Selected work
Consumer software, AI, community infrastructure, research.
Different domains, one habit: staying close to real users and living with the work long enough for it to prove itself.
CleanTubeFounder & Engineer
A consumer Android app I’ve built and run solo for four years. 4.9M+ downloads, 650K+ MAU, 130M+ backend requests a month.
AlwaysThereFounding Engineer
Founding engineer on a real-time AI support app for Alzheimer's caregivers — investor-ready MVP in three weeks, latency cut from 2s to 300ms.
CrowdlistenSoftware Engineer
Retrieval and ranking that turns TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube data into timely topic recommendations for creators. Shipped to 600+ users.
EnlightenHMLALead Software Engineer (volunteer)
An AI learning platform and enrollment system for 190+ underrepresented students in Tigray, built on Google Cloud and Cloudflare Workers.
Tigrayan Community Assoc. of KentuckyDirector of Technology (volunteer)
Donation platform, accounting, and annual census I’ve run for six years. $500K+ in humanitarian aid processed.
Delta LabStudent Researcher
HCI research on behavior change — real-time, human-centered tools that interrupt negative patterns.