Drive-through cashier. Catering crew. Phone sales. Tutoring algebra at a community center.
My family taught me to start working early and figure things out along the way.
It gave me something useful: I know how to talk to people who
think nothing like me, and I know how to learn fast when there's no other option.
I studied computer science and mathematics at the University of Houston, graduated with
a 3.97, and spent three semesters at NASA's Johnson Space Center before I turned 22.
I interned at Chevron twice, building IoT data pipelines and cloud infrastructure
for oil field operations. I spent a summer at AWS in Seattle, architecting multi-region
systems and learning how enterprise clients think about resilience.
Right now I'm at EPAM Systems working in commodity and energy technology.
Most of my time goes to connecting AI platforms to legacy ETRM systems, scoping AWS
infrastructure costs, and figuring out how to make tools built in different decades
talk to each other. Cloud engineering, energy markets, applied AI. That's the work.