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November 26, 2025 8:28pm ET
Applying:
Harvard Business School,
Penn / Wharton,
Stanford GSB
Intake Year:
2026
Pre-MBA Career:
Software Engineer
Post MBA Career:
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)
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