The story so far.
Software engineer turned founder. Berkeley. Amazon ML. Cerebro. Now CTO at AirPLAi Sports. A compressed timeline with the specific bits left in, because life isn't linear and neither is this.
- Now· now
AirPLAi Sports / Co-Founder + CTO
Building the AI layer for sports video. Live across leagues from Ball Is Life to the NY Liberty. Five humans plus a fleet of agents because the math of the market we're going after doesn't work any other way.
airplaisports.com ↗ - May 2025
Won MIT Sloan Sports Analytics 2025 Startup Competition
Before the WNBA pilot, before the first paid league, before any of it. The validation arc that turned the thesis into a company.
- Pre-AirPLAi
Cerebro
Led product, AI, and the tech team. The lesson I keep coming back to: the sports tech landscape has more white space than the headlines suggest. Most of what looks built isn't, and most of what's built isn't what teams need.
- Pre-Cerebro
Amazon · ML / AI Engineer
Where I learned what rigorous engineering at scale feels like. Also where I learned that rigor pointed at the wrong target compounds in the wrong direction. The pivot to startups was about choosing the target, not about leaving rigor behind.
- 2018–2022
UC Berkeley · Computer Science + Finance
Wrote my first ML systems, took the first markets seriously, and started thinking about software as leverage rather than as a job. The Finance half is part of why I think about the company side, not just the code.
- Always
Hoops Dojo · Basketball, content, internet
I was making basketball edits on social before I was making software. Most of what I've shipped since traces back to either obsessing over a game or trying to capture something I saw and turn it into something else. The hoops-to-AI pipeline is shorter than people think.