIT, I joined Twice Clothes, a fashion resale startup that was acquired by eBay, where I spent three and a half years as a software engineer, engineering manager, and research scientist across several teams. I then spent a year as lead engineer at Silo Technologies before co-founding Vassar AI.
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