Experience

CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder & President

  • May 2018 - 5 years 8 months

  San Francisco Bay Area Co-founded the Carnegie Mellon entrepreneurship community growing it into a global community with 7k+ active alumni. Focused on supporting the next generation of CMU founders who will change the world. www.cmute.io Launched several communities from 0 to 1: - Future Founders - cmute.io/future-founder - ML & Fintech communities - https://tartanx.co - CMU accelerator - cmute.io/build-sprint - CMU Founders community (top founders across CMU) Other milestones: • Founded… Show more Co-founded the Carnegie Mellon entrepreneurship community growing it into a global community with 7k+ active alumni. Focused on supporting the next generation of CMU founders who will change the world. www.cmute.io Launched several communities from 0 to 1: - Future Founders - cmute.io/future-founder - ML & Fintech communities - https://tartanx.co - CMU accelerator - cmute.io/build-sprint - CMU Founders community (top founders across CMU) Other milestones: • Founded in 2018 • Have grown community to 7k+ members • Recruited and managed high-performance team of ~40+ • Drive vision & strategy across team & community • Formalized community playbook and launched chapters across major tech cities including NYC, LA, BOS, SEA, DC • Started international chapters in Middle East & Asia • Started and actively manage Slack community w/ 3.5k+ community members • Actively engage and involve CMU's most successful alumni including those below • Maintain close partnerships with CMU and other orgs Few of alumni supporting our community: - Aditya Agarwal: CTO @ Dropbox - Matt Rogers: Founder @ Nest - Aaron Rankin Co-Founder & CTO @ Sprout Social - Sid Viswanathan: Co-Founder & President @ Truepill - Justin Zhu Co-Founder & CEO @ Iterable - Eugene Marinelli: Co-founder & CTO, Blend - Hooman Radfar: Co-Founder & CEO @ Collective - Adam Gross - former CEO @ Heroku - Jon Gray - Founder & CEO @ Cask (acq Google) - Jason Franklin: Founding Managing Director @ WV Ventures - ... and many more www.cmute.io Show less



Slack

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Feb 2021 - Jan 2022

  Working on Slack Connect changing the way users communicate across different companies within Slack. Formerly on the Enterprise team helping Slack scale to support our biggest customers.

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 2019 - Jan 2021

  San Francisco Bay Area

• Associate Software Engineer

  • Jul 2018 - Jul 2019


On Deck
• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 200 - 300 Employee
• On Deck Fellow

  • Jan 2021 - Apr 2021


99 Tartans, LLC

• Associate

  • Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

  San Francisco Bay Area Leading angel syndicate for CMU alumni focusing on identifying the highest potential early-stage Carnegie Mellon University affiliated companies and helping them succeed through access to capital and networks - www.99tartans.com



TEDxCMU

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President

  • Jun 2015 - May 2018

  Greater Pittsburgh Area Part of founding team and led team of 23 CMU students to organize TEDx conference scaling it to an event with 400+ attendees and $20k+ in funding. We bring in the world’s most bold and innovative thinkers to share their ideas and create the ultimate learning experience for the community. www.tedxcmu.org



CMU Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Association

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Board Member

  • Jun 2014 - May 2018

  Greater Pittsburgh Area Fostering innovation and entrepreneurship at CMU • Led campus engagement organizing networking events & trips to local startups • Hack-a-Startup: an event where developers, designers, and business students come together to hack on a startup idea over the course of a weekend • CMU Shark Tank: college startups from around the nation pitch to investors



Harmony

• United States
• Professional Services

• Software Engineering Intern

  • Mar 2018 - Apr 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area Short internship at 5-person startup: Worked on new features with ReactJS



Human Capital

• Armenia
• Human Resources Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CMU Founder & Campus Director

  • Apr 2017 - Mar 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area Founded CMU campus team and led team effort to identify the best engineers at Carnegie Mellon and connect them with high-impact startups including Robinhood, Airtable, and several stealth startups.

• Software Engineering Intern

  • Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  San Francisco, California • Directed the design, development, and deployment of dunning feature that reminds customers who haven't paid their invoices • Coordinated with PM and engineers to build end-to-end solution • Credit card dunning feature brought in $1 million+ in revenue within first month of launch



Sprout Social, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineering Intern

  • Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  Greater Chicago Area • Directed the design, implementation, and deployment of the backend for a new image resizing feature using Django and Dropwizard • Service resized 100,000+ images within the first 24 hours in production and is used by 30,000 customers daily



Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction Institute

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• UX/HCI Research

  • Oct 2015 - Dec 2015

  Carnegie Mellon University Project: Customized GitHub Search Engine Conducted in-person user studies and then redesigned application based upon research findings.



Testive, Inc

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Management Intern

  • Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  Boston, MA App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/testive-grader/id1208557881 • Managed app through product lifecycle from initial concept through design, development, and launch • Worked with VP of Engineering to develop product strategy, vision, and roadmap • Built as a webapp using Phonegap with Polymer.js and Django backend • Developed custom computer vision algorithm from scratch in Python with OpenCV

• SEO Analyst Intern

  • Jul 2014 - Aug 2014

  Directed company’s SEO strategy to optimize website for search engines



TEDxYouth@CCHS

• Founder and President

  • Sep 2013 - Jun 2014

  Lawrence, MA Inspired and led team of 25 students to organize first TEDx event at Central Catholic High School with mission to inspire people in the school and local community to take actions towards their dreams and make a difference in their community. http://www.tedxyouthcchs.com/ •Found TEDx club at my high school (with exclusive license from TED) •Oversaw all logisitics, marketing, finance, speaker curation, sponsorship, media, TED relations • Met with various companies to attain… Show more Inspired and led team of 25 students to organize first TEDx event at Central Catholic High School with mission to inspire people in the school and local community to take actions towards their dreams and make a difference in their community. http://www.tedxyouthcchs.com/ •Found TEDx club at my high school (with exclusive license from TED) •Oversaw all logisitics, marketing, finance, speaker curation, sponsorship, media, TED relations • Met with various companies to attain sponsorship of event • Recruited speakers and worked with them to develop their talk Show less