Welcome to my website! I'm an amateur filmmaker, avid coffee drinker, and full-time software engineer at Stripe in San Francisco.

I graduated from UCLA where I majored in Computer Science and minored in Film, Television, and Digital Media. I enjoy playing basketball, cooking, and reading (please send me your book recommendations!). I've been the Director of Media Relations at SEP (UCLA's premier entrepreneurship organization), the Vice President of FPS Productions, and a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines.

If you're interested in collaborating on a fun project or just want to chat, please reach me on my social media provided above. I'd love to hear from you!

Ozzy's World

Best Screenplay and Best Actor,
CEC Shorttakes 2022

Ozzy's World

Independent, Spring 2022

Cube

Jury Award Winner, CMF 2020

Cube

Lead Editor, Winter 2020

We Need To Talk

Best Editing, CEC Shorttakes 2020
Finalist, Nikon CinemaZ 2019

We Need To Talk

Independent, Summer 2019

White Crow

Official Selection, Melbourne Lift-Off 2020

White Crow

Lead Editor, Spring 2019

Disconnected
Disconnected

Lead Editor, Winter 2019

Gold-Digging Girl

Audience Choice Award, CMF 2018

Gold-Digging Girl

Assistant Editor, Fall 2018

Superman in Real Life
Superman In Real Life

Independent, Summer 2017

codirector
codirector

Make and distribute interactive films

Robot Doomsday
Robot Doomsday

Videogame where you must survive a robot invasion.

Books For A Cause
Books For A Cause

Online second-hand bookstore in GEMS Modern Academy

Software Engineer
Stripe Logo

Summer 2022 - Present

I build software full-time at Stripe ! I work on the Data Connectors team, which automates the ingestion of third-party data into Stripe so it can function as a merchant's financial system-of-record, enabling them to use Stripe for Tax, Revenue Recognition, and much more! When I'm not writing Java or Ruby, I'm probably tracking down which YAML file I need to edit to get things to work.

Software Engineer Intern
Amazon Logo

Summer 2021

At Amazon, I developed a ticket triage tool with AWS CDK and Lambda to reduce the time taken to resolve customer-initiated tickets. I ensured that my tool was secure and robust by integrating Amazon’s Enterprise Access-only Authorization, adding monitors and alarms, and writing unit and integration tests. I also helped onboard a new hire since developing this tool gave me the most up-to-date knowledge on our legacy systems!

Software Engineer Intern
ESRI Logo

Summer 2017

At Esri I developed drivers in C++ to provide support for WEBP and PDF formats in ArcGIS (ESRI's flagship software) using the open-source library GDAL, and wrote user documentation for these plugins. I also collaborated with a team of interns to write an automated testing script in Python which compared image statistics and verified support for various file formats.

Sometimes my college/school papers turned out better than expected. Here are a few of them. If you don't know where to start, I recommend the one on Quantum Computing and Bitcoin since it was published and listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for CompSciRN Cyber Attack (Topic) and the Computing Methodology eJournal. I spent six months working on it and even received advice from Martin Roetteler at Microsoft!

Cinema vs Netflix
SVODs

Could SVOD Services Signal the Death of the American Film Industry?

Quantum Computing and Bitcoin
Quantum Computing and Bitcoin

How would Quantum Computing impact the security of Bitcoin by enhancing our ability to solve the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem?

Utopia
Utopia

What was the Intention behind Thomas More's Utopia?

Mpemba Effect
Mpemba Effect

What is the relationship between the initial temperature of water and its rate of cooling?

Head Injury Criterion
Head Injury Criterion

What is the risk of a fatal head injury during a car crash?