Hi, I'm Youdahe 🧑‍🚀

currently out of the country in japan

I love talking about systems and startups — let's chat

Student at Gustavus Adolphus College. I build stuff that works — currently into distributed systems and MCPs.

Experience

Incoming SWE Intern

May – Aug 2026

Liberty Mutual Insurance

Building the infrastructure that every engineer at a Fortune 100 company ships code on.

Software Engineer Intern

Aug 2025 – Present

Medica

Built Medica's first-ever AI onboarding assistant using vector DB and embeddings. Also built enrollment systems with Java and Spring Boot, boosting speed by 65%.

ML Research Assistant

Feb – Jun 2025

Gustavus Adolphus College

Built an ML-powered voice-guided form-completion system, reducing completion time from 60 to 15 minutes for visually impaired users.

ML Researcher

Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

Hugging Face

Ran LLM benchmarks across 10+ model configs and improved reproducible evaluation workflows through open-source contributions.

Software Engineer Intern

Aug 2023 – Aug 2024

Medtronic

Worked on the Touch Surgery ecosystem. Replaced manual Excel processes with Go and SQL pipelines, cutting data processing time by 50% for 8+ R&D teams.

Projects

docere

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Python FastAPI React PostgreSQL Qdrant Redis Claude LangGraph

Persistent semantic memory system — long-term context and recall for AI agents.

distributed db engine

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Rust Raft CRDTs

Multi-region database with LSM-tree storage, Raft consensus, configurable consistency, and automatic sharding.

container runtime

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Go Linux Networking

Container runtime and orchestrator from scratch — namespaces, cgroups, overlay fs, scheduler, and service mesh.

event streaming platform

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Go Kafka Stream Processing

Globally distributed commit log with exactly-once semantics, tiered storage, and stateful stream processing.