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I find where complex systemsfail, then build the fix.

Ten years in quality and validation, from FDA-regulated medical device software to mobile and wearable platforms at Google to autonomous vehicles at Waymo, Tesla and Avride.

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Austin, TX · open to remote

About

I came into technology through quality: figuring out why systems fail, documenting it precisely enough that someone can fix it, and building the processes that stop it happening again.

I currently operate autonomous vehicles in live on-road testing at Avride. Before that, I owned end-to-end validation for FDA-regulated medical device software and equipment at Join Parachute, and earlier I tested Google Maps and Wear OS across mobile and wearable platforms.

Along the way I started building the things I wanted to exist. I work across React and Next.js, and I take projects from concept through brand, specification, and business case rather than stopping at code. My Data Analytics training at Vijay Computer Academy closed the loop between testing systems, building them, and reading what the data says about both.

I'm looking for a validation or QA engineering role where the work is substantive: owning test strategy, not just executing someone else's plan. Regulated environments and autonomous systems are where I'm strongest, and I'm drawn to teams that treat quality as a design input rather than a final gate. I'm based in Austin and open to remote.

Experience

Apr 2026 — PresentAustin, TX

Vehicle Safety Operator, AV Test & Validation

Avride (via HireArt)
  • Operate autonomous vehicles safely and lawfully, currently driving Golden Rides missions collecting pickup and drop-off (PUDO) data across downtown and north Austin
  • Alternate between manual driving and supervising the vehicle in autonomous mode, working closely with remote operators throughout each shift
  • Support data collection and in-field testing efforts, including adjusting hardware, uploading software, and assisting with basic technical troubleshooting
  • Prepare vehicles daily for in-field operations, performing safety checks and confirming system readiness before every shift
  • Monitor vehicle performance during on-road operations and submit detailed reports on system behavior, supporting system advancements and operational improvements
  • Collaborate directly with engineers and operations leaders, providing field feedback and insight on system performance and environmental factors
  • Maintain full alertness and anticipate hazards, driver errors, and unexpected events across extended shifts, applying thorough knowledge of local traffic regulations
  • Actively completing certification to operate the vehicle in autonomous (AP) mode
Mar 2023 — Jul 2025Austin, TX

Validation Specialist / QA Test Engineer

Join Parachute LLC
  • Owned the validation process end to end for SaMD (Software as a Medical Device) and regulated equipment, from opening the change request through scoping, drafting, pre-approval, execution, post-approval, and closeout
  • Authored Validation Plans, IQ/OQ/PQ protocols, risk assessments, and Validation Summary Reports (VSR/FVSR) in compliance with FDA 21 CFR Part 11/820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, and GAMP 5
  • Executed comprehensive manual testing across regulated workflows, electronic records, and system interfaces, ensuring functional accuracy, data integrity, and compliance under both normal and edge-case conditions
  • Qualified critical medical equipment including plasmapheresis machines, centrifuges, and refractometers through structured IQ/OQ/PQ protocols
  • Managed deviations and CAPA workflows, conducting root cause analyses and implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence and maintain audit readiness
  • Maintained full traceability matrices from user requirements through functional requirements, test cases, and evidence to support regulatory inspections and internal quality audits
  • Supported change control processes, performing impact assessments and regression validation for system and process updates
  • Contributed to building a new regression test library for automated testing, working hands-on with Selenium and gaining exposure to Cypress and Playwright
  • Leveraged AI (ChatGPT) to strengthen validation strategy, improving test scoping and accelerating automated test scripting while building the regression library
  • Built an AI-driven template filler that auto-generated validation plans and project plans from a provided scope, reducing documentation time and improving consistency
  • Designed and built a fully automated solution to track validation progress, test scripts, and test cases, giving the team real-time visibility into status and coverage
  • Developed an equipment management system tracking device status (active, in-use, inactive, available), inventory, and lifecycle, with role-based user access and permissions
  • Led validation of in-house enterprise systems including ERP and CRM platforms built on Power Apps and Dataverse, validating data integrity, user roles and permissions, workflows, and connectors
  • Built Power BI dashboards and reports tracking validation metrics and quality data, establishing backend data connections from Snowflake for accurate, timely reporting
Feb 2024 — Jun 2024Austin, TX

