Let the music begin!

Computer Science Major at the Ohio State University.

Based in Columbus, Ohio.

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Where I've Been:

Graph of experiences!

Summer 2026

Pinterest ยท Palo Alto, CA

Software Engineer Intern

Incoming Software Engineer Intern on the Core Engineering team, focused on foundational systems that support the broader Pinterest product and platform stack.

What I've Done:

A small storybook of projects.

01
Project Showcase

A small storybook of projects.

Flip through a few builds across hackathons, analytics, backend systems, and product-focused tools.

02
CareerRise Dashboard

J.P. Morgan Code for Good

React/Vite, Flask, Python, Tableau, Jupyter

  • Selected as 1 of 175 participants from over 12,000 applicants for the Columbus hackathon location.
  • Built an interactive dashboard visualizing economic mobility indicators across 11 Metro Atlanta counties.
  • Integrated Census and labor market data into heat maps to support nonprofit investment decisions.
03
CareerRise Dashboard

Built for real decisions

This project turned public economic data into something legible for nonprofits deciding where support and resources could have the most impact.

Data that actually helps someone decide where to invest.

04
Unveil

Product signals from noisy social media

Python, FastAPI, spaCy, Pandas, HTML/CSS, React, Netlify

  • Engineered a scoring algorithm to rank products by frequency and community sentiment with 85% accuracy.
  • Aggregated and analyzed 10K social media posts to identify authentic product mentions and sentiment patterns.
  • Designed and deployed an interactive web interface for live product ranking and insight visualization.
05
Unveil

A ranking engine, not just a feed

The focus was filtering hype from actual recommendation behavior, then turning that signal into a UI people could use in real time.

Turning messy language into useful product signals.

06
Recruiting Tracker

Analytics for a 150K+ member community

Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, React, Tailwind CSS, Discord.py, Render

  • Built a recruiting analytics platform for a Discord community with 150K+ members.
  • Designed backend models and APIs to track interview conversion rates and outcomes for 120+ companies.
  • Optimized frontend loading with aggregated API endpoints, reducing dashboard latency by 80%.
07
Recruiting Tracker

From anecdotes to usable funnel data

Instead of scattered recruiting stories, the platform made trends visible across companies, interview stages, and outcomes in one place.

Clearer recruiting insights, faster dashboard performance.

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More to add next.

This storybook is now a flexible project showcase, so we can keep dropping future work into new spreads without changing the format.

Contact

Contact

Want to work together?

If you're building something thoughtful, strange, ambitious, or actually useful, I'd love to hear about it.