Work Experience
My professional journey in software development
Software Engineer Intern
Cisco Systems - Duo Security
San Francisco, CA
May 2024 - August 2024
- Improved an internal performance testing tool by adding a feature using Python, AWS EC2, and MySQL to dynamically create simulated customers and production HTTP requests.
- Executed load testing suites with GitHub CI/CD pipelines to monitor and validate software release performance metrics for 50k users using Datadog, Grafana, and Kibana dashboards for observability and incident response.
- Diagnosed and fixed deployment issues in Kubernetes clusters with Python and Docker, contributing to improved system reliability and reducing the risk of service degradation or on-call incidents.
Software Engineer Intern
Stealth Startup
Remote
May 2023 - August 2023
- Designed and implemented a REST API for a distributed, fault tolerant, consistent, and sharded key-value store using Go and Docker.
- Utilized Goroutines for concurrency when handling client and internal HTTP requests for system communication.
- Developed resharding algorithm and internal API routes to support dynamic replica coordination and data rebalancing, and Bash scripts to automate setup/teardown processes to improve development efficiency by 30%.
Machine Learning Engineer
Applied Machine Learning Lab
Santa Cruz, CA
September 2020 - August 2021
- Led the design and training efforts of various neural network model architectures to make predictions based on time-series data with PyTorch.
- Achieved 95% accuracy as measured by model validation metrics by tuning machine learning models with hyperparameter optimization, regularization, and pruning.
- Reduced model training time by 50% by improving data processing pipeline and distributing training in a Kubernetes GPU cloud cluster.
Frontend Software Engineer
Resilient Renewable Efficient Energy Systems
Santa Cruz, CA
July 2020 - September 2020
- Built a user interface to register IoT devices using React, JavaScript, and AWS S3 for data storage in collaboration with hardware and product teams.
- Coordinated end to end integration with backend services on AWS EC2, ensuring smooth device onboarding and monitoring workflows.
- Raised user experience and accessibility scores by 17% based on Lighthouse audits by optimizing data handling, adding client-side input validation, and implementing UI fixes.
Education
My academic background and certifications
Masters of Science in Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
August 2023 - December 2024
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
September 2018 - June 2022
Technical Skills
Technologies and tools I work with
Languages
Assembly
C
C++
Go
HTML/CSS
Java
Javascript
Python
Frameworks/Libraries
Agile
Gin
Keras
NumPy
PyTorch
React
TensorFlow
pandas
scikit-learn
Developer Tools
Atlassian
Docker
Git
Jira
Kubernetes
Linux/Unix
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Slack
Terraform
Featured Projects
Some of my recent work and side projects
Connect4 Artificial Intelligence Agent
An AI agent that plays Connect4 against a real user, a random move player, or another AI.
Python