Autopilot Software Test Operator

Tesla
  • Drove engineering vehicles for extended daily sessions of 6 to 8 hours, collecting audio and camera data for Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) training and testing across real-world and controlled environments
  • Operated and managed data recording devices per shift protocols, starting, stopping, and monitoring equipment throughout each session
  • Performed minor software and hardware debugging as needed to keep test equipment operational
  • Wrote detailed daily drive reports documenting observations, anomalies, and data quality issues to support engineering triage and feature improvement
  • Logged a significant number of software anomalies across multiple structured test plans, contributing to measurable reductions in FSD disengagements and improved system stability
  • Performed post-drive log reviews to identify behavioral regressions, data anomalies, and performance patterns across successive software builds
  • Partnered with engineering teams to reproduce defects, validate firmware updates, and confirm fixes through targeted regression testing
  • Provided feedback and process improvement suggestions to optimize data collection workflows
Aug 2021 — Mar 2023Austin, TX

Validation Specialist / Software QA Test Engineer

Google
  • Designed and executed manual and exploratory functional test cases for Google Maps and Wear OS features across Agile sprint cycles
  • Validated user stories and acceptance criteria against defined requirements
  • Captured and analyzed device logs using ADB and USB debugging to diagnose issues, reproduce defects, and support root cause investigation
  • Performed API testing using Postman and wrote Python and SQL scripts to validate request and response payloads, status codes, and backend data consistency
  • Conducted usability and accessibility testing using assistive technologies including NVDA, JAWS, TalkBack, and VoiceOver, ensuring compliance with accessibility standards
  • Tracked and managed defects in JIRA through the full lifecycle, from discovery to resolution verification, maintaining complete traceability
  • Built Power BI dashboards to visualize test results, defect trends, and quality metrics, translating complex data into clear insights for engineering and product stakeholders
  • Contributed to CI/CD validation processes supporting release readiness
Aug 2018 — Nov 2019Austin, TX

Fleet Response Specialist / Remote Assistance Dispatch (RAD)

Waymo
  • Served as Remote Assistance Dispatcher for live, driverless Waymo autonomous vehicles, providing real-time human input and situational clarity to help vehicles interpret complex road environments and make safe operational decisions
  • Built path solutions for stuck vehicles within the 3D-rendered vehicle environment, using MPT and multi-point trajectory construction around obstructions to safely restore autonomous operation
  • Acted as on-shift point of contact for fleet escalations, monitoring driverless vehicle missions and intervening with precision guidance when autonomous systems encountered edge cases, ambiguous scenarios, or safety-critical situations
  • Executed structured simulation scenarios and validation tests to expand autonomous vehicle operational capabilities, evaluating system responses and documenting outcomes
  • Maintained rigorous accuracy, speed, and safety standards across all remote assistance interactions, operating in a fast-paced, safety-first environment where response quality directly impacted vehicle and public safety
  • Recorded and tracked all escalations and driverless mission events accurately
  • Supported staging, setup, and pre-mission checks to ensure vehicle readiness before engaging driverless operations
  • Contributed to a pilot program monitoring human fatigue signs in drivers and co-pilots supervising autonomous vehicle operations, developing qualification criteria and annotated data to support AI training for operator safety and alertness detection
  • Trained new Remote Assistance Dispatchers on operational procedures and escalation protocols
Mar 2018 — Aug 2021Austin, TX

Trust & Safety Quality Analyst / Data Validation Specialist

YouTube (Google)
  • Performed large-scale quality analysis and validation of content moderation workflows, supporting enforcement of platform policies at global scale
  • Analyzed moderation decisions and reviewer outputs to identify systemic quality gaps, policy edge cases, and patterns of inconsistent enforcement
  • Conducted calibration and quality audits measuring accuracy, agreement rates, and reviewer drift to inform corrective actions
  • Tracked and analyzed Trust & Safety performance metrics including accuracy, error rates, and escalation trends to surface emerging risks and improvement opportunities
  • Partnered with policy, operations, and quality leadership to translate findings into actionable recommendations, contributing to guideline refinements and workflow improvements
  • Documented defects, trends, and risk areas in JIRA, supporting continuous improvement initiatives and governance reviews
  • Produced evidence-backed summaries and insights supporting decision-making by quality leads and program stakeholders
Jul 2017 — Oct 2017Austin, TX

