Jan – May 2026San José, CATeam of 6ON-SITE
Backend lead, Luminara
Led the backend of an app that makes academic reading accessible: dense text in, clear text out, with the meaning kept.
- Built most of the Flask backend: file conversion for PDFs, slides, Word docs and photos (with OCR), and back to the original format.
- Designed the pipeline so a local AI model rewrites only flagged spans, never the whole document, after NLP finds the hard parts.
- Built secure sign-in with JWT, disposable-email blocking and login rate limiting, plus a personal-dictionary API.
- Helped teammates with their code and Figma designs, and shipped it all with Docker Compose.







