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Apparatus
Experience / the kit, the rooms, the work.
Roles across neurotech, healthtech, finance, and research. Built things; broke things; learned the shape of the problem.
- 01Aug 2024 — Present
Software Engineer / JPMorgan Chase
Jersey City, NJ
- Queried and reconciled market risk metrics across 40+ source systems, verifying consistency of Books, Instruments, and Legal Entities between Risk Central and MaRRS, catching missing records and data mismatches before they reach production reports.
- Designed and implemented a Python-based batch processing framework that utilizes class-based logic and CSV configuration files to automate the reconciliation of market risk data, significantly reducing manual intervention.
- Redesigned the memory and concurrency model behind a legacy reporting pipeline, replacing a bulk data load that caused recurring out-of-memory crashes with a filtered two-step lookup, and parallelizing execution across memory-bounded subprocesses with dynamic batch sizing to cut total runtime 10x on production runs covering 100+ data feeds and 33 calculation types.
- Eliminated indefinite hangs from unreliable external API calls by isolating each call in its own timeout-bound thread pool, preserving already-collected data instead of losing an entire multi-hour run, and backed the system with 257 automated tests across 48 test classes.
- Built a natural-language interface on top of an internal LLM assistant that parses conversational requests like 'run signoff for Wave 7' and maps them directly to the correct data feeds and calculation parameters, letting non-technical teammates trigger and monitor runs.
PythonPandasSQLLLM - 02Nov 2024 — Dec 2025
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder / Cognera
New York, NY
- Co-founded a neurotechnology startup building accessible brain-computer interface tools, defining technical architecture and overseeing development workflows across early-stage product ideation through prototype stage.
- Prototyped NeuroWoods, a VR-integrated EEG meditation application combining real-time biofeedback from OpenBCI hardware with an immersive Unity environment for stress state monitoring and neurofeedback experiments.
- Engineered multi-modal EEG data pipelines using BrainFlow and OpenBCI, processing live neural signals for downstream classification and integrating them with Unity for interactive neurofeedback sessions.
BrainFlowOpenBCIUnityPython - 03Jun 2021 — Dec 2025
Research Assistant / DAIL Lab, Cornell
Ithaca, NY
- Conducted human-subject research across multiple DAIL Lab studies over 4 years: validated electrode configurations on mBrainTrain EEG headsets and ran multi-hour wayfinding data collection sessions with dozens of participants, then evaluated VR applications against defined usability metrics for a separate heuristics analysis study.
- Built Python/Pandas pipelines to reconcile raw participant survey data across datasets and batch-compress pre/post session video recordings, cutting per-file size up to 90% with no quality loss, replacing the lab's MATLAB-based and manual workflows.
- Wrote and analyzed BCI-related neuroarchitecture research papers and presented findings to the DAIL Lab committee.
PythonEEGUnity - 04Jun 2023 — Aug 2023
Software Engineer Intern / JPMorgan Chase
Jersey City, NJ
- Developed an intuitive interface using React.js, TypeScript, and AG Grid, displaying comprehensive product data and performance metrics including status, CERT, EPV, and Aged Alerts.
- Orchestrated Python workflows to extract, structure, and update both product and seal data from JSON format to be inserted into the interface's database using Pandas and MariaDB.
- Migrated over 20 queries from Oracle SQL to MySQL within a Spring Boot microservice, optimizing query efficiency and dramatically reducing data retrieval times by up to 90%, leading to substantial cost savings exceeding $60,000.
- Ranked second among 80 teams in company-wide presentations, showcasing expertise to executives and recruiters.
ReactTypeScriptAG GridSpring BootMySQL - 05Jun 2022 — Nov 2022
Software Engineer Intern, Big Data / Apartment Therapy Media
New York, NY
- Extracted customer information from JSON tree-like structures in BigQuery with a recursive algorithm using SQL and Python, saving Apartment Therapy $5,000/year in query costs.
- Created database models in BigQuery to power data visualizations in Google Data Studio.
BigQuerySQLPythonData Studio - 06Aug 2021 — Apr 2022
Full Stack Developer / ClearMD
New York, NY
- Automated sending patient results using the AWS SDK for JavaScript, AWS SES, and Docker.
- Programmed a patient portal using React.js, TypeScript, and FHIR REST API to automate patient result delivery and streamline clinical data access.
- Processed images containing patient information to extrapolate patient information using OpenCV and Tesseract OCR.
ReactTypeScriptAWS SESFHIROpenCVTesseract