Data Quality & Trust and Safety Specialist

Apple Maps
  • Validated large-scale geospatial Points of Interest (POI) datasets supporting Apple Maps, ensuring data integrity, accuracy, and compliance with quality standards
  • Analyzed structured and unstructured geospatial data to identify anomalies, inconsistencies, duplicates, and high-risk data patterns affecting user trust
  • Designed and executed SQL-based validation and audit queries to surface systemic data quality issues across multi-source datasets
  • Partnered with data engineering and quality teams to translate analytical findings into remediation strategies, improving dataset reliability
  • Developed repeatable validation workflows and reporting artifacts that improved risk detection and data governance across regions
  • Reduced manual review effort and improved quality signal detection through targeted automation and analytical checks
Jul 2015 — Jan 2017San Francisco, CA

Jr. Test Engineer, Mobile & Hardware QA

Nexar Inc.
  • Designed and executed functional, regression, and scenario-based testing for AI-powered dash cameras and companion mobile apps on iOS and Android, ensuring stability, performance, and video data synchronization
  • Validated video capture, playback integrity, and media transfer workflows across mobile and web interfaces
  • Tested video performance under varying network conditions including Wi-Fi and mobile data to verify buffering behavior, upload reliability, and playback consistency
  • Wrote and maintained Python scripts to build data-driven test utilities that simulated real-world video capture and connectivity scenarios, improving defect reproducibility
  • Conducted detailed root cause analysis of video sync issues, frame drops, timestamp mismatches, and firmware-related playback anomalies
  • Collaborated with development teams to reproduce streaming and upload defects, providing detailed logs and reproduction steps
  • Integrated automated test execution into CI pipelines, increasing test coverage and accelerating validation cycles
  • Reduced test cycle time by 25% through automation and structured test execution improvements

Work

StandUp

Daily execution, accountability, and a social layer built around keeping your word

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A Next.js app that turns intentions into a closed loop — plan tomorrow, execute today, close the day honestly, and carry forward what's left — now extended into a full social accountability platform where you can share your progress, assign goals to others, and hold each other to it.

Engineering notes

  • Postgres Row-Level Security is the only access-control layer — there's no service-role key anywhere in the project, including the one server API route, which calls Supabase with the requesting user's own token
  • State is computed on read wherever possible (streaks, points totals, notification counts) instead of stored and risking drift
  • Every cross-user read/write (goal assignments, mentions, sharing) goes through security-definer functions that re-validate authorization server-side, never trusting the client
  • Vitest for unit/smoke tests, deployed on Vercel with auto-deploy on push to main
Full feature list

Core execution loop

  • Plan Tomorrow → Review Today → Close Day → Carry Forward, with goals, checklists, file attachments, and a full chronological timeline per goal (status changes, reschedules, notes — one real history, not scattered logs)
  • Streaks computed live from closed daily plans, never a stored counter that can drift; a points system backed by an event log, totals derived by sum
  • A level system and unlockable achievement badges layered on top of points, streaks, and lifetime stats
  • Weekly “streak passes” — two forgiven misses per week for a 5-of-7 pace, spendable retroactively on a missed day or proactively on a future one (cover tomorrow in advance and it closes itself automatically, with anything still drafted on it rescheduled forward for you)
  • Recurring goal templates (tap-to-add suggestion chips) and long-term, target-dated goals as a Backlog extension

Social layer

  • Connections: send/accept requests, a discovery feed to find people, and a privacy toggle to opt out of being discoverable at all
  • A unified feed (goal “glimpses,” achievement unlocks, and freeform motivational posts — text, photo, or video) with reactions, threaded comments and replies, and @mentions that notify the person tagged
  • Share any visible post directly to one of your connections, extending its visibility within your own network without leaking it further
  • Goal assignments: hand one of your own goals to a connection, who can accept or decline it; once accepted it materializes as their own independent goal (with your checklist/attachments carried over). Assignments are shared (fully independent) or exclusive (locks you out of your own copy once accepted) by choice — and either side can retract or cancel later, pulling the goal back off both people's day and notifying the other with a reason
  • Admin moderation tools (full visibility past normal privacy rules, removal, audit log) and a first-time community-guidelines gate, since the feed is meant to stay motivational

