AI and systems engineer in the Bay Area pursuing an M.S. in Applied Data Intelligence at San José State University. I build reliable, tool-using AI systems with permissions, evidence, and auditability. My projects include PACT, a permissioned household-agent runtime; Gasket, an evidence-first ML release gate; and SPECTRA, an AI assistant for Wi-Fi QA. Interested in multimodal agents, AI reliability, and consumer AI.