Experience
10 months
Klaus, Co-founder & CTO
YC-backed (W26) consumer AI infrastructure startup. Raised $3M, reached $300K ARR, wound down on consumer unit economics.
- Designed and built the compute layer: custom KVM-based virtual machines giving each user a persistent, hardware-isolated environment for untrusted agent workloads, wired to Slack, Telegram, email, a managed browser, and the major model providers.
2 years, 4 months
Console, Founding Engineer
First employee at an AI startup for IT departments, acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2026
- Led the platform the product was built on, from the core data ingest pipeline to the AI features on top of it. Scaled data ingestion across new customers and third-party data sources, serving 10K+ users.
- Built the embedding and indexing pipeline on top of the ingest layer, incrementally re-indexing customer data as it changed, and the retrieval evals used to choose chunking, embedding, and ranking strategies.
- Built the agent execution layer that ran multi-step IT workflows against customer systems like Okta, Google Workspace, and Jira, handling tool calling, permissions, and retries.
10 months
Metaculus, Software Engineer
Early stage startup that built a forecasting platform
- Implemented scoring algorithm. Built out core features of the platform, including Search and Achievement features that drove user growth.
- Designed and developed public API client for interacting with Metaculus API. Built out API endpoints for new features.
1 year, 6 months
Amazon, Software Engineer
IPX Team, responsible for KDP Publishing
- Worked on internal lisp language, made contributions to the runtime and parser. Developed visualization tools for tree data structures. Developed DSL for querying book location on Amazon store.
- Worked on team of three to decide infrastructure path forward for team. Led major infrastructure and design choices for medium scale component. Led initial planning and development of said component, including CI/CD, designing APIs, integrating with other services through custom DSL.
Frost Researcher (Poster)
Frost Research, Cal Poly
- Undergraduate research in pure mathematics under Dr. Eric Brussel: studied the moduli space of embeddings of complex planes into the quaternions and generalized quaternions, classifying the related affine varieties and conjugacy classes.
2 years, 3 months
Cal Poly CubeSat Lab, Software Engineer
- Mission Lead of ExoCube II, a 3U satellite in NASA's ELaNa XX program. Led a team of ~20 through build, testing, and delivery with NASA Goddard, Virgin Orbit, and TriSept; launched on Virgin Orbit in 2021.
- Developed embedded flight software (buildroot, IPC library, beacon and XDR parser) and moved lab infrastructure to AWS with CloudFormation and Ansible.
Education
California Polytechnic, SLO
BS in Mathematics (Pure focus), BS in Computer Science
- Graduate courses in Field Theory, Point-Set Topology, Algebraic Topology, Programming Languages
Received Frost funding Spring, 2022 to research Version Space Algebras under Dr. Robert Easton in the Mathematics department.
Worked with Masters student under Dr. Theresa Migler to characterize power networks from a graph theoretic approach. Studied graph networks and built a framework for ingesting data.