Two hackathon wins, a paper, a cert
Each one below is here because it changed what I could point to as evidence — not because it looks good in a list.
GoDaddy Summer Hackathon — GoA11y
Built an AI-powered accessibility platform with my team, and won the company-wide hackathon — earning a presentation slot in front of GoDaddy's engineering leadership and executive leadership, including the CEO.
Why it matters: it's evidence of both technical execution under a hard deadline and the ability to communicate that execution to people who don't share your technical context — a specific, verifiable version of "communicates well," which is otherwise the hardest thing to prove on a resume.
Case study →Claude Builder Club Hackathon @ ASU — SentinelEdge
Built a privacy-first, on-device scam detection system in a single day, winning the AI Tooling track against a field of rapid AI-application builds.
Why it matters: it's evidence I can take an unfamiliar, hard technical constraint (on-device, zero cloud) and make it the reason the project wins, rather than a limitation to work around.
Case study →Research paper submission
A paper describing SentinelEdge's on-device detection approach was submitted to EMNLP 2026.
Why it matters: it turns a hackathon win into an ongoing research contribution — the difference between "built something AI-powered once" and "doing AI research," which weighs heavily for AI-lab and research-adjacent roles.
Research page →AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Foundational AWS certification, reinforcing the cloud/infrastructure grounding from the GoDaddy internship.
Why it matters: it's a small, independently-verifiable signal that the infrastructure interest isn't just incidental to one internship.