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Change Research

• Build and ship full-stack features for Change Research's public opinion research platform.
• Develop custom audience management workflows and migrate internal survey tools into the client-facing portal.
• Build and refine survey validation tooling, including configuration interfaces, data validation flows, and user-facing feedback systems, increasing poll creation reliability at scale.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and research teams to translate ambiguous requirements into production-ready solutions.

Consumer Reports · Innovation Lab

• Drove end-to-end iteration on AskCR, an AI-powered research assistant surfacing insights from consumer data.
• Translated high-level feature requests from product and marketing teams into actionable engineering tasks, defining technical requirements and implementing new AskCR capabilities.
• Leveraged Cursor to rapidly prototype and ship 5+ consumer-facing AskCR features, increasing product stickiness and user engagement.
• Built RAG pipelines with Databricks and Pinecone for natural-language querying of Consumer Reports datasets.
• Implemented backend services in Python and full-stack features in React to rapidly ship new product capabilities.
• Managed CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes) and maintained production reliability.

U.S. Census Bureau · Reveal Global Consulting

• Owned full-stack development, data engineering, and ops across critical economic data tools.
• Built batch correction and ML-powered pipelines to reduce manual errors by 90%+.
• Designed and deployed an enterprise AI search engine integrating LLM-powered hybrid search.
• Improved access to supply chain data via Django REST APIs and Angular visualizations.

U.S. Census Bureau · Reveal Global Consulting

• Built survey processing app with Angular + Django, boosting processing speed by 75%.
• Advanced application security with JSON Web Tokens and SSO integration.
• Automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and IaC with Ansible on AWS.
• Authored developer onboarding guides, reducing ramp-up time for new engineers.

U.S. Census Bureau · Coding it Forward

• Built a large-scale data ingestion pipeline for 40+ years of Census data.
• Reduced manual data preprocessing workload by 80% via a Flask application.
• Eliminated manual federal finance and employment data collection with web scraping.

NORC at the University of Chicago

• Authored white papers and briefs on demographic research methods.
• Developed a Flask app for mapping nonprofits across Illinois.
• Co-published “Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health?”

NORC at the University of Chicago

• Led statistical modeling to analyze national public opinion surveys using logistic regression and Bayesian inference.
• Conducted sentiment analysis on open-ended survey responses uncovering key themes in policy discussions.
• Compiled survey toplines and produced public-use datasets to foster data transparency.