Full-Stack Developer
I build software that serves communities by leveraging AI and my Computer Science and Linguistics background. I'm a problem solver, passionate about tech, social justice, languages and curious to learn new things every day!
May – December 2025
Front-End Developer Intern
Gobo Show, Inc. · Minneapolis, MN
July – September 2024
Software Engineering Fellow
Headstarter AI · Remote
July – October 2024
Open Source Contributor
R.care (YC W21) · Remote
September 2024 – May 2025
Teaching Assistant — Core Concepts in CS
Macalester College · St. Paul, MN
Mac Startups Fellow · Starting Soon · Summer 2026
Somali immigrants in the Twin Cities face a barrier I know personally: tax documents dense with legal jargon, and no affordable way to understand them. demystify.org is a 2-in-1 platform offering AI-assisted translation of tax documents into plain Somali, while connecting users to trusted community interpreters when nuance matters most.
Co-designed with the community, grounded in NLP, and built to reduce real financial burden during tax season.
View on GitHub →The Problem
Professional interpreters can cost $50–150/hr and aren't always available during tax season. Most Somali-speaking families navigate this alone, or not at all.
The Approach
Machine translation handles the bulk of document simplification while human community interpreters are surfaced for complex passages: a hybrid that balances access with accuracy.
Why This
As a child of immigrant parents who I had to help navigate taxes in a foreign language, I understand firsthand the struggles that come with it. This project aims to solve a global issue by scaling it first to one language, one community and one task.
2025
Social platform for language enthusiasts to connect, share experiences, and learn from each other. Full-stack React app with real-time features including creating, editing, upvoting and saving posts alongside filtering by tags.
2025
Hackathon finalist (24 hrs). Upload your ChatGPT data export and receive a personalized report on usage patterns and environmental footprint.
2024
Data Structures final project. Built a social network analysis tool that computes relationship weights between users, implements Google's PageRank algorithm to rank influence, and renders an interactive graph where you can click nodes to explore connections and a top-5 leaderboard.
2024
Full-stack to-do app with user authentication, AI-powered task suggestions, and smart title/description generation. Built with real-time sync via Convex.
2024
Contributed to R.care (YC W21)'s product backlog with a certified initial self-assessment quiz using Firebase as a database, Stripe paywall, and personalized recovery plans.
2024
AI-driven flashcard app that generates topic-specific Q&A sets for studying. Includes a Stripe paywall and user accounts, deployed on Vercel.
2024
A Rate My Professor chatbot assistant that provides a streamlined and focused search experience, allowing users to filter through professors based on specific criteria such as ratings, student reviews, and department.
2024
A sustainable water use consultant connected to the WaterWise website enabling users to get instant support and answers to questions about the website’s features and water conservation tips.
2025
This final algortithm project shows the animation of three common sorting algorithms - merge sort, quicksort, and heap sort. Through colors and animated movements it provides a clear visualization of how the sorting methods work.
2025
Think dating app meets travel agent. Swipe to match with a travel destination based on your preferences. Built natively for iOS.
2025
A digital escape room where players learn world geography by uncovering hidden clues. Built as the Software Development class final project.
2024
An interactive fashion dress-up game inspired by the Roblox game Dress To Impress that allows the user to pick clothes based on a pre-defined theme and compare the final look to the jury's pick.
2024
A Valentine's Day themed platform game made in 48 hours at the first Macalester College Game Jam. Help your squirrel climb up while avoiding obstacles to be reunited with their lover.
2024
An educational website that helps users track their daily water consumption by providing a score based on their usage alongside resources on water conservation.
2024
A simple inventory management web app that allows the user to add, filter and delete items from a digital pantry.
2024
A classic arcade game of Breakout in which the user needs to clear a collection of bricks by hitting each of them with a bouncing ball.
2024
A weather app that provides adaptive displays based on current weather conditions fetched from the weather API.
2023
A classic hangman game in which the user must guess the hidden word before they run out of attempts. This project was implemented as a final project for my COMP 123 class: Core Concepts of Computer Science.
2023
Youth Social Entrepreneurship initiative promoting inclusion through a fashion website giving underrepresented models a space to share their stories. Won three awards at the final pitch.
I'm a rising senior at Macalester College graduating in May 2027 double-majoring in Computer Science and Linguistics with a minor in Spanish. I've lived in France, the Netherlands, Scotland and the U.S.
Language holds so much power in society. As our number one tool for communication, the lack of access to a language can exacerbate exclusion, inequality and division. I believe tech can reduce these challenges if implemented alongside communities, whether it's in the preservation of endangered languages, increasing LLM training on low-resource languages, enhancing accessible language learning tools, or simply connecting people with a shared passion.
I thrive to keep learning in this always evolving industry. It can be overwhelming seeing the demands for software engineering jobs from knowing React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS to Docker, SQL, RESTful and Agile practices without forgetting cloud platforms and an understanding of AI... However, I've now learned that the real growth happens when stepping out of tutorial hell and building solutions to real world problems I care about.
Let's talk
I'm open to new grad SWE roles, collaborations on civic tech and/or fun project ideas. Reach out!