Work · 11 case studies

What I've shipped.

Eleven case studies. AI products at Rising Team, the platform work that made them possible, and two granted USPTO patents from my SSD years at Western Digital.

AI products · 3

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Rising Team · 2025 – presentaRTi AI Roleplay
+8% AI feature usage in 24h · +29% adoption since launch
  • LangChain
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
An LLM-powered practice tool that lets managers rehearse difficult leadership conversations, with a persona built from real teammate data and ElevenLabs voice.02
Rising Team · 2024 – presentaRTi AI Leadership Trainer
Up to 33% retention lift · 60–200% eNPS gain across customers
  • LangChain
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
The umbrella AI product I helped build: personalized leadership growth plans, AI Roleplay practice, AI Coaching, and team-building sessions for managers.03
Rising Team · 2025 – 2026AI Memory
Every conversation starts warm · regeneration rate-limited to protect LLM spend
  • LLM
  • Gemini
  • Django
An LLM-synthesized profile of each user, rebuilt in the background from their own conversations and exercise answers, so the AI coach carries memory across sessions instead of re-learning them every time.

Platform work · 6

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Rising Team · 2023 – 2024Mini Kit Framework
~95% reduction in kit-build time · 120 kits launched · thousands of sessions
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Django
A config-driven build system for 10–20 minute interactive team activities. Cut kit creation from ~1 hour to 3–5 minutes.02
Rising Team · 2024Realtime Framework
Eliminated poll-driven latency · lower server load · richer interactive sessions
  • Firebase Realtime DB
  • Django
  • React
Replaced 3-second polling across the platform with a realtime data-sync framework. Unlocked interactive session formats that polling couldn't carry.03
Rising Team · 2026Microsoft Teams Platform
Second chat platform shipped in 3 months · a third was later built on the abstraction
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Bot Framework
  • Microsoft Graph
Took a Slack-only bot and made it platform-agnostic: full Microsoft Teams support on the same data model, then a client abstraction and adapter registry that a third platform now rides.04
Rising Team · 2026Activation Notification Engine
8 nudge types across 2 chat platforms · built from an empty directory in 7 weeks
  • Django
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
A cross-platform nudge system whose core guarantee — one send per occurrence, ever — is enforced by a database constraint rather than application code.05
Rising Team · 2025 – 2026Calendar Integrations
Second calendar vendor shipped without changing a single AI tool call site
  • Google Calendar
  • Microsoft Graph
  • MSAL
The layer that lets the AI trainer turn a growth plan into real recurring meetings — Google Calendar and Microsoft 365, behind one recurrence contract and one dispatch point.06
Rising Team · 2023 – 2026Enterprise SSO
4 identity protocols · third-party login widget removed for a net −686 lines
  • Firebase Auth
  • SAML
  • OIDC
The Firebase-brokered identity layer that lets enterprise and school customers log in through their own provider — SAML, OIDC, Google and Microsoft Entra.

Patents (Western Digital) · 2

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Western Digital · SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD · 2019 – 2021 (granted 2022)Patent
+50 MBps throughput at 85–95 °C · USPTO US11508416B2
  • Embedded C++
  • Python
  • NVMe
Designed and implemented the thermal/resource-manager framework on the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD line. Improved high-temperature throughput by 50 MBps.02
Western Digital · 2019 – 2021 (granted)Patent
Recoverable SSDs after brick events · USPTO US11487439B1
  • Embedded C++
  • NVMe
  • HMB
Stores critical RPMB and FFU data in a secure Host Memory Buffer so the host can drive recovery even when the SSD itself is unresponsive.