As young as I can remember, my favorite question: why do people think the way they do? That curiosity pulled me through a bachelor in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at Cal Poly SLO and an M.S. in Business Analytics, where I discovered that data could tell the same stories about human behavior that lab experiments could; now just at a much bigger scale.

These days I build agentic AI systems at Amazon AGI. I get to bring everything together: the neuroscience background that helps me think about how intelligence actually works, the engineering craft to ship production LLM pipelines at scale, and the people instincts that make sure what I build is genuinely useful. When I'm not writing code, I'm probably mentoring students, presenting leadership workshops, or digging into a research paper that caught my eye.