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 engineering hire at an AI startup for IT departments, funded by Thrive Capital and 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 to 1M+ records per ingest across multiple data providers and customers, and to 10K+ users.
- Designed and implemented the RAG search pipeline, surveying and implementing the state of the art.
- Designed novel AI interaction patterns, including "Playbooks" allowing users to reference tools and resources inline. Developed the main agentic workflows for the IT use case.
- Worked across the stack from platform internals to customer-facing AI features, and with customers directly to close individual deals.
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
- Participated in undergraduate research in Pure Mathematics under Dr. Eric Brussel. We studied a moduli space of embeddings of complex planes into the quaternions. We then generalized our approach over the generalized quaternions, classifying the embeddings of commutative subalgebras, related affine varieties, and conjugacy classes. We also studied the quaternions (H) from a category theoretic perspective.
2 years, 3 months
Cal Poly CubeSat Lab, Software Engineer
- Mission Lead of ExoCube II (Spring 2019-Summer 2020), a 3U small satellite as part of NASA's ELaNa XX program. Led team of ~20 through build, testing, and predelivery phase of the spacecraft. Worked with NASA Goddard, Virgin Orbit, TriSept to organize delivery of spacecraft. Mission funded by NASA, NSF.
- ExoCube II successfully launched on Virgin Orbit Q1 of 2021. Worked with current mission lead during initial acquisition and operations.
- Led development and deployment of CPCL infrastructure to AWS (~5 machines). Wrote Cloudformation templates, ansible scripts to manage deployment. Deployment met Cal Poly IT security standards.
- Developed Embedded Flight Software for CPCL including commits to buildroot, IPC library, beacon and XDR parser.
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.