Skills
What I actually spend time on
Research, product thinking, and shipping on the web.
AI-assisted dev
Cursor, Copilot, whatever helps me prototype fast and still actually read the diff before I merge.
Cognition research
Memory and attention tasks, coding stimuli, running people online, then staring at CSVs until the story makes sense.
Product and UX
Talking to users when I can, paper prototypes when I can't, and cutting scope so the demo actually works.
Full-stack web
React, Next, Tailwind, Vercel. Enough to ship research tasks and this site without it falling apart.
Communication
Leading sections, herding group chats, and translating stats for people who didn't ask for a methods lecture.
Photography
Sports and events: show up, shoot, edit, send the folder before everyone forgets why they needed photos.
Projects
Studies and builds
Live cognition experiments plus a few builds.
Live experiments
moth — ai homework tutor
The same tasks participants run, live in-browser.
Paste an assignment, moth splits it into problems and walks you through them without spoiling the answer. Built it for myself because copy-pasting into chatgpt was rotting my brain. Conceptual feedback only, in-browser editor, problem tabs, the works.
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Work history
Experience
Fast-paced service work and freelance photography.
Contract barista (mobile events)
Fez Coffee Roasters
Aug 2024 to Jan 2026
- Espresso cart at weddings and corporate events: set up, pull shots, break down, repeat.
- Kept the grinder happy and the line moving when 200 people suddenly want oat milk.
Bobarista / barista
Cafe Lattea
Nov 2023 to Aug 2025
- High traffic boba shop: speed, accuracy, and not losing it when the line hits the door.
- Trained new people on bar flow and covered shifts when the schedule exploded.
Barista
Peet's Coffee
May 2023 to Jan 2024
- Daily rush hours, regulars who order the same thing forever, opening and closing when needed.
- Inventory and machines when something inevitably broke.
Freelance photographer
School and community clients
2019 to present
- TED events, sports, school stuff. Shoot, edit, deliver when I said I would.
- Figured out lighting in bad gyms so parents still bought prints.
Outside class
Activities
Research, teaching, leadership, and service.
Undergraduate research assistant
UC Berkeley, Cognitive Science
2025 to present
Running cognitive science experiments: building the tasks, collecting participant data, and analyzing results.
Logistics and partnerships
Tech club on campus
2024 to present
Events, sponsors, Slack threads that would scare a historian. Making sure things actually happen on the day we promised.
Volunteer
Feed The Hungry (Bay Area)
Ongoing
Weekend shifts packing meals and handing food out. Good reminder that my problem set isn't the hardest thing going on.
Event photographer
High school athletics and events
2019 to 2023
Friday night lights, senior nights, all that. Learned to edit fast because coaches do not wait for your creative process.
Contact
Email or LinkedIn is best.
Say hi
Open to research, internships, and collaborations.