Coin AI
Founder
Remote
Mar 2026 - Present
- •Building an LLM-native backtesting platform: describe a trading strategy in plain English, get a validated, executed backtest and PDF report back
- •Three-LLM pipeline (generation, deterministic validation, report commentary) over a phased backtest engine with 46 technical indicators
- •Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-Coder-7B with LoRA to match Claude Sonnet on strategy-config generation: 98.2% holdout accuracy on a 26K-example dataset
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software Development Engineer Intern
Seattle, WA
May 2025 - Aug 2025
- •SDE Intern on the AWS CloudFormation team, where I built a Java serverless AI agent that triages and investigates 200+ incoming tickets each week in production.
- •I designed and deployed the workflow with AWS CDK, chaining SNS and SQS for eventing, Lambda for execution, and Step Functions for orchestration, and used Amazon Bedrock for LLM-powered analysis and classification.
Database Optimization with GPUs (Research)
Research Assistant | Advisor: Xiangyao Yu
Madison, WI
Nov 2024 - May 2026
- •Optimized NVIDIA GPU performance in OLAP databases with custom algorithms, reaching a 60% improvement in query execution speed using CUDA and RAPIDS cuDF.
- •Worked with NVIDIA to integrate the research into the open-source cuDF library.
UW-Madison FinTech Club
President, Lead Engineer
Madison, WI
Jan 2023 - May 2026
- •Led a student organization of over 200 members as president, setting direction and running operations.
- •Led projects in blockchain and algorithmic trading, mentored the project teams, and ran workshops and speaker sessions for members.
AbbVie
DevOps Engineer Intern
Remote
Oct 2024 - May 2025
- •Automated CI/CD pipelines and system-to-system integration workflows using Jenkins, Docker, and custom scripting to improve deployment speed and ensure 99.9% uptime in a high-availability environment.
- •Coordinated with cross-functional teams to manage and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure, enhancing scalability, performance, and deployment efficiency through the integration of Kubernetes.
Uline
Software Developer Intern
Pleasant Prairie, WI
May 2024 - Aug 2024
- •Built an application on an Agile Scrum team that generates complementary orders for the top 2,000 customers, automating a previously tedious manual process and saving the business hours of work.
- •Built the backend with Spring Boot (Java) and the frontend with Angular and TypeScript.
- •Covered the work with JUnit and Postman tests to validate reliability.