Education
B.S in Computer Science, University of Washington
Grad: Dec 2024 | Seattle, WA

Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science | GPA 3.7/​4.0

Professional Experience
Search.com, Senior Software Engineer
Dec 2025 – Present | Seattle, WA
  • •Supported the migration of Direqt’s search platform following its acquisition by Search.com, validating retrieval quality and running regression evaluations to ensure parity between legacy and new infrastructure.
    • Direqt AI Search, Software Engineer
    Dec 2024 – Dec 2025 | Seattle, WA
  • •Built and operated a production hybrid search platform (keyword + vector + web) powering RAG-based search with AI summary for ~30 enterprise publishers and ~5,000 queries/​day over ~4M crawled documents.
  • •Served as the point person for search quality, diagnosing web crawling failures, parsing errors, and search regressions reported by publishers. Converted customer feedback into automated evals and regression tests.
  • •Owned search relevance and RAG evaluation. Designed and built an evaluation framework combining LLM-as-a-judge techniques and traditional NDCG rankings to A/​B test retrievers, ranking weights, and recency models against production baselines.
    • Direqt, Full Stack Development Intern
    Dec 2023 – Dec 2024 | Seattle, WA
  • •Built features for a multi-platform AI chatbot used by 100+ major publishers including Wired, GQ, and Vogue, shipping end-to-end across frontend, backend, and LLM pipelines.
  • •Developed a chat evaluation framework to measure LLM response quality and latency, driving a 30% improvement in human-rated quality and 2× faster responses through prompt tuning and retrieval changes.
  • •Designed and shipped interactive experiences (quizzes, polls, ads), increasing engagement and monetization.
    • Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science, Web Programming TA
    Sep 2023 – Dec 2024 | Seattle, WA
  • •Instructed students on JavaScript, Node.js, Express, SQLite, HTML, and CSS for 60+ students per quarter. Performed code reviews, debugging, and grading across hundreds of student submissions.
  • •Led twice-weekly problem-solving and architecture sessions, helping students design REST APIs, client/​server systems, and database-backed web applications.
  • •Guest lectured on APIs and client-server interaction, and led exploratory lectures on web scraping, vector databases, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.
    • Extracurricular
    Elias Belzberg Creative
    Winter 2024 – Present | Seattle, WA
  • •Designed, built, and deployed websites for film companies such as Point Grey Pictures (Superbad, The Boys)
  • •Built and maintained a personal portfolio (ebelz.com) featuring write-ups of projects and other interests.
    • cseed, Founding Team & Advisor
    Spring 2023 – Winter 2024 | Seattle, WA
  • •Founding team member of a 400+ member startup and entrepreneurship club at the University of Washington.
  • •Technical Mentor in cseed’s Build Space program, supporting business strategies, MVP builds, and engineering.
    • AutoDubs, Project Lead
    Winter 2022 – Spring 2023 | Seattle, WA

    Dempsey Startup Competition finalists, Foster School of Business

  • •Built an AI SaaS that translated and dubbed YouTube videos into multiple languages using the creator’s voice.
  • •Pitched at a mock investor night, placed top 36 out of 117 teams, including seeded startups.
    • Technical skills

    TypeScript, Node.JS, React, Vue, MongoDB, Python, Java, C, Web Crawling, AI Systems, AI Evaluation