About
I graduated early from Penn State with a B.S. in cybersecurity,
co-founded a startup, and now embed with enterprise clients to ship AI
systems.
I've researched LLM safety, sold GPU contracts at NVIDIA GTC, and lead
system migrations for Japanese government agencies.
experience
rutilea, inc. — software engineer (forward deployed)
kyoto, japan · jan 2025 – present
- lead engineer on system migration for the japanese national police agency — analyzing 6 codebases (one 4m lines, originally 700 engineers)
- pioneered ai-agent-driven migration using claude code and codex — 3 engineers analyzed half the portfolio in 3 months
- manage 128-node h100/h200 gpu cluster running self-hosted llms via vllm and litellm
- sold 80+ gpu node contracts at nvidia gtc 2025
- built a real-time political sentiment platform — knowledge graph over live x data with postgres, next.js, and three.js
- as intern (may–aug 2024): built a production automated call center backend in rust powered by gpt-4o, claude 3.5, llama 3, and gemma 2
rochester institute of technology — cybervsr research assistant
remote · may 2024 – aug 2024
- conducted 3-month research on llm safeguarding and jailbreaking under dr. j. yang
- successfully jailbroken gpt-4o, gpt-3.5 turbo, llama 2, and llama 3 using prompting techniques (dan variants, godmode)
- studied llm space representations of queries and protection methods against harmful prompts
swappify — co-founder & cto
university park, pa · mar 2023 – mar 2024
- led 11 engineers building a full-stack mobile app for second-hand clothing trades
- built with ionic/react/typescript, supabase/postgresql, and deno
- managed the full development lifecycle with weekly syncs between engineering and business teams
Open to opportunities, collaboration, or a quick hello.