{ "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json", "basics": { "name": "David Antwi", "label": "Software Engineer", "email": "david.antwi@yale.edu", "url": "https://davidantwi.vercel.app", "summary": "I build AI systems and full-stack products that real people use, from a platform running in 30+ countries to the autonomy stack for Yale's Mars rover.", "location": { "city": "New Haven", "region": "CT", "countryCode": "US" }, "profiles": [ { "network": "GitHub", "username": "Alienware2000", "url": "https://github.com/Alienware2000" }, { "network": "LinkedIn", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-antwi-b17727205/" }, { "network": "X", "username": "antwidavid389", "url": "https://x.com/antwidavid389" } ] }, "work": [ { "name": "BENMP", "position": "Software Engineer, Tech Team (AI and Full-Stack)", "description": "Part-time · International organization, 30+ countries", "startDate": "2026-07", "highlights": [ "Built and launched the organization's partner management platform, now holding 16,000+ partners across 30+ countries and used by admins at 100 regional hubs (TypeScript, Next.js, Supabase).", "Built mobile money payment reconciliation, plus guardrailed, provider-agnostic WhatsApp automation.", "Built a grounded, read-only AI assistant over partner data: code computes every figure, the model only explains it.", "Archived 26,000+ legacy records with zero loss, then took the hub platform from Ghana to 30+ countries in a month." ], "keywords": [ "Next.js", "TypeScript", "Supabase", "PostgreSQL", "Twilio" ] }, { "name": "Yale Mars Rover Team", "position": "Autonomy Lead", "description": "University Rover Challenge 2027 · Yale Undergraduate Robotics", "startDate": "2026-09", "highlights": [ "Built the ROS 2 mission state machine for both autonomy missions, with command guards, cancellation, timeouts, and stale-result rejection, in a package with 91 tests (Python).", "Integrated missions with Nav2 navigation and the team's fused localization in Gazebo, and fixed a GPS initialization race that could corrupt position estimates.", "Set up ARM64 and x86-64 Docker environments and GitHub Actions build and test pipelines for the team." ], "keywords": [ "ROS 2", "Python", "Nav2", "Gazebo", "Docker", "GitHub Actions" ] }, { "name": "O'Hern Lab, Yale Mechanical Engineering", "position": "Undergraduate Researcher", "description": "Industry-sponsored drone swarm project · New Haven, CT", "startDate": "2026-09", "highlights": [ "Own sim-to-real transfer for a 4-drone Crazyflie swarm trained with reinforcement learning in simulation, so policies behave the same on real drones.", "Wrote the team's literature review of 30+ papers on sim-to-real methods for quadrotors and swarms, comparing simulators and transfer approaches for our hardware." ], "keywords": [ "Python", "ROS 2", "Crazyswarm2", "Reinforcement learning" ] }, { "name": "Beakr, Inc. (Stealth Startup)", "position": "Software Engineering Intern", "description": "AI memory platform for life sciences research · New York, NY", "startDate": "2026-05", "endDate": "2026-08", "highlights": [ "Designed and shipped Beakr Interviews, an AI system that finds gaps in a lab's knowledge base, interviews the right researcher by text or voice, and turns answers into cited wiki entries (Python, Postgres, Redis Streams, per-organization feature flags).", "Led the computer-use desktop agent: rebuilt search over 80K+ files, made every answer cite its source file, and got it running reliably on Windows by fixing 35 release-blocking defects (Rust).", "Extended the desktop agent to launch and supervise coding agents (Claude Code, Codex) on the user's computer, with explicit approval before each run and a full audit log.", "Built the agent's write access to 19 external services, with scoped permissions and user confirmation before every action." ], "keywords": [ "Rust", "Python", "Postgres", "Redis Streams", "Agents" ] }, { "name": "SynovAI", "position": "Software Engineering Intern", "description": "AI retrosynthesis startup · New Haven, CT · via Yale Helix Fellowship", "startDate": "2025-10", "endDate": "2026-05", "highlights": [ "Designed and built a vendor-aware stock filtering feature that shows researchers only routes whose starting materials are purchasable, across 5 vendor catalogs of 2.5M+ compounds.", "Built a chemical-safety layer that pulls GHS hazard data from PubChem and flags hazards on each molecule in a route.", "Built a self-serve fine-tuning pipeline (PyTorch, QLoRA) covering validation, training, and automated evaluation.", "Led a UI/UX overhaul of the researcher platform (React, Next.js), redesigning the settings and results views." ], "keywords": [ "Python", "PyTorch", "React", "Next.js" ] }, { "name": "The Faboratory, Yale", "position": "Undergraduate Research Intern", "description": "Soft robotics lab · New Haven, CT", "startDate": "2025-08", "endDate": "2026-05", "highlights": [ "Worked on smart wearable systems that combine sensors, soft actuators, and machine learning for adaptive motion support.", "Wrote the C++ firmware for an upper-body soft exosuit sensing rig: four BNO085 IMUs behind an I2C multiplexer, capacitive touch sensing, a custom quaternion library, and joint-angle estimation." ], "keywords": [ "C++", "Embedded", "IMUs", "Sensor fusion" ] } ], "volunteer": [ { "organization": "Yale AI Association", "position": "Project Director", "startDate": "2026-08", "summary": "Run the project teams program that places undergraduates on semester-long teams building applied AI." }, { "organization": "Yale Model African Union", "position": "Lead Developer · Committee Chair", "startDate": "2025-11", "summary": "Rebuilt the conference site and built the registration platform (4,000+ delegates and 109 delegations for YMAU VI), and chaired a 30-delegate committee at the Accra conference." }, { "organization": "Yale Africa Innovation Symposium", "position": "Student Ambassador, Tech & AI Innovation Lab", "startDate": "2026-01", "endDate": "2026-04", "summary": "Co-led a two-day AI founder simulation that won Best Innovation Lab at YAIS IV." }, { "organization": "Goldman Sachs", "position": "Emerging Leaders Series Fellow", "startDate": "2026-01", "endDate": "2026-04", "summary": "Built the CAPM engine for Northline, a mutual fund calculator for first-time investors, on a six-person team." }, { "organization": "Yale Computer Society", "position": "Software Developer · Catalyst Mentor", "startDate": "2025-09", "summary": "Contribute to the Yale Meals app, and mentored 5 students from their first React project to a deployed build." } ], "education": [ { "institution": "Yale University", "area": "B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science", "endDate": "2028-05", "courses": [ "Coursework: Data Structures, Systems Programming, Software Engineering, Full-Stack Web, Intro to Machine Learning, Intro to AI, HCI, Linear Algebra, Discrete Math" ] }, { "institution": "Columbia University in Paris", "area": "Summer immersion, Accelerated Intermediate French", "endDate": "2025-00", "courses": [] } ], "awards": [ { "title": "1st Place", "awarder": "YaleAI x SpaceXAI Cursor Build Challenge", "date": "2026", "summary": "Better Office Hours" }, { "title": "Best Use of Cursor", "awarder": "Ramp Builders Cup", "date": "2026", "summary": "TicketDodge" }, { "title": "2nd Place", "awarder": "Google x Yale SOM Build with AI Hackathon", "date": "2026", "summary": "Ocura" }, { "title": "Best Innovation Lab", "awarder": "Yale Africa Innovation Symposium IV", "date": "2026", "summary": "Tech & AI Lab" }, { "title": "Catapult Fellow", "awarder": "Prometheus X", "date": "2026", "summary": "$5,000 grant" }, { "title": "YC Startup School", "awarder": "Y Combinator", "date": "2026", "summary": "Selected from 30,000+ applicants" }, { "title": "Emerging Leaders Series", "awarder": "Goldman Sachs", "date": "2026", "summary": "Selected fellow" }, { "title": "Helix Fellow", "awarder": "Yale Helix", "date": "2025", "summary": "Student-run startup incubator" }, { "title": "ISEF Finalist", "awarder": "International Science and Engineering Fair", "date": "2023", "summary": "Imitation learning research" }, { "title": "Science Champion Award", "awarder": "USAID", "date": "2023", "summary": "Science for international development" }, { "title": "Silver Award", "awarder": "Eskom Expo International Science Fair", "date": "2021", "summary": "Imitation learning research" } ], "skills": [ { "name": "Languages", "keywords": [ "Python", "Java", "JavaScript/TypeScript", "C++", "C", "Rust" ] }, { "name": "Frameworks & Libraries", "keywords": [ "React", "Next.js", "React