About Me:

Here's a little overview of my life so far :

Age 0: Born and raised in Chicago

Age 9: Started my "dream business" called B.O.T Industries. What was it? I was designing smart homes, integrating products like household robots in my little sketch pad in hopes of one day making this possible… sparked my interest in engineering.

Age 12: Built my first PC… and I still use it to this day!

Age 13: hit a couple buzzer beaters in my YMCA basketball league

Age 15: started my first business reselling shoes during COVID… made a few $Ks but eventually stopped after I was spending too much time analyzing Air Jordans and had to lock back in on my classes.

Age 17: Mentored a class of 25 high school freshman students to help them navigate through common high school obstacles. I learned how to lead engaging presentations and activities (that didn't put students to sleep)

Age 17 (continued): won my high school Senior Assassins (for those who don't know what this is: read this) with a prize pool of $2K lol. I know this sounds silly, but it taught me resilience (I played with crutches), and literally how to win friends & influence people... shoutout Dale Carnegie!

Age 18: Built a tri-wheel dolly to move heavy objects on stairs… won 1st place scholarship award at the Chicago Regional Engineering Showcase.

Age 19: Joined my first startup as a Founding Engineer at BYLD Innovations. Built "The Laptop of 3D Printers" aka a foldable 3D printer that could fit inside your backpack. Raised $50k in funding by pitching in competitions like COZAD and CNVC being finalists in both and recognized as the product with #1 Most Industry Impact by UIUC.

Age 19 (continued): Got involved in organizations in college like Vice President at Engineering Ambassadors, Charity Chair at Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Business Fraternity, and Mentor at Product Space.

Age 20: First formal internship as a Design Engineer @ Signify, built ML models to help sales team, got my hands dirty with PCB testing, automated data processing with VBA Excel scripts. Overall, good experience learning how to test and troubleshoot hardware in the lighting/IoT space.

Age 20 (continued): Joined an organization on campus called Product Space and learned I wanted to get into Product Management. Worked as Associate Product Manager Intern @ EpicHire. Designed features built for the Apple Vision Pro interface. This experience led to an internship as a Product Manager @ Truleo. Ideated network effects, designed new features, develop product features roadmap, but most importantly, learn how to lead a team. Both of these experiences gave me a real glimpse into the PM role, and it quickly felt like a natural fit for how I like to work.

Age 21: Worked as a Campus Growth Ambassador at Simplify (YC W21). Lots of guerilla marketing on campus, organized a 200+ attendee campus event, and even convinced the CEO Michael Yan to come! Drove 200,000+ impressions on LinkedIn in one week for Simplify and brought 80 new users to their platform.

Age 21 (continued): First sales-adjacent experience as a GTM Engineer @ Autopilot. Closed $60k in selling the PUDU CC1 cleaning robot, learned how to talk to customers, automate lead gen, write killer cold emails that convert, Meta Ads, SEO/AEO optimization, and so much more… even gave a robot demo in Spanish!

Age 22: Started first company Alligator (personal CRM tool) that won Best Pitch at Cozad 2026, raised $10K from Menlo Ventures for non-profit libraryCreate.

Flash forward to now : moved to SF post-grad to work in GTM @ Vercel building systems that convert to won deals… and I'm absolutely LOVING it.