I'm a software engineer and product builder with a philosophy background from Claremont McKenna College, where I also studied CS at Harvey Mudd and wrote my honors thesis on the accountability of lethal autonomous weapons systems.
Currently, I'm Co-Founder & CTO of MilestoneX, where I build AI-powered platforms for the nonprofit and education sectors — Lilychart for special education IEP tracking and Northstar Toolkit for charitable data infrastructure. I also help organize Hack for Social Impact, connecting engineers with nonprofits to build AI solutions.
Previously, I served as CTO of Jet.AI (NASDAQ: JTAI), where I built and operated the company's entire software arm through IPO, launched a first-of-its-kind public carbon crediting API for aviation, and wrote fleet optimization software.
Claremont McKenna College — 2021
B.A. Philosophy with Computer Science Sequence (CS at Harvey Mudd), with Honors
Thesis: “The Accountability of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems” →
John Church and Vazghen Nikolian study synthetic-only adaptation of large vision foundation models for monocular spacecraft pose estimation on SPEED+.
AI-powered IEP tracking and intervention recommendations for special education providers. Deployed with Foundation for Blind Children.
Data and AI infrastructure for charitable organizations. Long-term goal of creating a complete OS for nonprofit work with seamless AI assistance for monitoring and evaluation, theory of change ideation, and more.
Annual hackathons (150+ participants) connecting engineers with nonprofits to build AI solutions. Partners include Chan Zuckerberg Foundation, Project Homeless Connect, and the United Nations.
Built and operated the entire software arm of this NASDAQ-listed company through IPO. Proposed, built, and launched the first public carbon crediting API for aviation.
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future — Dan Wang
A Fire Upon the Deep — Vernor Vinge
Dubliners — James Joyce
Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs
Scaling Lilychart's deployment with Foundation for Blind Children and adding new monitoring and evaluation features to Northstar Toolkit.
What theory of change evaluation and ideation looks like in the age of LLMs.
Lately I've been shooting black and white architectural photography on my Fujifilm.