Native", "FastAPI", "Flask", "Spring Boot", "PyTorch", "Anthropic SDK", "ROS 2" ] }, { "name": "Tools", "keywords": [ "PostgreSQL", "Supabase", "Redis", "Docker", "Git", "CI/CD", "Linux", "Hugging Face", "Claude Code", "Cursor" ] } ], "languages": [ { "language": "English", "fluency": "Native" }, { "language": "French", "fluency": "Limited working" } ], "projects": [ { "name": "Better Office Hours", "description": "A real-time voice tutor that talks students through concepts and problems while drawing diagrams and equations on a live whiteboard or highlighting their uploaded notes. It gives hints, not answers.", "highlights": [ "1st place · YaleAI x SpaceXAI Cursor Build Challenge", "Custom SVG whiteboard engine with local LaTeX rendering and keyframe animations timed to the agent's speech.", "Voice loop with on-device speech detection, ElevenLabs transcription and speech, and interruption-safe turn-taking." ], "keywords": [ "Next.js", "TypeScript", "ElevenLabs", "Voice AI" ], "url": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/better-office-hours", "repository": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/better-office-hours", "type": "ai" }, { "name": "Intentionality", "description": "A gamified productivity platform for students: quests, XP, streaks, focus sessions, and friend accountability, with an AI planner grounded in your calendar and coursework.", "highlights": [ "300+ users", "AI planner with failover across two LLM providers.", "Syncs with Google Calendar and Canvas; row-level security on every table." ], "keywords": [ "Next.js", "TypeScript", "Supabase", "LLMs" ], "url": "https://intentionality.io", "repository": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/intentionality", "type": "ai" }, { "name": "Cloud Coding Agent", "description": "A coding agent in a cloud sandbox that never grades its own homework. It writes a definition of done, builds, then a second agent with fresh context and read-only access tests the running app and shows evidence for every check.", "highlights": [ "Screenshots and verdicts are captured and computed by the harness, never by the model.", "Built an eval that grades the verifier with ground-truth probes and repeated trials. Its first run caught a real false pass, which I fixed mechanically." ], "keywords": [ "TypeScript", "Agents", "Evals", "Sandboxes" ], "url": "https://cloud-coding-agent-tau.vercel.app", "type": "ai" }, { "name": "BENMP Partner Platform", "description": "The partner management system for an international nonprofit. Hub admins upload spreadsheets through a validating import wizard; the office reconciles giving and messages partners from one console.", "highlights": [ "16,000+ partners · 97 hubs", "Excel/CSV import wizard with identical client and server validation and per-country phone parsing.", "Bank and mobile money statement reconciliation, and a read-only AI assistant that only explains numbers the code computed." ], "keywords": [ "Next.js", "Supabase", "PostgreSQL", "Twilio" ], "url": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/benmp-prm", "repository": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/benmp-prm", "type": "product" }, { "name": "Mars Rover Autonomy", "description": "The autonomy stack for Yale's Mars rover: navigation, a mission coordinator, and the tooling to see what the robot was thinking after every run.", "highlights": [ "Mission state machine for both autonomy missions with guards, cancellation, timeouts, and 91 tests.", "Nav2 navigation on fused localization in Gazebo, with Foxglove record and replay to debug every run." ], "keywords": [ "ROS 2", "Nav2", "Python", "Gazebo", "Foxglove" ], "type": "robotics" }, { "name": "Ocura", "description": "Smart glasses software for people who are blind or have low vision: a voice-in, voice-out assistant that describes the scene and can keep looking for an object in the background.", "highlights": [ "2nd place · Google x Yale SOM Build with AI Hackathon" ], "keywords": [ "Python", "Vision", "Voice AI" ], "type": "ai" }, { "name": "TicketDodge", "description": "A map that predicts your odds of getting a parking ticket in New York, built on NYC Open Data.", "highlights": [ "Best Use of Cursor · Ramp Builders Cup" ], "keywords": [ "Next.js", "Python", "Leaflet", "Open