Lilychart
Co-Founder & CTOAI-powered IEP tracking and intervention recommendations for special education providers. Deployed with Foundation for Blind Children — 2,289+ student updates analyzed, 400+ individual goals tracked.
Fig. 01 — About
I'm a software engineer and product builder with a philosophy background from Claremont McKenna College, where I studied CS at Harvey Mudd and wrote my honors thesis on the accountability of lethal autonomous weapons systems.
Currently, I'm Co-Founder & CTO of MilestoneX, where I build AI-powered platforms for the nonprofit and education sectors — Lilychart for special education IEP tracking and Northstar Toolkit for charitable data infrastructure. I also organize Hack for Social Impact, connecting engineers with nonprofits to build AI solutions.
Previously, I served as CTO of Jet.AI (NASDAQ: JTAI), where I built and operated the company's entire software arm through IPO and launched the first public carbon crediting API for aviation.
Education
Claremont McKenna College — 2021
B.A. Philosophy with Computer Science Sequence (CS at Harvey Mudd), with Honors
Thesis: “The Accountability of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems” →
McKenna ScholarAppel FellowSummit Fellow1st Place Gould Humanities Competition
Fig. 02 — Projects
Northstar Toolkit
Co-Founder & CTOData and AI infrastructure for charitable organizations. Task-specific LLM routing with automatic fallback chains and structured schema validation.
Hack for Social Impact
Founding OrganizerAnnual hackathons (150+ participants) connecting engineers with nonprofits to build AI solutions. Partners include Chan Zuckerberg Foundation, Project Homeless Connect, and the United Nations.
Jet.AI
Chief Technology OfficerBuilt and operated the entire software arm of this NASDAQ-listed company through IPO. Proposed, built, and launched the first public carbon crediting API for aviation.
Fig. 04 — Now
Updated February 2026Reading
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future — Dan Wang
A Fire Upon the Deep — Vernor Vinge
Dubliners — James Joyce
Building
Scaling Lilychart's deployment with Foundation for Blind Children and adding new monitoring and evaluation features to Lilychart.
Thinking about
What theory of change evaluation and ideation looks like in the age of LLMs.
Shooting
Lately I've been shooting black and white architectural photography on my Fujifilm X-Pro 3. Brutalist concrete, geometric facades, the interplay of structure and light.
Elsewhere
The desk
San Francisco
Bay Bridge at dusk
Haight-Ashbury
Chinatown
Powell & Hyde
Victorian detail
Grant Avenue
New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Liberty at sunset
Prospect Park
Governors Island
Golden hour
2 train