Mayer Lab · UC Santa Barbara

Founding Software Engineer · Jul 2025 — Jun 2026

What I did

Sole-developed a U.S. Navy-funded classroom research platform supporting daily video-based HCI experiments across UCSB labs, with AutoGen multi-agent systems simulating student audiences (Award UC-2026-822-1).
Built a video delivery platform supporting 30+ concurrent streams across simultaneous daily experiments, benchmarked at 55% lower startup latency and 75% lower compute cost than S3 and CloudFront.
Engineered a real-time synchronization system with horizontally scaled WebSocket servers, Redis Pub/Sub, and automated failover, maintaining under 100 ms p95 playback drift with sub-second recovery from server failures.