résumé


work

MusicSketch

2020-Present

App Developer
2020-21 Collaboratively developed a CoreData model for musical scores. Independently built a scalable music score engraving engine.
June '22 MusicSketch 1.0 launched at NAMM.
2022-23 Added drum loops, new instrument sounds, and video recording capabilities.
Developer, Composer, Explorer
May-Jun '18 Self-guided dive into machine learning using online tutorials and code samples for TensorFlow. Sourced training data from MIDI files of classical music for training of LSTM, CNN, and GAN models for music composition.
Jul '18 After reading about the use of Prolog in AI, I worked through some sample problems online, wrote a sudoku solver, and began developing a framework for harmonic analysis of classical music using Prolog and Python.
Aug-Nov '18 Tokyo, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin, Dublin, Iceland, Cyprus, Egypt, New York City.
Nov '18-Feb '19 Composed, produced, and published music using Logic Pro X.
Data Visualization Instructor
May '19-Feb '20 Taught at a data analytics and visualization boot camp. Topics included Python programming, database design, JavaScript web visualization tools, Tableau, R, MapReduce, and machine learning.
Software Engineer
Summer '15 One of the founding team members of Gboard for iOS.
Spring '16 Gboard launched in the US and was the #1 most downloaded app in the App Store.
Summer '16 Localized Gboard's Google search integration to support 20+ new input languages. Gboard launched globally.
Spring '17 Designed and pushed a full architectural overall of Gboard. The changes squashed several dozen bugs from moderate to high severity and proved highly robust.
Summer '17 Hosted two interns!
Fall '17 Deep dive into automated unit and integration testing for Gboard. Improved infrastructure for our team, reduced flakiness, and increased coverage.
Spring '18 Tech Lead for an iMessage Extension launched in the Google Search app.

school

M.A. in Counseling Psychology
MFT Track, LGBTQ+ Counseling Emphasis
2019-20 Core classes on counseling theories and skills.
2020-21 Classes included multicultural counseling, group therapy, object-relations theory, and therapy with LGB clients.
TA for counseling process & skills.
2021-22 Classes on clinical assessment, feminist & multicultural therapy, therapy with gender-diverse clients.
2022-23 MFT Trainee with Adolescent Counseling Services at Woodside High School. Provided both long-term and drop-in therapy to high school students on site.
B.A. in Linguistics & Computer Science
Fall '11 Declared major in music. Studied piano performance under Walter Ponce and Gloria Cheng, along with university chorus and extensive music theory classes.
Spring '13 Transferred to the Linguistics & Computer Science major. Focused on syntax, semantics, computational linguistics, and artificial intelligence.
Summer '14 Member of a working group under Dr. Ed Stabler writing software implementations of recently-published algorithms for language learning.

Independent

2018-Present

UC Berkeley Extension

2019-2020

Google

2015-2018

Santa Clara University

2019-2023

UCLA

2011-2015