Founder / Software Engineer at PassportPhotoFactory.com

Founded and scaled an AI-powered passport photo SaaS, serving 2,000+ paying customers across 160+ document formats; processed 20,000+ photos and achieved positive cash flow. Designed a multi-stage ML pipeline using MediaPipe face detection, BiRefNet background removal, AWS Rekognition, and Claude AI for compliance validation with under 20 seconds per photo. Built analytics infrastructure for funnel attribution; implemented serverless architecture on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, CloudFront), Docker-based containerization, and an admin dashboard with P&L analytics and real-time session tracking. Integrated Stripe payments, BayPhoto print fulfillment API, and automated AWS SES email workflows for end-to-end digital and physical photo delivery.

Software Engineering Intern at Alida

Summer 2021 & Summer 2022 internships. Designed a multi-modal IBM Twilio-powered survey bot (voice/SMS/web) capturing customer responses, later productized to handle 3,000+ responses per week; prototyped an end-to-end NLP pipeline using IBM Watson NLU and spaCy to extract sentiment and topics from customer reviews for trend analysis and insights.