I am a second year CAPP candidate at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. I currently work as a Research Engineer at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago helping researchers do their work more efficiently and maintainable.
Over the 2022 summer I interned at Amazon Web Services as a Data Engineer working on machine learning pipelines and large-scale data analytics. Previously, I worked as a data scientist and occasionally as a data engineer for ConsiliumBots, an NGO that leverages economic theory and technology to make navigation in education markets easier for families and students. I was also a Predoctoral Fellow (a synonym for research assistant) at Yale's Tobin Center for Economic Policy for Christopher Neilson, Seth Zimmerman, and John Eric Humphries where I wore many different hats on the daily.
I completed my B.A. in Economics with a minor in Sociology at Southern Connecticut State University, graduating in December 2016.
I fell in love with software engineering after learning that the digital part of the world around me was made by others, and that I could also contribute to its creation and improvement. My own interests lie within the intersection of the fields of education, economics, computer science and technology.