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Ant

Software engineering startup focused on the intersection of social behavior and the internet for individuals and corporations.

Full-stack AI application that has raised over $500,000 in funding and is used by thousands. Frontend built in React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, HTML. Backend built in Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, managed by GCP (formerly AWS). Uses AI hosted on project Parrot (privately owned small language model) and public LLM. Personas collected via project Marmot (privately owned dataset AI researcher).

Learned how to sell and partner with companies, hire and manage employees, and raise money as CEO.

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Founder / Software Engineer

March 2025 - Present

MIT ChemE: Braatz Group

Section in the Ford Chemical Engineering building on MIT's campus that focuses on control theory and applied mathematical modeling of chemical engineering.

Formulated simulations of bilinear chemical reactions, two-tank systems, and monticlonal antibody purification for vaccine manufacturing involving PDEs using C++, Julia, MATLAB, and Python.

Learned to apply mathematics via control theory and ML frameworks to find unknown parameters and predict physical reactions for optimization.

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Computational Scientist

June 2024 - August 2025

Koch Institute: Sanchez-Rivera Laboratory

The Sanchez-Rivera laboratory is focused primarily on epithelial cell carcinoma.

Showed that the 'EA' genetic knockout cell line grew without IL-3, suggesting the 'EA' knockout to be a cancerous gene by performing experiments on Ba/F3 dependent cancer cells.

Mouse Trained, PPE Trained, Hazardous Laboratory Trained

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Undergraduate Researcher

January 2024 - January 2024

Stock Solutions

Stock Solutions is an SEO-optimization company for local businesses.

Built a website tokenization application using Java, JavaFX, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for templates to be filled using a public LLM to optimize for SEO.

Learned to further develop a business using software engineering, manage projects, and communicate with clients.

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Web Developer

May 2023 - August 2023

Fort Myers Mighty Mussels

The Mighty Mussels are a minor league baseball team in the Florida State League.

Prepared food for the team, cleaned the locker rooms, uniforms, and cleats for the players, and oversaw a smooth transition for visiting players and fans.

Taught me values of organization and cooperation. Prepared food for the team, cleaned the locker rooms and uniforms for the players, and oversaw a smooth transition for visiting players and fans.

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Clubhouse Attendant

April 2022 - September 2022

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Computational Biology, Introduction to Inference

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Computer Science and AI & Biology

2023 - 2026

St. John Neumann Catholic High School

AP Biology, AP Calculus AB, AP Physics 1

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High School Diploma

2020 - 2023

Notre Dame

Environmental Conservation

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Sustainable Thinking

2021 - 2021

Passion

StartLabs

StartLabs is a premier entrepreneurship club at MIT.

Enjoy helping highschool and college students fueled by passion to start their own startups/projects.

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Member

MIT Capital Partners

MIT Capital Partners connects VC firms with advanced university students who demonstrate ability to perform due diligence services.

Enjoy the cooperative environment and ability to learn from experienced investors.

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Member

MIT Varsity Baseball

Enjoy the competitive environment, responsibility and leadership.

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Player

Boston Children's Hospital

Helping children in need by providing assistance in surgery and recovery.

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