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Product • Engineering • AI •
Hi, I'm Hope.
I work in Product Management, Engineering, and AI.
My mission
If you can dream it,
you can build it.
From an early idea to a delivered product, I love being part of every step. AI has made it possible to build more broadly and move ideas forward faster—across people, design, and technical architecture.
Highlighted projects
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Biker's Outfitters
An e-commerce platform I was contracted to build for Biker's Outfitters, a family-owned motorcycle dealership.
The Jade Platform
Served as lead engineer at Jade to engineer an options strategy management application for wealth management firms.
Maiscribe
Meaning "My AI Scribe," an early-stage open-source project for free and accessible audio file transcription, speaker diarization, and AI summarization.
Find a Time
A public group scheduling app. Still in beta release, with more features coming soon.
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science
Tufts University · Medford, MA
Bachelor of Arts in Economics
University of Massachusetts Amherst · Amherst, MA
Relevant work history
- Served as technical and product lead, directing a team of 8 to turn an early startup concept into a production-ready B2B fintech platform in 10 months.
- Architected and built the platform from scratch, including a Next.js client, Java/Spring Boot REST API, Python compute service, user analytics, and AWS deployment with Docker and secure CI/CD pipelines.
- Owned the product roadmap, managing feature timelines, resource allocation, and integration vendor management, sequencing ~20 biweekly releases under tight resources while keeping the product aligned with a constantly evolving strategy across 4 funding rounds.
- Led AI strategy across product and engineering, including shipping a production agent that acts on the user's screen with built-in compliance guardrails, and managing team-wide AWS Bedrock access and custom Claude Code plugins for development.
Fun Fact: I didn't know enough about options trading before starting this role. By the time of my second interview, I learned enough to get hired and continued to become an expert in trading strategies to contribute professionally to the platform.
- Provided full-stack technical guidance to students in office hours and online across HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, MongoDB, Node.js, PHP, SQL, NoSQL, API integration, and responsive design.
- Reviewed, debugged, and graded student code with detailed, constructive feedback, and ran office hours and an online discussion board working through database, framework, and architecture concepts.
Fun Fact: I didn't apply for this role; the instructor personally reached out and offered me the position after I excelled in the course. Thank you to Lisa Diorio, an outstanding instructor who made the experience even more rewarding.
Operations Representative
- Coordinated daily operations for a 400-person, $750M venture-backed biotech startup, managing visitor access, deliveries, space allocation, vendor contracts and ordering, and regularly taking on projects beyond the role's scope.
- Led operations on a cross-functional committee planning the company's first 300+ person conference, negotiating vendor contracts within budget, partnering with IT to install fiber-optic internet, and hiring and managing temporary staff, delivering an event that received highly positive attendee feedback.
- Built and maintained an automated reporting pipeline using Bash and Python (pandas) that extracted and cleaned badge access data into a monthly attendance report, replacing manual estimates and giving operations reliable data to set ongoing parking and benefits policy.
- Proposed and built a Python tool to calculate employee commute distances, sourcing ADP data across teams and integrating the Google Maps API, then deployed it in Mode to give HR a reusable, data-driven basis for travel reimbursement policy.
Data Science Intern
- Recognized for self-directed technical learning and selected for a concurrent data science internship while maintaining my operations role, partnering with the Clinical Data Science team to build an interactive Mode dashboard analyzing small cell lung cancer and gene mutation patterns to inform drug development.
- Quickly mastered an unfamiliar clinical data domain with minimal assistance, leveraging SQL, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GitHub, and Mode to analyze complex datasets, develop interactive dashboards, and communicate findings to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Fun Fact: I taught myself how to code during this time due to my interest in it, using free resources online. This was right before popular AI models became publicly available, and I was coding directly, learning about syntax, data structures and more.
Biker's Outfitters is my family's business, which I grew up in. Over the years I have contributed in many ways, and most recently have been contributing with my skills in computer science.
- Contributed across every facet of a family-owned motorcycle and small engine dealership, supporting technical leadership, sales, operations, administration, inventory management, and dealer relations.
- Spearheaded the end-to-end development and launch of the company's e-commerce platform (bikersoutfitter.com), leading service selection, cost analysis, project planning, site development, contractor management, and inventory onboarding.
- Automated inventory management by developing a web scraper to extract product data and images from supplier websites, reducing manual work and improving efficiency.
- Migrated the organization's email infrastructure to a new provider, managing domain and DNS transitions while preserving all existing mailboxes and minimizing service downtime.
Fun Fact: I grew up in a Motorcycle Dealership family and would travel across the East Coast for trade shows from the age of eight and worked there throughout high school and college. I learned the value of hard work and grit. .
Skill Tree
What people say
Hope was instrumental in building and launching the Jade Platform, an integrated options platform to help RIAs and other wealth managers turn their clients’ stock portfolios into actively managed sources of income with better risk controls. To focus only on her success herding the proverbial cats around Product would risk underselling her technical contributions. I can’t think of a single part of the platform she wasn’t hands-on with, right down to AWS infrastructure work such as wiring up Claude Code through Bedrock for the whole team to use — and then using it to prototype a chatbot interface. Her technical experience is matched by a disciplined MVP orientation and a relentless commitment to shipping: she is not afraid to cut scope to what customers actually need to get working software into customers’ hands rather than gold-plating in a vacuum.
Hope is the ideal high-impact startup engineer. As an advisor to Jade, I watched her consistently go above and beyond her core product/engineering responsibilities. She was adept at juggling project timelines, refining product requirements, and jumping into lead design efforts. Hope did whatever it took to ensure things were done — and done exceptionally well. Her ambition, versatility, and technical talent make her an invaluable asset to any fast-growing team.
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