About Me

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Where am I working?

I'm joining Palantir Technologies full-time as a Forward Deployed Software Engineer. If you're not sure what FDSES do and/or its differences from SWE, look no further than here.

What school did I go to?

I studied Computer Science at NJIT and graduated through the Albert Dorman Honors College in Spring 2026. I loved it there, as I made a lot of great memories and met people who shaped my life for the better.

Why CS?

In elementary school, we were taken to the computer lab one day and underwent an initiative called Hour of Code (now Hour of AI unfortunately). You move Tracy the Turtle around a screen using code blocks and I remember thinking it was pretty cool. There was something about controlling the turtle's movements that made me curious to see how it worked under the hood. But as time went on and other interests came up (basketball), I thought nothing much of it.

Besides that day, I had a couple of fleeting, surface level plans for what to do with my life. The first time I thought about it was when we had to fill out an entry for "dream career" in 5th grade, and I put aeronautical engineer because it sounded cool (my real dream was to be an NBA player like Jeremy Lin but I was trying to be realistic). In fact, I rejected the idea of CS almost immediately when it was brought up.

As I went through middle school I became really enamored with being an airline pilot as well. Checking AirlinePilotCentral and searching up "layover week in {insert country} as a major airline pilot" on YouTube were central to my interest in the career. The concept of traveling and getting paid? I think anybody would like that.

It wasn't until near the end of high school that I actually woke up a little and realized I had been sleepwalking through my life. I started asking myself what I actually cared about and how I could take control of my life, and as much as I liked the airline pilot lifestyle, the hard problems in software continued to intrigue me. The ability to build things that didn't exist before, to work on stuff that's pushing what's possible, and the flexibility of software engineering itself were unique and invigorating.

That choice would end up shaping my future, and it's been really fun to build cool things and meet even cooler people, some of who I credit almost the enterity of my success to.