Systems design

A turn-based tactics game on a hex board, with no randomness in it anywhere. Every outcome resolves from position, timing and the action tokens both players committed; if you lose a piece, the reason is legible and it was yours.

• Full turn engine, animation layer, and the Sunken Court action-token set implemented and under test.
• Two playable factions with opposing postures, selectable at load.
• 239 automated tests passing, run as a regression gate on every change.
• Design decisions are written down as they are made, so the reasoning survives the session that produced it.

Honest note on what this proves: I built it by directing a system of AI agents rather than by hand-writing every line. It is real evidence of systems design and orchestration; it is not yet evidence that I can script it myself. That gap is the last section.

Balancing

A competitive duel on a fixed map, built to test one question: can two players race toward genuinely different win conditions on the same board and still be balanced against each other? Resource nodes deplete, so the map forces expansion toward your opponent instead of walling each player into their own corner.

The paper design is as far as theory can honestly take it. Distance, depletion rate, and match length are empirical questions, so the next step is a greybox: block it in world, walk the distances, and find out where the numbers actually sit.

Content creation and scripting

The third discipline, and the one I am weakest in. The goal is not to become a career software engineer; it is literacy plus a proven ability to ship small projects independently - fluent enough to direct the work, debug it, and speak to how it was actually built.

This section fills in as the work does.

Multi-agent orchestration

Five projects, each with its own scoped agent, sitting under one conductor that holds the cross-project picture none of them can see from inside. The interesting problem was not the agents; it was keeping their shared view of reality from rotting.

• A shared written operating standard every agent loads, so behavior is versioned rather than re-explained.
• Drift detection: each summary carries a provenance stamp, and a check flags any summary whose source file has changed since it was written.
• Handoff markers that let each project declare what it is blocked on, aggregated automatically into one list.
• Session hooks and an auto-capture pipeline, so a session that dies mid-task loses nothing.
• A logging service on my phone that writes to the same files, running as a background daemon.

Data pipeline with an LLM ranking stage

Discover, normalize, dedupe, rank, draft. It pulls postings from applicant-tracking systems directly rather than scraping job boards, scores each one against a written rubric of what actually fits, and hands back a ranked queue with the evidence for each score.

• Ingests from Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and RemoteOK through their own endpoints.
• Ranking is an LLM scoring each posting against explicit criteria, so the sort is auditable rather than a black box.
• Deliberately stops at a review queue. It never submits anything; a system acting under my name in the world is a line I did not want to cross.

Honest scope: I designed these, specified them, and debug them, working with AI coding tools rather than hand-authoring every line. That is real systems and orchestration work and I will not oversell it as something else. Reading the code, finding where it is wrong, and deciding what it should do next are mine.

A delivery company on Lake Atitlán, Guatemala: food, groceries and taxi, in a region with no street addresses and no single connecting road. Incorporated in Delaware with a Guatemalan operating subsidiary. I came in to run operations and stayed on as a co-founder.

• Own communications, brand and vision alongside the founder.
• Built and delivered the investor and demo-day presentations through the UConn CCEI Summer Accelerator, 2026 cohort.

• Led a team of six drivers across a language barrier, and built the daily workflows that let the operation run the same way whether or not I was watching it.
• Standardized cash-handling SOPs to 100% transaction accuracy.
• Raised average order value 56.7% and generated $4,500 in 30 days through a new cash-delivery vertical.

Remarketing Coordinator · Farmington, Connecticut

Promoted from Operations Coordinator in eight weeks. Coordinated the disposal and sale of over $5,000,000 of de-fleeted vehicles nationwide, and maintained the benchmarking data that decided whether the remarketing was actually working or just moving.

Inherited a backlog of orders falling outside expected timelines. The cause was not effort; it was that nothing defined what "on time" meant or who owned an exception. Built the standard that closed it.

Research Assistant, Department of Management · Storrs, Connecticut

Evaluated 3,600 participant responses for an organizational-behavior pilot study, supporting PhD candidates' research. That many judgements against a single instrument is where you find out whether the instrument measures what it claims to, or only what is easy to score.

Marketing & Special Events Apprentice · Bristol, Connecticut

Fifteen pieces of content a week and 750 new followers, plus on-screen graphics. Ran cold-call sponsorship for co-advertisement and vendor slots, earning $1,000+. The two tournaments I worked are below.

Administrative Intern · Remote

Graded weekly assignments from a class of 41 prospective entrepreneurs against a fixed rubric. Evaluating that many attempts at the same problem, week after week, is the fastest way I know to learn what separates a workable idea from one that only sounds workable.

Youth soccer referee, busser, line cook, mover, auto detailer, transportation assistant. Then coaching Brazilian jiu-jitsu at Gracie Barra, and head coach of the UConn BJJ club.

The referee years are the ones that matter here. A referee is a rules engine: you hold a ruleset in your head, adjudicate edge cases in real time, and stay consistent while both sides argue that you are not. I was doing game design homework and did not know it.

Delivery driver · and Lyft, off and on

Six years of it, running under and beside everything else on this page. It is also the reason the Colibri operation was legible to me on the first day: I had spent five years on the driver side of that problem before anyone asked me to design the system around it. A bad dispatch was not a theory I needed explained to me.

Build and parking operations · contract

No official title on this one. I was one of a crew of 25 or more, brought in to build the central compass: a circle of tiki torches, planted to a linear grid, big enough that it only resolves into a circle once you are far enough back to see all of it. Then parking lot operations for the event itself, which meant ingress, egress and point of sale.

Independent · one client

Eight months contracted directly by one client, TaCo. Content in Canva, Figma and Adobe Premiere, on schedules tied to real KPIs. Took a blank account past 1,000 impressions by collaborating with adjacent brands, which is the cheapest growth lever available when the budget is zero.

Production switchboard

An invitational: a small field of highly competitive athletes, streamed online for the spectators who were not in the room. I ran the switchboard, which is where I learned it. A live stream has no second take. You cut to the right mat while the match is still happening, or the person watching at home does not see it at all.

Head desk · Chelsea Piers, Stamford

A public grappling tournament, open registration. I administered it from the head desk: Smoothcomp preparation before the doors opened, then schedule management and match flow across the day.

The head desk is where the bracket meets the room. Whatever the schedule said in the morning, the resolving happens live, in front of the people it affects, and the event does not stop while you do it.

Digital Marketing Associate · Remote

Posted on behalf of 12 clients and designed the media in Canva and Shutterstock. Also edited website HTML to improve engagement, which was the first time I noticed I liked the building part more than the posting part.

Bachelor of Science, Management · Storrs, Connecticut