data science researcher @ smarr lab, hdsi
April 2026
rebuilt query paths over 700M+ rows in bigquery, cutting runtime by 7x.
data science @ uc san diego · building data pipelines · san diego
grew up in a military family, moving between bases and overseas. learned to adapt fast and play with the cards that were delt.
Hobbies: Valorant, hiking, snowboarding, surfing, gym, doomscrolling, reading classics
Turning random messy real world data into systems that hold up in production.
rebuilt query paths over 700M+ rows in bigquery, cutting runtime by 7x.
built data workflows on couchdb for a sensor and survey project.
ran high volume mail processing on a military installation abroad.
customer facing work that paid the bills while i learned to code.
Army DEVCOM student researcher. Presented findings in a national conference
reverse engineered blitzortung's websocket binary protocol, then built ingestion with a custom decoder, postgis spatial indexing, fastapi endpoints, and full docker containerization.
deployed fastapi app with sse streaming, google trends ingestion, an hmac authed market api, and an ipo style scoring engine. built at the sdxucsd agent hackathon.