Summary
Athena S is a Marketing Engineer and AI product builder based in San Diego who turns LLM-driven ideas into fast, usable prototypes across the full stack. She has delivered commercial integrations and dashboards for retail and ad platforms, a real-time clinical documentation app, and a forensic risk-management prototype, often using Cursor IDE, multi-agent patterns, and rapid AI pair-programming. As founder of LiaiZen she implemented a sophisticated mediation engine combining OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic agents with retrieval memory—an experiment born from a personal need that won Techstars Startup Weekend and reached the San Diego Angel Conference quarterfinals. She also designs and facilitates hands-on agentic engineering workshops for practitioners and leaders, emphasizing practical tool mastery alongside strategic AI literacy. With a background that spans recruiting, operations, and product engineering, she excels at translating messy real-world problems into pragmatic AI-enabled workflows.
2 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Economics, B.A., Economics at SDSU
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Integrative Hypnosis, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Integrative Hypnosis at Motivational Institute of Hypnotherapy
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at San Diego State University