Management Engineering @ University of Waterloo

  • design systems that bring structure to messy problems
  • 5x hackathon winner
  • at Thales, on the Innovation team supporting Navy's AJISS fleet
  • launched Vit, git for video editors (2M+ views, vc interest)
  • growing a PM campus community @Waterloo
  • grew an Opennote campus community @Waterloo
  • seeking winter 2027 internship opportunities

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Work

Internships

  • Data Scientist Intern | Thales Current

    May 2026 – Present

    Part of Thales's Innovation team, building automation, prediction models, and data pipelines to support maintenance readiness across the Navy's AJISS fleet.

Community

Projects

Awards

  • 1st OveralluOttawa Hacks 8 (& 2nd, Thales Engineering Challenge)Developed CyberSea, a real-time Arctic route optimization simulator. Competed against 100+ teams.
  • 1st PlaceLA Hacks (Fetch.ai track, 1,200+ attendees)Built Edith, a real-time multimodal AI assistant running on Meta Ray-Ban glasses.
  • 1st PlaceOpennote × Buildsprint (200+ attendees)A puzzle and writing challenge.
  • 3rd PlaceShopify × CUTC Hackathon (150+ attendees)Built CityPath, an AI-powered intersection safety platform using geospatial and LLM-driven risk analysis.
  • 6th PlaceJane Street Estimation Competition (250+ attendees)Quantitative probability and expected value modeling under time constraints.