My Story

Raised in Los Altos, California

Went to Harker.

LA for college

Studied engineering and finance at USC. Got published!

Had some cool internships. First tried to help solve a hard problem of putting a battery in a window. Second, making awesome silicon based anodes.

Learned how to make Gatorade more efficiently at a PepsiCo factory in East Oakland.

“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?” — Steve Jobs to John Sculley

Read The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt → Became interested in data science

Back to school for Data Science at UC Berkeley

Tried to build my own startup: Dial Health. “Remove the dialing from healthcare.” Learned a lot!

Joined Armorblox to help build an amazing email security product.

SF — standup comedy debut, lots of biking in Marin.

NYC. First time living outside of California.

Cisco acquired Armorblox — stayed on to build.

Building Generative AI for Security at Cisco

Launched AI Defense — built 0-to-1, it red-teams AI models and guards enterprise apps against prompt injection. Proud to have shipped something genuinely new at Cisco's scale.

Joined Distyl AI as Lead AI Strategist — Product. Building the platform that powers agentic systems, transforming prior authorization in healthcare insurance.