data" ], "url": "https://ticketdodge.vercel.app", "repository": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/ticketdodge", "type": "product" }, { "name": "Ember Run", "description": "A 2D anime parkour game about flow and momentum. Six characters with distinct kits, three chapters, boss fights, and music synthesized in code.", "highlights": [], "keywords": [ "Phaser 3", "JavaScript", "WebAudio" ], "url": "https://ember-run.vercel.app", "type": "game" }, { "name": "YMAU Registration and Review Desk", "description": "Conference site, Stripe registration, and a blind-review desk for delegate applications and financial aid. 4,000+ delegates and 109 delegations signed up for YMAU VI so far.", "highlights": [], "keywords": [ "Next.js", "Stripe", "PostgreSQL" ], "url": "https://www.yalemodelau.org", "type": "product" }, { "name": "YMAU Delegate Training Platform", "description": "Video training platform for 335+ delegates, with watch-time tracking that merges watched segments so skipping ahead does not count, quizzes, and QR-verifiable certificates.", "highlights": [], "keywords": [ "Next.js", "Firebase", "TypeScript" ], "type": "product" }, { "name": "HJC Portal", "description": "A conference logistics portal that replaced spreadsheets: access-code login, three roles, itineraries, an audit log, and PDF/CSV export.", "highlights": [], "keywords": [ "Next.js", "Supabase" ], "url": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/HJC-Portal", "repository": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/HJC-Portal", "type": "product" }, { "name": "African Allied Health Network", "description": "A private networking platform for an allied healthcare summit community: profiles, a searchable directory, connections, and realtime messaging. Installable as a phone app.", "highlights": [], "keywords": [ "Next.js", "Supabase", "PWA" ], "type": "product" }, { "name": "Press Archive", "description": "A research tool that turns exported news articles into a searchable archive, then uses an LLM to code tone and events, with human-agreement checks.", "highlights": [], "keywords": [ "Next.js", "PostgreSQL", "Python", "Claude" ], "type": "ai" }, { "name": "Northline", "description": "A mutual fund calculator for first-time investors that forecasts returns with CAPM. Built in the Goldman Sachs Emerging Leaders Series.", "highlights": [], "keywords": [ "Java", "Spring Boot", "React" ], "type": "product" }, { "name": "Biomedical Research Agent", "description": "A command-line research agent that answers biomedical questions with tools over PubMed, OpenAlex, UniProt, and the Protein Data Bank.", "highlights": [], "keywords": [ "Python", "Claude", "Tool use" ], "url": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/biomedical-research-agent", "repository": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/biomedical-research-agent", "type": "ai" }, { "name": "Game Agents", "description": "Agent loops built from scratch, no frameworks: custom grid worlds, a tool interface, a planner, and an MCP server so any client can play.", "highlights": [], "keywords": [ "Python", "Agents", "MCP" ], "url": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/game-agents", "repository": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/game-agents", "type": "ai" }, { "name": "CircleBack", "description": "A voice-first networking CRM: talk about who you met, and it builds a 3D knowledge graph of your network.", "highlights": [], "keywords": [ "Next.js", "FastAPI", "MongoDB", "ElevenLabs" ], "url": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/CircleBack", "repository": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/CircleBack", "type": "ai" }, { "name": "ExoSense", "description": "Multi-sensor firmware for calibrating an upper-body soft exosuit: four IMUs, capacitive sensing, and joint-angle estimation on a Feather nRF52840.", "highlights": [], "keywords": [ "C++", "Embedded", "IMUs" ], "url": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/FaboIMUrig", "repository": "https://github.com/Alienware2000/FaboIMUrig", "type": "robotics" }, { "name": "Imitation Learning Agents", "description": "High school research on teaching simulated agents by imitation instead of slow trial-and-error reinforcement learning. 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