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November 26, 2025 3:28pm ET
Applying: Harvard Business School, UPenn / Wharton, Stanford GSB
Intake Year: 2026
Pre-MBA Career: Software Engineer
Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Entrepreneurship, Undecided Companies: Bain , BCG , McKinsey , Apple , Facebook , Google , LinkedIn , Microsoft , Uber
GRE: 333
GPA: 3.5
Years of Work Experience: 5
Location: NYC
Post MBA Location: New York City
Notes:

Work experience (full-time): 
* Startup 1 (3.5 yrs) – Sr SWE / tech lead / founding engineer at a Series B+ transportation startup. Tech lead for a ~10-person team, led engineers with 6–10 more YOE, presented regularly at 120-person all-hands.
* Startup 2 (1.5 yrs) – Sr SWE at a biotech startup focused on disease prevention that IPO’d during my tenure. 

Internships
* Apple – product design (2 summers, 2 patents)
* Google – technical program manager intern
* Tesla – manufacturing/mechanical design

Misc:
* I was accepted/enrolled to a MechE PhD in 2020 (AI adjacent, mostly a simulations phd) but withdrew before starting to take a founding engineer role — no regrets.
* Age: 30M, ORM (white)