Bringing trust back to the internet. Fraud detection and identity verification in 5 lines of code.
Growth Hacker
Mar 2025 - Present.
Democratizing active wealth management and promoting investment transparency. $17m seed.
Operations Specialist
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025.
Special operations to maximize onboarding and retention across product, ops/cx, and growth.
The investing app that teaches you how to invest. Backed by Y Combinator (YC W21). $4.4 million seed.
Head of Operations
Sept 2021 - January 2024 • 2 yrs 6 mos
- founding team, 1st hire
- operations, finance, HR, compliance
- curriculum design, education and writing for the "Learn & Earn"
- Hit 1 million+ users in the US
- Hit 20 million+ lessons taken
- Grown from $300k to $3M+ in ARR
- Achieved profitability while still growing double digit % MoM
- Acquired a card company
- Currently top 30 in the finance charts
Marketing Director
Jul 2021 - Sept 2021 • 3 mos
- organic growth, socials, seo
- strategic partnerships and community
Contrary Capital
Illuminating private markets under Contrary Capital, a VC firm with $80 million in assets under management.
Research Fellow
- Published 8 research reports that analyzed product, business model, and corporate valuation, including Midjourney, Webflow, Klarna, Intercom, Greenlight, and Zapier.
- Klarna memo was the 2nd most read memo in June 2023, received by Contrary Research’s audience of 40K+ investors, founders, and tech reporters.
Democratizing opportunity by helping schools maximize community engagement and enrichment.
Founder
- leading design and development of the product (NextJS, React, Tailwind, WorkOS)
- running operations, sales, and partnerships to work with over 30+ nonprofit partners and two pilot schools
- recruited a team with 5+ years of combined experience in edtech, supporting over 45K+ students
- managing finance, compliance, and achieved 501(c)3 nonprofit status
Co-Founder
Even the most technical and relentless builders need a kickstart. Receiving a grant to build my first company at 15 from Insight Partner's Ian Sandler changed my life & taught me how important first believers are. To pay it forward, I helped start Bagel Fund with a group of tech friends. We give micro-grants ($100-$500) to young ambitious builders. Working on something cool and need some non-dilutive ideation capital? Apply at bagel.fund.
To date, we've funded:
- Mason, 18, making a 2-octave electric piano
- Harish, 15, working on an energy-saving smart home platform
- Santiago, 21, building a 4-wheel independent steering car
- Yash, 19, creating a computer from scratch
- Sunir, 19, building self-driving RC cars
- Aaryan, 16, using computer vision to detect falls in elder care
- Advait, 18, building Teleoperation robots
- Arielle, 20, working on Apple Tree cloning
- Winston, 17, increasing AI literacy for students K-12
Working with venture-backed startups going from 0 to 1 across deep-tech, edtech, and web infra. A venture studio scaling digital experiences from NYC to Moscow through design, development, research, and growth needs.
Founder
2019 - Present
- product design for global supply chain, web infrastructure, and urban infrastructure YC, VC backed companies
- development for edtech and political-tech nonprofits
- helping longevity companies go from 0-1 through growth and revenue operations
- founded and incorporated my own holding firm
The Generation
Connecting underserved high school students to scholarships, jobs, events and learning resources to cultivate passion and discover the future. $170k software funding. Backed by Hack+ and Rileys Way Foundation.
Founder, CEO
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022 • 1 yr 8 mos
- $3k in cash grants
- $170k in software funds
- led team of 8 directors and 20 volunteers
- designed & developed the product
- operations, planning, partnerships and all the other fun chaos running something requires : )
Alect Political
Redefining political strategy. 3 congressional, 2 senate and 2 stealth startup campaigns.
Marketing Director, Board
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021 • 8 mos
- Sourced and co-led projects for our largest retainer client to generate $20k+ avg. deal for campaigns
- led client-facing marketing projects
- Designed and developed Alect’s website
- rebranded from “CTF” to Alect
- built internal IT system, operations, planning
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