I'm a software engineer at IBM in New York City, working on enterprise resiliency testing and automation for the IBM Z mainframe platform. I replace legacy mainframe testing tools with modern open-source frameworks: porting Grafana k6 natively to z/OS, building Locust-based load testing for 3270 terminals, and creating CI/CD pipelines that bring current DevOps practice to enterprise mainframe infrastructure. Several of those tools are open source, including xk6-tn3270 , xk6-llm , and fromjcl .
I hold a B.A. in Theater and Computer Science from Wesleyan University , where I was a Patricelli Center Fellow , and I'm finishing an M.S. in Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon . At Wesleyan I also built SoundStoneVR , a spatial audio VR composition tool shown at the Immersive Imaginary exhibition.
Outside that work, I build tools at the intersection of geospatial AI and humanitarian use. DreamMeridian runs AI geospatial queries entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi, for refugee camps and disaster zones with no reliable network. It placed 2nd out of more than 1,600 entries in the ARM AI Developer Challenge, and the work was profiled by NYU Tandon Engineering and covered in Business Weekly . amanat scans an NGO's cloud accounts for exposed beneficiary data and remediates it on-device, so case files and biometric records never leave the machine. The line goes back to my time at UNICEF, where I built geospatial routing for school site planning, and continues through AskStreets and a climate-aware emergency routing tool for Brownsville, Brooklyn that won Best Community Communication Tool at the LEAP Climate Hackathon at the American Museum of Natural History.
These projects share a subject I have worked on since I was an undergraduate: who gets seen, who gets counted, and what systems do to people who cannot opt out. I first took it up in writing, in essays on surveillance and race and a simulation of how incarceration spreads through a community. I take it up now in an audit of racial bias in commercial face recognition and in tools that protect the data of vulnerable people. What changed over the years was the medium, from essay to software, and not the question.
I'm also a poet and theatermaker. My poetry has appeared in Barzakh Magazine , Collide-oscope (Heart on Our Sleeves Press), and Four Tulips , where I was a finalist in the Fantastic Mischief Writing Contest. I've produced 34 shows, directed Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced at Wesleyan, stage-managed Really Really Gorgeous at The Tank , worked as a sound, set, and graphic designer , and wrote theater criticism for The Wesleyan Argus . Writing, theater, and software have always been one kind of work for me, which is making something in response to what I notice.