Work

Helped redesign UCLA’s fragmented collection of departmental and project websites into a centrally managed AWS platform with reproducible infrastructure and deployments. I conceived and built an automated migration system that used coding agents to analyze massive, inconsistent XML exports and turn what they discovered into deterministic transformation rules. The modular pipeline preserved site structure and content while avoiding an estimated 1,000 hours of manual migration work, with about 15 sites onboarded before I left.

Designed and built an experimental on-premise platform for AI applications that needed to keep student and faculty data on university-controlled hardware. It supported a collaborative classroom chat where groups could interact with a locally hosted LLM, along with a production-facing PDF accessibility workflow for OCR, remediation, and human-readable accessibility reports. The PDF system became part of a real remediation service used by a small university team processing submitted documents.

Served as the primary engineer on the touchscreen UI used across two commercial grocery-store robot platforms. I built features spanning robot setup and factory provisioning, autonomy and route workflows, developer observability, internationalization, and responsive layouts. I also created a protocol-level robot simulator that reproduced robot events, workflows, and autonomy data, allowing the UI team to develop and debug complete interactions without depending on physical robots or unfinished backend services.