Experience

University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2023 - Present

  https://depts.washington.edu/machines/ https://depts.washington.edu/machines/



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Sep 2018 - Sep 2023

  Currently: Rapid prototyping and ML/CV for Project Starline.Past: Fullstack engineering on Google Health. Mobile app dev for the Next Billion Users on Files by Google and YouTube Video Ads. I get my kicks doing user and interaction research on the side.

• Engineering Resident

  • Sep 2017 - Sep 2018



MIT Media Lab

• United States
• Research Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Research Affiliate

  • Jul 2021 - Feb 2022

  Working with David Sun Kong at the Community Biotechnology Initiative (https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/community-bio/overview/). Fall 2021 TA for MAS.S68: Ancient Future Technology: Coordinated course logistics, helped review student projects and assignments, created and managed class blog, designed visual assets and course site (https://www.ancientfuturetech.org/). Working with David Sun Kong at the Community Biotechnology Initiative (https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/community-bio/overview/). Fall 2021 TA for MAS.S68: Ancient Future Technology: Coordinated course logistics, helped review student projects and assignments, created and managed class blog, designed visual assets and course site (https://www.ancientfuturetech.org/).



Carnegie Mellon University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Intern

  • Jan 2021 - Sep 2021

  First author of paper: Patterns and Opportunities for the Design of Human-Plant Interaction (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3532106.3533555) Worked with: http://morphingmatter.cs.cmu.edu/ First author of paper: Patterns and Opportunities for the Design of Human-Plant Interaction (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3532106.3533555) Worked with: http://morphingmatter.cs.cmu.edu/



UC Berkeley College of Engineering

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Embedded Software Engineer on MakerPass System

  • Jan 2017 - Sep 2017



Berkeley Institute of Design

• Undergraduate Researcher on LINC Project

  • Aug 2016 - May 2017

  Worked on software and paper writing tasks for the LINC project -- a system which aims to bring more traditional craftsmanship practices into the process of digital fabrication. Worked on software and paper writing tasks for the LINC project -- a system which aims to bring more traditional craftsmanship practices into the process of digital fabrication.



Twitch

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineering Intern

  • May 2016 - Aug 2016

  Software development and interface design on the Video Networking team! Software development and interface design on the Video Networking team!



Twitter

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineering Intern

  • Jun 2015 - Aug 2015



Hackers@Berkeley

• UC Berkeley

• Officer - Media, Publicity, and Workshops

  • Jan 2014 - Aug 2015

  Fall 2014: Taught "Intro to d3.js" workshop (https://github.com/cowabunga11115/intro_to_d3js) Current Responsibilities: - Conduct media-related operations such as apparel design, graphic design, publicity, and marketing - Teach workshops - Lab assist at various H@B events (Intro to Front-End Web Design workshop, ABC Hackathon, Intro to Git) Fall 2014: Taught "Intro to d3.js" workshop (https://github.com/cowabunga11115/intro_to_d3js) Current Responsibilities: - Conduct media-related operations such as apparel design, graphic design, publicity, and marketing - Teach workshops - Lab assist at various H@B events (Intro to Front-End Web Design workshop, ABC Hackathon, Intro to Git)



CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Designer for AppCivist (a SocialApps Lab project)

  • Sep 2014 - May 2015

  I'm currently working under Professor James Holston at the SocialApps Lab to design and develop a participatory decision-making app called AppCivist. You can find a mock-up at: http://citris-uc.org/social-apps-lab/project/appcivist/ Current Responsibilities: - Graphic and web design - Helping to conceptualize and design a versioning and voting protocol I'm currently working under Professor James Holston at the SocialApps Lab to design and develop a participatory decision-making app called AppCivist. You can find a mock-up at: http://citris-uc.org/social-apps-lab/project/appcivist/ Current Responsibilities: - Graphic and web design - Helping to conceptualize and design a versioning and voting protocol



University of California, Berkeley

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• CS61A Course Lab Assistant

  • Dec 2013 - Jul 2014

  CS61A is Cal's introductory CS class, required for all CS and EECS majors, among others. - Conducted private tutoring for basic course concepts (abstraction, python, environment diagrams, recursion) - Guided students in completing homework, labs, and projects - Taught students how to use Git and GitHub CS61A is Cal's introductory CS class, required for all CS and EECS majors, among others. - Conducted private tutoring for basic course concepts (abstraction, python, environment diagrams, recursion) - Guided students in completing homework, labs, and projects - Taught students how to use Git and GitHub