I love getting to build software that takes complicated, behind-the-scenes problems and makes them feel clear and useful for the people on the other side of it. Right now I lead a small team of AI engineers who work alongside companies to figure out where AI can really help them, then stay with them through building and shipping the solution.
Before software, I studied speech, language, and hearing sciences at UT Austin, with coursework in child development, language acquisition, family studies, and play-based learning. I'd love for my next move to be in edtech, where I can put both halves of my background to work and build for kids and the people teaching them.
Experience
Malleable AI
May 2026 – Present
Senior AI Engineer, Contract
- Forward deployed lead for a team of 4 AI engineers, embedding with enterprise clients to ship production AI agent systems from discovery through deployment.
- Architect and deliver an AI-enabled web-app for a medical device company that automates payer insurance-approval workflows, replacing a manual review process with an agent that assembles, validates, and submits approval packages.
- Build legal document-generation systems for a law firm, giving attorneys AI-drafted filings from source inputs using the firm's specialized drafting approach, compressing hours of manual drafting per matter.
- Own technical direction and code review across multiple concurrent client engagements, setting agent-architecture, evaluation, and delivery standards for the team.
Youth Inc.
December 2024 – May 2026
Software Engineer
- Architected a production AI image generation pipeline serving 6,000+ organizations, integrating Gemini and GPT image models with automated fallback routing and validation checks to maintain reliability during provider outages.
- Designed and implemented Oban background job workers for single and batch AI image generation requests, with automated nightly and weekly quality checkers to ensure catalog-wide output consistency.
- Designed and built a contractor management platform for the offshore design team, including work order tracking, role-based access controls, personal progress dashboards, streamlined review workflows, and a weekly payment calculator.
- Managed an offshore design team of contractors, overseeing day-to-day work allocation, performance check-ins, and delivery quality across active design projects.
- Built and maintained a full-featured internal admin tool used daily by operations and business teams, including CRUD tooling for SKUs and organizations, AI image generation UI, and personalized KPI dashboards.
- Built full third-party API integrations with Design Pickle (a creative services vendor API) and Photoroom, including bidirectional status sync, automated request lifecycle management, and real-time LiveView tracking interfaces.
LifeCloud
March 2023 – December 2024
Software Engineer
- Optimized data fetching with custom React hooks and React’s suspense component to reduce re-renders, display fallback UIs, and use async rendering to improve load times by 60% from ~1650 ms to ~660 ms.
- Architected notification service with CRD REST APIs to notify users respectively in-app and via email of changes in their account or estate.
- Led accessibility development for core web app, verifying compatibility across visual primitives, perceivable content, and operable navigation and achieving 100% WCAG compliance verified with ANDI, HTML, CodeSniffer, and WAVE.
- Designed and built a flexible DB management schema allowing users to create and classify assets with unique fields, adding 85 new types including medications, cars, investment properties, stocks, contracts and more.
Intern.House
April 2022 – March 2023
Software Engineer
- Created site for tech interns to find and apply for housing where they match with other interns at their company, increasing application volume by 300% within 3 months from ~30 applicants per month to ~90.
- Employed GCP Cloud Run with Cloud Functions to host site and automated vacancy updates daily from REST Endpoints integrated with 3rd party property management software.
Volunteering
Foundation Communities
August 2023 – Present
Software Consultant
- Pro-bono work for one of the largest income-restricted housing providers in Texas housing 3800 households.
- Built 3 sites (Javascript, HTML5, SQL, REST APIs, Azure) to sign up families in need, match them with community sponsors, and enable Foundcom staff to manage donations, approve families, and contact sponsors.
- Software matched 498 families in need with sponsors giving $199,770.00 in holiday gifts in December 2023.
Education
University of Texas at Austin
B.S. in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Coursework focused on child development, language acquisition, family studies, and play-based learning, providing a strong foundation for building thoughtful, child-centered educational products.
Writing
WW #2: A Peruvian Pause
Today should be my third Weekly Wrap-up, but oh well🤷🏻‍♀️
WW #1: First Week of Free Time!
Okay, so Weekly Wrap-ups on Friday may be unrealistic.
What am I doing here?
TLDR: learning to be creative and playful, one article at a time