The Arc
How I got here- 2026
Built this site
One repo, one language, one platform, and a blog where the bot drafts and I approve. Every architectural choice is one I can defend out loud, which was the entire point of building it myself.
- 2024
PEAR Health Labs
Core engineer on an AI fitness platform, partnered with the CTO from concept to production. Conversational coaching for 10,000+ daily users, and a small team I lead on new AI work.
- 2023
Vistry AI
Founding engineer. Built Eva, an HR assistant that read Fortune 500 employee documents through an OCR and vector search pipeline. Demoed it at CES and SHRM, and watched conference feedback rewrite the roadmap.
- 2022
AIBRT
Led engineering at a research nonprofit as sole architect of the full stack. A browser extension, a serverless data pipeline, and self hosted storage for sensitive data that could not leave our infrastructure.
- 2021
Research at SDSU
Undergraduate research assistant, running alongside the degree and the day job. A year of holding questions I could not answer yet, which turned out to be better training than any answer I could have memorized.
- 2020
Proko Tech
Software engineer, and the first time I wrote code on someone else's deadline, in someone else's codebase. That is the half of the job school never gets around to teaching.
- Earlier
Urumqi to San Diego
Grew up in Urumqi, moved to the United States, took a computer science degree at San Diego State. The plan was never a title. The plan was to stay curious.


