I started the harp at four because Minnie Mouse played one on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Music made me curious about what motivates people and what brings them together, so I came to Princeton for psychology. Product turned out to be the work I like most: learning something new until I'm good at it, then getting people from very different backgrounds to build in the same direction.
Right now that means Hoagie products, a lab I started for non-CS students, and this past summer on Disney+ Search.
Currently
- BuildingHoagieCalendar (beta)
- Researchinghow 500ms of sound creates narrative
- ReadingThe Creative Act by Rick Rubin
- ListeningLa Source by Hasselmans
Case studies
Making Disney+ search results explainable. Over ten weeks in Seattle I took on four projects, from the ranking model to an assistant that two teams adopted.→
Rebuilding Hoagie around event discovery. When I joined in fall 2025 HoagieMail already worked, so nobody had looked hard at what using it every day actually felt like.→
Dashboards for districts that had stopped logging in. 20 K-12 districts had ghosted and the CEO wanted more features.→
Teaching AI to students outside computer science. In spring 2026 I ran the pilot for 25+ undergraduates from psychology, classics, sociology, and non-CS STEM. Nine of them presented a project at the closing symposium.→
Side projects
- Unwrapped: reads a Spotify listening history and looks for why the songs got played, which is the part Wrapped skips.
- Spotify MCP: 12 tools connecting Claude to Spotify. I built it for a workshop and kept using it.
- Music sequencing: a coherence metric for playlist order. It beat random shuffling by 39% across 114K tracks.
Blogs
- Aug 2026Why 500 milliseconds of sound creates entire narratives.
- Jul 2026Working with AI like it's a product sprint.
- Jun 2026Hong Kong, a harp, and how I ended up in product.
About me
Music was the first thing I was ever serious about. What I keep finding is that I love connecting with different kinds of communities, and building things that actually change something for them. Outside of work I play the harp and hike whenever I can find a trail. I also do calligraphy and crochet, write poems, and log every new restaurant and dessert shop I try on Beli.
Making music with people is also how I ended up in the Princeton Katzenjammers, the oldest co-ed a cappella group in the Ivy League. I'm the president, and I've led the group on tour to Montreal, with DC and Korea coming up. This is what we sound like, recorded for our 50th anniversary.
Résumé at a glance Full version ↗
I study Psychology and CS at Princeton, class of 2027, with minors in SML and OQDS, and I co-authored a manuscript at the Music Cognition Lab that is now under review. This past summer I was a PM intern on Disney+ Search, and the summer before that I was a product success intern at Cariina. During the school year I am head of product at Hoagie and founder of the AI Exploration Lab, which I pitched to the Princeton AI Lab in November 2025. I was a Claude Builder Ambassador for Anthropic, and I am president of NY Tiger Trek.
