Education
Boston University
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science
Minor in Business Administration, and Medical Anthropology
Certifications
MIT xPro: Designing and Building AI Products and Services
CompTIA Security+
Microsoft AI Fundamentals Badge
Google Cybersecurity
IT By Design: AI Accelerator Workshop
Firefighter 1 Certification
Professional Experience
Perplexity AI
Perplexity Comet Campus Ambassador
- Drove desktop installs of Comet, Perplexity's AI-native browser, across Boston University by recurring tabling events at high-traffic campus locations, resulting in 500+ total installs each month.
- Independently managed end-to-end event logistics, securing campus permits, reserving high-traffic table locations, and coordinating incentive pickup and distribution, for 2+ activations per month.
- Tracked and reported event KPIs (installs, location, duration, attendance) directly to Perplexity's Student Growth team, maintaining consistent accountability standards across the semester.
- Executed growth campaigns aligned with Perplexity's brand guidelines, contributing to a national student adoption initiative for one of the fastest-growing AI companies.
Longterm Consultants
AWS Security Intern
- Lead developer leading the end-to-end migration of the company website to a secure, serverless AWS architecture using Amplify, Lambda, Cognito, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and S3.
- Engineered a fully authenticated web platform featuring user-role-based access, automated appointment scheduling via Microsoft Calendar, and dynamic generation of personalized enrollment sheets and benefits calculators.
- Applied the AWS Well-Architected Framework to ensure security, scalability, and cost-efficiency across the entire deployment pipeline to serve 500+ unique weekly visitors, ensuring low latency and high availability.
- Scaled the AI Powered Threat Detection to automatically flag irregular network patterns and potential threats in real time; optimized detection precision through continuous model retraining and feature refinement.
Focus Technology
Cybersecurity Intern
- Monitored and triaged security telemetry across multi-tenant client environments using Arctic Wolf and N-able, correlating alerts with threat intelligence feeds and escalating verified incidents to accelerate containment and response.
- Engineered and automated a client reporting framework adopted by 10+ managed-risk customers, scheduled reports to deliver real-time visibility into mitigated and active threats.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to bolster threat detection strategies and streamline risk assessments.
IT By Design
Summer Intern – Event Tech & Operations
- Configured and maintained a secure custom event platform supporting over 600 attendees, managing user permissions, content scheduling, and branding assets to ensure seamless access and uptime during high-traffic events.
- Tested and troubleshot technical issues before and during events, safeguarding seamless functionality through systematic analysis.
- Delivered post-event insights by collecting attendee and speaker feedback, aggregating analytics, and generating executive summaries that informed leadership on engagement metrics, platform performance, and future event improvements.
Projects
AI-Powered Threat Detection in AWS
Jul 2025- Built a secure, scalable AWS environment and trained unsupervised ML models (Isolation Forest, Autoencoder) in SageMaker to identify anomalous VPC network patterns derived from simulated CloudGoat red-team scenarios.
- Integrated the detection pipeline into a production-grade AWS Amplify web app, automating anomaly alerts via Lambda + SNS, and visualizing detections through a custom Streamlit dashboard; fully deployed and managed through Terraform for reproducibility and infrastructure as code.
Core Competencies
Skills: Threat Detection & Incident Response, SIEM, Cloud Security (AWS, IAM, GuardDuty, CloudTrail), Automation & AI-Powered Tooling, Technical Documentation & Reporting, Stakeholder Communication, Information Security Principles, n8n, Zapier, AI Assisted Coding Tools, MySQL, Reinforcement Learning, ML Pipelines, Product Design, AI Product Building
Languages: Python, Java, HTML/CSS
Security Tools: Arctic Wolf, N-able, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, CloudGoat
Cloud & Frameworks: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, SageMaker, Route53), Jupyter
Concepts: Anomaly Detection, AI/ML Implementation in Security, SOC Workflows, Browser Security Models, Generative AI, PyTorch, Product Design
Personal Interests
Music Production, Firefighting, Rock Climbing, Survivor, Cooking Experiments