Founding engineer at a 15-person startup, owning distributed backend systems end-to-end from architecture through on-call. Shipped AWS event-driven pipelines sustaining 14M-record peak bursts across ~1B structured planning data fields, LLM classification infrastructure at ~90% accuracy, and internal AI agents that cut scraper-failure triage from a week to a day.

Operators & Friends · NEA · Transition · May 2026

Sponsored by OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Lovable, ElevenLabs and Encord

The autonomous AI process engineer for advanced semiconductor packaging. Detects defects on the line, diagnoses why the factory created them, and prescribes the corrective process change — closing a multi-week, multi-million-dollar root-cause loop in minutes.

React · Vite · FastAPI · PyTorch · Gemini · Encord · OpenAI

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Apr 2026 · Team Captain & Lead Engineer

Full-stack B2B pharmacy exchange for surplus medicine redistribution. Real-time inventory matching across pharmacies with a regulated transfer workflow. Next.js, Node.js.

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• Serac Group — Founding Software Engineer (Jan 2025 – Present). Event-driven AWS pipelines sustaining 14M-record peak bursts at 99.9% SLA. LLM classification over ~1B fields at ~90% accuracy. AI agents cutting scraper-failure triage from 1 week to 1 day. Reduced AWS spend ~28%.
• emulsion — Full-stack portfolio platform: Rust/Axum API, SwiftUI iOS app, SQLite WAL, FTS5 search, DashMap caching, UniFFI shared types.
• e-commerce — Full-stack e-commerce platform: Next.js, Payload CMS, Stripe integration.

• KCL_gym_cooking — Multi-agent reinforcement learning in resource-scarce cooking environments. Final-year dissertation at King's College London. Python, PyTorch, OpenAI Gym.
• golf-seg — Personal finance tracker with budget management, transaction logging, and gamification. Django.

• Compiler Pipeline (lexer-parser → JVM backend → LLVM backend) — Full compiler for the While/Fun languages: lexer, recursive descent parser, JVM bytecode via Jasmin, LLVM IR backend. Scala.
• KCL_scala_functional — Functional programming: regex engine, Wordle solver, Knights Tour, Brainfuck interpreter. Scala.
• KCL_cpp_data_structures — Data structures and algorithms: linked lists, tree maps, Sudoku solvers, search strategies. C++.

• triage-lab — AI-powered emergency department triage simulation. Structured clinical intake, batch evaluation harness, and transparent agent reasoning over MIMIC-IV-ED datasets. Next.js 16, Python, OpenReward.
• bridge — Multi-agent deploy security war room built on Vercel WDK. Real-time threat detection and rehearsal system. Next.js, TypeScript.
• MiFIR_Rejection_Remediation_Engine — AI agent pipeline for MiFIR trade rejection remediation. Automated regulatory compliance analysis. TypeScript, Python.
• meridian-core-banking — Core banking system prototype.
• Hackathon_Tools — Reusable tooling, specs, and skills for rapid hackathon development.
• Hackathon_Practice — Rapid prototyping playground.

• Serac — Scaling event-driven pipelines and LLM classification infrastructure
• Planda Portal — Customer-facing portal for the Planda platform
• Planda Admin — Internal admin dashboard and operational tooling
• Hackathons — Competing in every hackathon I can get my hands on

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