Senior at the University of Pennsylvania studying Computer Science with a Concentration in Artificial Intelligence. Incoming Software Engineer at Rilla.
- 🛒 I’m currently leading the development of Penn Marketplace, a new initiative at Penn Labs designed to create a safe and trusted platform for students to exchange goods/sublets.
- 💻 I love type-safe programming, Tanstack Query, and Next.js.
- 👨🏫 I also love teaching. Next semester will be my 7th semester as a TA. This will be my 3rd semester as a TA for CIS-3200: Introduction to Algorithms.
- 👍 I prefer absolute over relative imports, parsing over validation (inspired from Alexis King), and well-defined enums over magic strings.
- 📖 I'm learning devops and infra engineering. I'm also currently reading Functional Programming in Scala!
- 🎧 Here's a podcast I watched recently that I enjoyed a lot.
- ☁️ I'm a certified cloud practitioner by AWS.
- 🧑💻 I mostly build on Cursor. For low-level systems programming, I like using vim/neovim. For LLMs, my main choices are Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. I also use Warp for my terminal and Arc for browser. Linear is my favorite tool for project management.
- 👂 My guiding mindset as an engineer is “strong opinions, loosely held”.
- 🏃 I've been running a lot recently. Add me on Strava!
- 💬 Ask me about full-stack development, TypeScript, bash aliasing, NLP, vim/neovim, cooking Korean food, and magic tricks.
- 👤 Check out my personal website.
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