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Current Role

Product Engineer @ Maden

May 2026 – Present
  • Designed front-ends for internal tools, Maden Atlas, and observability dashboards
  • Built an autonomous research agent that continuously feeds Maden's data layer
  • Owned the PostgreSQL layer backing internal services

Product Sourcing & Inquiry Coordinator @ Maden

Jan 2026 – May 2026
  • Sourced U.S. manufacturers and matched them to buyer requests, expanding Maden's supplier network

Experience

Editorial Associate & Builder @ Merit Systems
2024 – 2025
  • Designed and typeset the company manifesto
  • AI app development for Echo; built analytical tools to identify platform gaps
English Teacher @ Boyd H. Anderson High School
2023 – 2024
  • Taught AP Language, Cambridge English, and IB English
  • Set school record for AP Lang pass rate
  • Raised FAST ELA scores 32%
Writer @ Recurrent Ventures
2023
  • Wrote essays on international geopolitical conflict
Editorial & Journals Intern @ Ohio State University Press
2021 – 2023
  • Line-edited and typeset 32 manuscripts
  • Managed social media for five scholarly journals

Education

Columbia University Journalism School
CourseSummer 2023

Publishing Course: book, magazine, and digital

The Ohio State University
B.A.2019 – 2023

B.A. English, Minor in Military History

Magna cum laude, University Honors

Pittsburgh Central Catholic High School
DiplomaClass of 2019

Pittsburgh, PA

Side Projects

CAIRN
2026 – present

Curated Archive of Interactive Records and Notes

In Development

A private digital vault that organizes any domain of life — notes, records, research, memories — into a searchable dashboard. Version-controlled on GitHub, deployed on Vercel, maintained by Claude Code, enriched by x402 research endpoints. A personal knowledge base with an AI-powered research engine behind it.

Agential Commerce
Ongoing2025 – present

Agent-readable commerce primitives — APIs that accept micropayments via x402 / MPP, so an agent (or a human) can transact directly without a checkout dance.

AEGIS
Ongoing2025 – present

A multi-phase study.

  • Phase one — understanding the internet: how systems, networks, and the critical infrastructure that underpin everything I build actually work, through the lens of defensive security.
  • Phase two — finding out what I'm actually capable of shipping with coding agents at my side, once I understand the layer beneath them.

The work spans network hardening, threat intelligence analysis, secure application development, cryptographic implementation, and DevSecOps pipeline integration.

3D Printing
Ongoing2025 – present

Modeling with Poncho, printing on the Bambu Labs A1.

URSA MARIS
Concept2025

Tethered, sensor-heavy survey class ROV designed to execute precise transects of the sea floor, collect sensory data for bathymetric visualizations, capture stable video of marine wildlife, and perform seawall and underwater infrastructure analysis

Echo App Building
Completed2024 – 2025

AI-powered apps with usage-based billing

White Horse Mountain Home
Completed2024

Branding, design, and digital marketing

Think freely. Build cool things. Be nice.

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