I'm Moss, a full-ride Software Engineering student at Iowa State University and winner of NASA's 2024 App Development Challenge. I've shipped AI applications for fortune 500 companies and led a national winning lunar exploration project.

Contracted AI Software Engineer

Principal Financial Group · Jun 2024 – Aug 2024

• Selected as the first high school engineer to join Principal's software teams
• Built a full-stack AI PDF processing platform using AWS Bedrock (Titan Text v2)
• Implemented RAG with transparent chunk highlighting for traceability
• Demoed to senior engineers, executives, and CEO Dan Houston

Software Engineering Intern (Incoming 2026)

John Deere Headquarters · May 2026 – Jul 2026

• Building production-grade AI pipelines for large-scale industrial systems
• Migrating LangGraph workflows onto Google's A2A framework
• Designing high-speed retrieval paths with Postgres and vector search

AI PDF Processing Platform

Contracted AI Software Engineer · Principal Financial Group · Jun 2024 – Aug 2024

Built an end-to-end AI platform to ingest PDFs, chunk + embed content, and power traceable RAG with evidence highlighting.

• RAG pipeline with transparent chunk highlighting
• AWS Bedrock (Titan Text + Embeddings) + vector storage
• Shipped for stakeholders and demoed to leadership

NASA South Pole Lunar Exploration App

Lead Coder & Game Developer · Oct 2023 – Apr 2024

Led development of an AI-assisted lunar rover simulator using real lunar south pole terrain constraints and mission-oriented exploration workflows.

• National winner — NASA App Development Challenge
• Interactive exploration / simulation experience
• Designed for storytelling + demo mode stability