Product · AI · Security

I turn ideas into reality.

As a Product Security Strategist at Salesforce with an engineering background, I figure out what the business needs and ship it accordingly.

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30%+ manual review workload cut
1,200+ engineers supported
0→1 AI systems shipped to prod
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About me

I'm a Product Security Strategist at Salesforce who started out as a software engineer, so I'm just as comfortable shaping a roadmap as I am building the system behind it. I thrive in ambiguity, especially where AI, security, and product meet.

I've brainstormed, architected, and launched an AI platform from zero to production, owned the roadmap and growth for a RAG-as-a-service platform, and driven proactive security consultations across thousands of engineers. I tend to own problems end-to-end and build the playbook for how to deal with them.

I studied Computer Science at UCLA, stacking a Bachelor's and an AI-specialized Master's into four years, and I've been in that AI x product space ever since.

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Work experience

Jan 2023 — Present
Salesforce
New York

Product Manager

Architected and launched an AI system from zero to production, unifying data across teams to cut manual review workload by 30% and accelerate delivery for 50+ product security engineers. Owned the roadmap and growth for a RAG-as-a-service platform — onboarding 10+ teams through self-serve resources — and delivered 30+ security consultations across 1,000+ engineers as an early driver of the org's shift-left strategy.

Product Management AI Customer Relationship Management Strategy Security
2023 — 2024
Minds Matter Bay Area
San Francisco

Associate Board Member

Helped further the mission of the association by raising $2.5k annually, volunteering directly with the kids, and leading recruitment for the associate board. This included running recruitment events with 100+ attendees, handling marketing and vendor coordination, and managing day-of logistics.

Volunteering Fundraising Recruiting Operations
2021 — 2022
Salesforce
San Francisco

Software Engineering Intern

Across Detection & Response and Defensive Operations: built a real-time ML Model Registry on AWS, PostgreSQL, Airflow, and Flask that gave leadership live model-health visibility and cut on-call toil by 20%. Engineered an automated malicious-user suspension system that halved response time, and shipped temporal sample-tracking software that surfaced 20% of previously invisible malicious activity.

Python AWS ML / Airflow Threat Detection
2019 - 2021
Bruin Ventures
Los Angeles

Vice President & Project Lead

Managed client relationships end to end — sourcing, scoping engagements, and setting timeline and deliverable expectations — while also leading projects directly for some clients myself. On top of that, I mentored 30+ project leads through their own clients engagements: onboarding them, scoping timelines, shaping check-in presentations, and making sure things ran smoothly. Operations-wise, I handled legal enablement, recruiting, and mentorship of junior members.

Customer Success Project Management Leadership Recruitment
2020
BruinLabs
Los Angeles

Project Manager

Led a 5-person team using Agile to design and ship an iOS app that helped users set and achieve personal goals. Implemented a WebSocket-based messaging platform inside the app to power real-time user-to-user communication.

iOS Development Leadership
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Projects

AI · Security

Company-Wide AI Review System

Architected and launched from zero to production, unifying data across engineering teams and services. Cut manual review workload by 30% and directly accelerated delivery for 50+ product security engineers.

Security · Prioritization

Security Engagement Triage Tool

Built a risk-scoring calculator, grounded in OWASP fundamentals, that runs against every incoming security engagement. It pulls signals from across the company — code repos, Slack threads, Google Docs, GUS records — and cross-references them to surface the real risk picture, so the team only spends time on what actually matters.

Product · Platform

RAG-as-a-Service Platform

Owned roadmap and growth for an internal RAG platform. Built self-serve resources that let 10+ teams stand up their own POCs without engineering involvement, saving 50+ hours. The early pilots surfaced gaps that shaped our next wave of features and integrations, while adopting teams used the platform for anything from cutting on-call time and powering customer-facing chatbots.

AI · Audio

Voice Emotion Analyzer

Fine-tuned a wav2vec2 transformer to classify speaker emotion from raw audio alone — happy, angry, sad, fearful, neutral — no transcript needed. Shipped as a Python package with a CLI, librosa-based ingestion, batch processing, CSV/JSON output, a pandas API, and auto device selection across CUDA, MPS, and CPU.

Social · Product

Group-First Social App

A social app where the friend group, not the individual, is the atomic unit. Groups swipe Hinge-style on behalf of their crew to match with other groups — a match opens a shared chat for making plans. Built on the thesis that most new friendships form group-to-group, but every social product still optimizes one-to-one. Currently in progress.

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Contact

Let's work on building something together.