// hackathons
20+ hackathons — building, breaking, winning
Grand Prize Winner
AngelHack San Francisco 2016
Jarvis Technologies
Built an AI-driven voice assistant platform. Won the Grand Prize and secured acceptance into the AngelHack Accelerator 2016. Pitched to investors and mentors.
Winner
Launch Hackathon 2014
TravelNanny — Expedia / Capital One Prize
Built TravelNanny, a travel planning assistant. Won the Expedia/Capital One sponsored prize at Launch Hackathon.
Best Buy Sponsor Prize
Launch Hackathon 2015
Best Buy Sponsor Prize Winner
Won the Best Buy sponsored prize at the Launch Festival Hackathon 2015.
Winner
Launch Hackathon 2013
PrizeShopn — Kohl's Prize
Built PrizeShopn, a shopping rewards platform. Won the Kohl's sponsored prize at Launch Hackathon.
Runner-Up
DEV x GitHub Actions Hackathon 2020
Top 10 Runner-Up
Built a GitHub Actions-powered automation project. Placed as a Top 10 Runner-Up in the DEV Community x GitHub Actions global hackathon.
Winner
AngelHack 2017 — Alexa Prize
Voice AI Innovation
Won the Alexa Prize at AngelHack 2017 for building an innovative voice-powered application using Amazon Alexa and AWS.
Participant
AngelHack 2019
BuildCreditEasy
Built BuildCreditEasy, a fintech solution to help users build and improve their credit scores through automated financial habits.
Social Impact
OpportunityHack 2017 — San Jose
WalkNRoll
Built WalkNRoll, a social impact project at OpportunityHack San Jose to help communities through technology-driven solutions.
City of San Jose Alexa Hackathon
Food Wastage Reduction
Built an Alexa-based voice app to address food wastage, with plans for city-wide deployment in San Jose.
PayPal BattleHack 2014
Boston
Participated as Volunteer Developer Evangelist at PayPal's global hackathon series.
Beacon Workshop/Hackathon 2014
Qualcomm Gimbal Beacons
Worked with Qualcomm Gimbal beacons for proximity-based applications and IoT solutions.
Shutterfly Hack Day 2013
Mimo — Open Source Project
Built Mimo, one of Shutterfly's first open-source contributions, initiated from the internal company-wide hackathon.
Yahoo Hackathon 2013
Augmented Reality Social Game
Built an augmented reality social game leveraging Yahoo's APIs and AR technologies.
Facebook Hackathon
Recommendation System
Built a recommendation system using Facebook data for birthday/anniversary reminders and gift suggestions.
Microsoft Hackathon 2012
TV Show Countdown App
Built a Windows 8 app for tracking TV show countdowns, published on the Microsoft Store.
LinkedIn Hackathon 2012
CloudGator
Built CloudGator, a cloud storage aggregation tool, at LinkedIn's hackathon event.
Internal Company Hackathons
PayPal, Slack & Salesforce
Multiple wins at internal hackathons across PayPal (WebAR, Blockchain payments, Innovation Lab), Slack (bots, automation), and Salesforce (AgentForce, AI agents).