Life After College: What I Told a Room Full of 200 Students and New Grads
Sharing the answers I gave on an alumni panel Q&A at the 2025 Boettcher Scholars Experience, including lessons learned about life, career, and personal growth after graduating from Colorado College.
The Most-Asked Question About Working at Stash
The most common question I hear may surprise you. Stash also just got nominated for an award, and your vote would mean a lot to us!
30 Days at Stash: 5 Lessons from My Startup Leap
So, I’ve officially hit the 30-day mark at my new startup gig at Stash, and it’s been a whirlwind! Leaving the comfort of a big company has been eye-opening. Here are my 5 biggest takeaways.
District Geomapper: A Free Tool to Visualize Voter Demographics
How I built a Python tool in a day to quickly geocode college alumni addresses and visualize their congressional districts for a professor’s presentation to a congressperson. Try it yourself to understand how you, your family, or your constituents are represented in Congress.
Turdle: A Wordle Clone with Animated Turtles
A Wordle clone featuring animated turtles instead of letters, with 42 years of unique daily puzzles guaranteed through mathematical permutation generation, built for Global Game Jam 2022.
Becoming Richard Hendricks: How I Lost the Battle for my Favorite Project at Google
The lessons I learned from watching my project get dismantled from the inside out, when a senior staff engineer used my ideas to secure his promotion to director. It felt like I was in an episode of HBO’s Silicon Valley.
Migrating a Monolith to Microservices: Google Cloud Next '19
A deep dive into the journey of migrating two large-scale monolithic applications at Google—Louhi and GlassPane—to microservices, presented at Google Cloud Next in San Francisco and London.
Singing for 500 people at Techapella 2018
Performing as a soloist with Google’s Alphabeat at Techapella 2018 was nerve-racking, exhilarating, and unforgettable. It led to my first professional studio recording session and feature on an album.
College to Career: My Unfiltered Advice for Aspiring Software Engineers
Navigating the job market after college can be daunting. Here’s my no-nonsense guide for college students aiming for software engineering roles, drawing from my own experiences and lessons learned.
How I Made a Virtual Car Drive Itself: Path Planning and Semantic Segmentation (Term 3)
Sharing my learnings from the final term of the Udacity Self-Driving Car Nanodegree, where I used semantic segmentation to identify drivable space behind obstructions, and subsumption architecture to plan safe paths while avoiding collisions.