Tech and Social Impact

Portfolio Highlights

Over the years, I have worked on various projects that involve the intersection of technology and social impact. Highlights include:

• Delivering digital security training for women activists in Somalia.

• Managing custom mobile app deployments for farmers in Rwanda.

• Providing technical guidance on countless funding proposals.

Data, Network Analysis, ML/NLP

Web Development

I have modest experience in full-stack web development, primarily utilizing the MERN stack. I really enjoy back-end development, including configuring server-side architecture and figuring out other key app engines. Projects include:

• 'Kanbas' (pictured) - a functional clone of the popular Canvas LMS (MERN).

• 'Bookworm' - a social media website for reviewing books (MERN).

• MeetHalfway.net - a personal project for an idea I had years ago. A lightweight web app to suggest optimal halfway meetup points for happy hour (Svelte).

I really enjoy working with interesting data sets and have developed strong data cleaning, analysis, and visualization skills. Highlights include:

• Leading stakeholder network analysis to visualize and understand complex relationships among organizations in West Africa focusing on community resilience and countering violent extremism.

• Data mining and predictive modeling (Logistic Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost) using human trafficking data to uncover patterns in forced labor and sexual exploitation, achieving 80% accuracy in classifying exploitation types and predicting victim origins.

• Utilizing instruction-tuned LLMs and RAG embedding methods for useful uses of LLMs to solve real-world problems such classifying and labeling of large bodies of text.