AI assistant

  • A Dashboard assistant for plain-language goal actions, with voice input and a small fixed tool set (including a delete tool that always confirms first)
  • Runs on a free Gemini tier by default with Anthropic as a paid fallback, behind one normalized provider interface — a genuinely free feature with a hard usage cap, not a cost center

Everything else

  • Full English/Spanish localization, built from scratch as a lightweight React context (no i18n library) — the English dictionary is the source of truth, and the build fails if a string ships untranslated
  • A cohesive dark-mode-first, LED/seven-segment visual identity applied across the entire app, with per-profile theme preference and an app-wide icon system (no emoji-as-UI)
  • Role-based admin tooling (Member/Admin/Sys Admin), landing-page analytics, and growth stats

Built with Next.js 16 (App Router, TypeScript), Tailwind CSS v4, Supabase (Postgres, Auth, Storage), Vercel.

In design and development

Fully scoped products with completed briefs, user stories, and business planning.

TrackApplyJob application managementIn active development
Desktop-first application for managing job applications end to end. Email intake via a unique forwarding address auto-creates or updates records from forwarded job emails, with tiered match-confidence logic (exact, partial, and recruiter-identity-only, in both directions). A recruiter and contact hub surfaces every linked application, communication, and status in one place, and AI resume-fit analysis checks a resume against a job description using the candidate profile as source of truth. 21 user stories and a phased roadmap complete, with IP protection and patent strategy assessed ahead of build.
PrivéPremium by-the-hour chauffeur bookingConcept
A chauffeur who drives your own vehicle and is exclusively yours for the booking window, waiting while you shop, holding your spot, learning your preferences over time. Two-tier pricing, membership packages with pre-purchased hours, and corporate accounts, on a platform commission model. Serves corporate executives, luxury vehicle owners, license-restricted drivers, affluent professionals, event attendees, and elderly clients who own vehicles but no longer drive. Completed 11-section business plan covering service model, unit economics, chauffeur vetting, legal and insurance risk, and a three-phase go-to-market strategy.
Let's Go Y'allGroup trip planning with collective paymentConcept
Solves the two things that kill group trips: nobody agrees, and nobody pays. An organizer invites members and proposes activities and bookings, the group votes to approve, and every member pays their share upfront before the trip funds and books. Stripe Connect embedded checkout as the primary payment path, deliberately chosen to avoid handling banking data directly, with Venmo, Cash App, and PayPal links as fallback. Planned for web, iOS, and Android on a shared backend, with vendor partnerships envisioned after MVP traction.
InvitelyPrintable invitations with digital RSVPConcept
Physical keepsake cards carrying embedded QR codes that bridge to digital RSVP tracking, closing the gap between a printed invitation and live guest-list management. Full brand identity, product brief, and interactive React prototype complete. A provisional patent opportunity was identified for the physical-to-digital QR bridge concept.

Skills

Validation and compliance
Computer System Validation (CSV), IQ/OQ/PQ, Process Validation, Equipment Qualification, Validation Plans and Summary Reports, Requirements Traceability, Risk Assessment, Change Control, CAPA and Deviation Management, Audit Readiness
Regulatory frameworks
FDA 21 CFR Part 11, FDA 21 CFR Part 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, GAMP 5, GxP, SaMD
Testing
Manual, Functional, Regression, Integration, UAT, Exploratory, Smoke and Sanity, Accessibility, Defect Triage and Lifecycle Management, Test Automation (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress), API Testing (Postman)
Data and analysis
Python, SQL, Power BI, Data Integrity Validation, Data Profiling, Root Cause Analysis
Building
React, Next.js, JavaScript, Supabase, Stripe Connect, Git and GitHub, UI/UX Design, Product Specification and User Stories
Platforms and tools
JIRA, Confluence, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Azure AD, Jenkins
AI-assisted workflows
Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, AI-assisted test scoping and generation

Education and credentials

Full Stack Web Development Certificate
University of Texas at Austin, 2020
Data Analytics
Vijay Computer Academy (in progress)
BSc, Sciences of Language and Didactics
Abderrehmane Mira University, 2010
Linguistics and Didactics, Graduate Coursework
Paris Descartes University, 2011

Languages

French
Fluent
English
Fluent
Arabic
Fluent
Berber
Native

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