Experience

Projects

Annex

2026

An open-source desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux that protects sensitive files during AI-assisted work. The platform temporarily encrypts credentials, PII, and source code so a local agent can't read what the files. Built with Rust on Tauri, with AES-256-GCM encryption, secure deletion, memory zeroization, and crash recovery.

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A Relational Database in Rust

2026

A Rust based transactional database implementation. Following the teachings of DDIA and Phil Eaton. Currently includes custom tokenization, parsing, byte level storage.

MBX Technologies

2025 - Present

A software consulting firm I co-founded. $50K+ in revenue and five client engagements in the first six months, building full-stack and backend systems for fintech startups and healthcare practices.

Statistex

2025

An analytics SaaS for competitive players, built on FastAPI, Next.js, and PostgreSQL. Includes a Valkey-based fingerprinting algorithm that deduplicates events before they're written, dropping database-level uniqueness constraints and improving p99 write latency.

Recommendation Systems Thesis

2023

Senior thesis at UVA on the machine learning behind social media recommendation systems, and what those systems do to the users. The full thesis includes both a technical breakdown, and an ethical analysis of the systems.

Portfolio v1

2025

A WebGL portfolio built to learn Three.js, render optimization, and a visual style well outside my comfort zone.