Hi, I’m Zach. I’m a graduate student in Computer Science at Penn Engineering, previously on the founding team of a startup, working on community and product. I studied design and business, but have always had an interest in technology. I chose engineering because I believe AI has made a deep understanding of software more valuable, not less.

I want to work between engineering and product, writing software and shaping what gets built, ideally at an AI company, whether a lab building large language models or a team applying them to a hard problem. Robotics, quantitative finance, and decentralized finance excite me too. Outside of class, I run technology for Kindness Kits, an LA nonprofit.