what have i worked on? 𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘

ways i've used my skills in the real world







 industry experiences 

swingy monkey

Quant Trader | Virtu Financial

 > built a full-stack opening-auction testing platform to improve compliance
 > engineered a new instrument pricer, outperforming previous model 99.7% of the time & pushing to production
 > first place in the intern trading competition

Learn more here
me @ jp morgan

Climate Tech | J.P. Morgan NYC

 > first student intern on the Growth Equity Climate Fund
 > research on how to leverage AI in the agricultural drone space
 > met with lots of founders, learning how to build hard tech endeavors from the ground-up

WSJ article about team
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Girls Who Invest | Summer Intensive Program

 > took classes on finance & management at Wharton for four weeks  > invested in a lot of wonderful new friendships

Learn more here



 leadership & community-building 

swingy monkey

Harvard WECode | President

 > led world's largest student-run women-in-tech conference with 1000+ attendees from 25+ countries in 2024
 > revamped finances & offerings to quadruple our annual revenue ($50k to $200k) to provide travel & lodging stipends to hundreds of attendees

Conference website here
swingy monkey

House Events Chair

 > hosted events every other week for over 400 students, with creative themes each time — including a live band competition!
 > elected to house leadership committee
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HiLite | Editor-in-Chief

 > started out as a reporter, then fell in love with graphics and page design, before finally serving as editor in chief of the 80-person staff my senior year
 > my roots in storytelling, design, and data analysis started here

Writer's profile here



 select programming projects 

swingy monkey

Sounding Board

 > a social media platform for users to upload or record their own sounds, or explore and save those of others.

codebase here
pixel

Pixel

 > an interactive tile-matching game to teach people about color theory, focusing on intuitive design

try to beat it!
swingy monkey

Swingy Monkey

 > reinforcement learning-driven agent capable of achieving a score of 500+ on SwingyMonkey, a Flappy Bird variant.

description here
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Mini Shell

 > using C++, built subset of Bash shell, added complex syntax like command lists / conditionals, implemented pipeline + redirecting functionality

description here
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Color Encodings of Gender

 > interactive p5.js data visualization exploring self-constructed dataset on how different news organizations use non-traditional colors to depict male-female gender binaries

explore piece here
swingy monkey

Personal Website

 > this website was coded from scratch using HTML/CSS/Javascript!

codebase here

      you can see more on my github




 startups 

Roberts Family Fellow

 > collaboration between Harvard Business School & Engineering School to allow 14 undergraduates a year to explore startups, through seminars + the HBS Startup Bootcamp

Profile here

Harvard Undergraduate Capital Partners

 > led team to source deep tech, climate tech, ed tech, and consumer tech seed-startups for investors like Sequoia, Bessemer, and Lux Capital

Learn more here

Startups @ Harvard

 > attend biweekly discussions about emerging tech news + companies

Learn more here



 mentorship & teaching 

Teaching Fellow

 > CS1200 (Algorithms & Their Limitations), STAT 110 (Probability), CS51 (Abstraction & Design in Computation), and CS136 (Economics & Computation)

Peer Advising Fellow

 > mentored 25 first-year students in their transition to college

Women in CS

 > serve as a 1:1 mentor as well as overall Director of Community, organizing bonding events for hundreds of members