about me
I'm a Full Stack Software Engineer and Georgia Tech OMSCS student who approaches applications as complete systems, from the database architecture to the end-user experience.
My path to software engineering wasn't traditional. I spent my early career in marketing and design, client services, and running my own private nutrition counseling practice. It was actually that practice that changed everything. Frustrated by the lack of effective, data-driven tools available for my clients, I thought, "What if I just build something better?" That question led me down a rabbit hole into computer science, and I haven't looked back.
Since that pivot, I earned my BS in CS, started my Master's at Georgia Tech (focusing on Machine Learning and AI), and recently completed a Software Engineering Internship at Rocket. It was a great full-circle moment: I started there years ago as a graphic design intern and returned as a software engineer, architecting internal support tools, bridging enterprise microservices, and independently shipping features for a high-volume team.
Right now I'm building Forager, a full-stack ecological intelligence app that identifies wild plants from photos and streams safety data in real time. I built it from the ground up (React/TypeScript, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS), but the part I'm proudest of is the engineering judgment: training a custom EfficientNet model and exporting it to ONNX for optimized inference, and deliberately pulling an LLM out of the safety pipeline in favor of a deterministic, database-driven approach for reproducible, verifiable safety data.
What I bring to a team goes beyond writing code. My earlier career taught me to prioritize stakeholder empathy, translate complexity into clarity, and solve problems pragmatically. Today I pair those instincts with a technical foundation to ship work independently and think through systems end to end. I'm currently exploring Full Stack SWE and Applied ML opportunities.