Software Engineer at Western Digital

I build software that works well
and looks like someone cared.

Firmware validation tooling at Western Digital, and before that customer platforms in React and Next.js.
I like the backend to be solid and the front of it to feel good to use.

Featured project · Jan 2024

Chip Design Optimization

UCSD × Qualcomm

Research into training graph neural networks on large-scale chip design data, and a traversal algorithm for graphs too big to walk naively.

Read the algorithm write-up
80GB
training data
1M+
nodes traversed

Custom batching strategy

Trained neural networks efficiently across 80GB of chip design data.

Weighted random walk

A statistical algorithm based on Markov chains that traverses 1M+ nodes.

Hardware design validation

Applied AI techniques to optimize the validation process itself.

Where I have worked

Three years shipping
production systems.

Sep 2024 — Present

Western Digital

Software Engineer · Irvine, CA

  • Contributed to an automated firmware validation framework in Python/Linux, increasing firmware stability for new enterprise storage drives.
  • Engineered an autonomous RAG system for firmware and log analysis that classified over 10,000 failure patterns and cut root-cause triage time by more than 20%.
  • Architected a standardized log-parsing pipeline leveraging MCP, integrating data into company AI agents.
Aug 2023 — Sep 2024

Energy311

Software Engineer · San Diego, CA

  • Built and deployed a production solar energy billing and monitoring platform with React and scalable Python APIs, supporting 2,000+ active customers.
  • Architected secure integrations for payments, onboarding, and reporting, enabling compliant handling of sensitive transaction data.
  • Migrated the company website to Next.js with the design team, achieving an 8% increase in active user sessions.
Dec 2023 — Sep 2024

Inautics

Software Engineer · San Diego, CA

  • Designed, programmed, and tested healthcare enterprise software processing more than 5,000 claims per day.
  • Built a secure data pipeline ingesting healthcare data from a customer GraphQL API and SFTP server.
  • Created an efficient EDI file parser in Rust that is HIPAA compliant and secure.

Firmware validation, payments infrastructure, healthcare claims.

What I work with

The stack behind
the systems.

PythonRustTypeScript & ReactLinuxSQL Docker & Jenkins GitMachine LearningGoogle CloudSoftware Design

Mostly Python and Rust against Linux systems, with TypeScript and React on the front end. Currently deepening the machine learning side at Georgia Tech.

Measured impact

Systems I have shipped classify 10,000+ failure patterns, cut triage time 20%, serve 2,000+ customers, and process 5,000 claims a day.

Firmware that ships more stable. Billing that reconciles. Claims that clear. The numbers come from production systems, not benchmarks.

Education

Computer science,
then data science.

M.S. Computer Science

Georgia Institute of TechnologySpecialization in Machine Learning · GPA 4.0

Enrolled Aug 2024 · Remote

B.S. Data Science

University of California, San DiegoMagna Cum Laude

Oct 2020 — Mar 2024 · San Diego, CA

Currently in Irvine, CA

Let's build something
worth shipping.