Profile
SWE Intern @ Federated Hermes
CS + DS @ University of Pittsburgh | May 2028
I've been writing software since middle school, beginning with creating Minecraft mods. I'm currently an intern at Federated Hermes doing data engineering work and other internal tooling. My primary interests are fintech / backend development, and I'm currently looking for internship opportunities for summer 2027. Outside of tech I'm into geography, football, chess, and lifting.
Experience

Software Engineering Intern · Federated Hermes
Jun 2026 – Present
- I build production data pipelines on Databricks in Python and SQL, with CI/CD and version control running through Azure DevOps in a regulated environment.
- I automated a manual data reconciliation process for the Private Markets team in Power BI, comparing over 10,000 transactions across 100+ accounts and saving an estimated 10+ hours of manual work every month.
- I led a team of 8 to first place out of 64+ participants at Federated Hermes' internal hackathon, then presented it to 200+ employees in front of judges that included Federated's CIO, SS&C's CIO, and a Databricks VP.
- They liked the work enough to keep me on through the school year.

Founder · Keygrad
Aug 2025 – Present
- I founded and built keygrad.com end to end, mapping 43,000+ course equivalencies across 1,800+ colleges into 14 Pennsylvania universities.
- I built a pipeline that figures out which institution and course a scraped record belongs to, even when there's no shared key to match on.
- I added a semantic-similarity layer on the Claude API to catch equivalent courses that exact-text matching missed.
PROJECTS

transfr
👑 Hackathon WinnerReact · TypeScript · Vite · Tailwind · Express
A degree-planning app that helps Pitt students cut tuition costs. Students lay out a semester-by-semester plan (Fall, Spring, and Summer across four years) with live requirements tracking and a running cost estimate, and a transfer-course search finds cheaper equivalents at other schools that still count toward their degree.
Won 1st place for Best Financial Hack at SteelHacks XIII (456 participants, 162 teams, 38 schools) as a 3-person team.

Paperclip
👑 Hackathon WinnerNext.js · TypeScript · Voyage AI · Claude API · Vercel
A RAG pipeline for internal SharePoint documents: normalizes and chunks text into 90-word segments with 20-word overlap, then generates and permanently caches vector embeddings on upload so documents are never re-processed. A multi-agent routing layer has Claude Haiku classify each question's complexity and dispatch it to the right-sized model.
Estimated $3.9M+ in annually recovered employee time from a 60-person survey. Won 1st at Federated Hermes' hackathon (64+ participants).

Chess Blind Spots Analyzer
Python · Flask · SQLite · Stockfish
Ingests Lichess/Chess.com history and scores every move by engine centipawn loss, surfacing recurring weaknesses by phase, color, and severity.
Across 100 of my own games (2,427 moves): endgame, not openings, was the dominant leak, 443.3 vs. 164.3 avg centipawn loss, with blunders (9.4/100 moves) outweighing every other error type combined.
Hobbies
Typing speed
74%65 WPM to go
15s test at monkeytype.com
Bench press max
81%60 lb to go
Shoutout the Pitt Rec Center
Mile time
84%58s to go
Peaked in high school :(
Chess peak rating
77%411 pts to go
chess.com: gamingtime3
Bedwars stars
61%389 stars to go
Minecraft: Jqmezz
Hardest Geometry Dash level
Easy
Medium
Hard
Insane
Extreme
Geometry Dash: JamezzGamezz
Hackathons won
40%3 wins to go
3 attended so far, 67% win rate
Bouquets given
24%19 to go
For my girlfriend



