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EXPERIENCES
DevOps Software Engineer
Solid State Scientific Corporation
Mar 2025 - Present
- Created build pipeline in Powershell for C++ distributed radar signal processing, saved team hours of compiling
- Designed and deployed 3 multi-zones, low-latency data ingestion pipelines, using Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Deployed an internal knowledge base for 20+ engineers to AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service using Terraform and Helm
- Automated enterprise Jenkins controller creation using Config-as-Code, reduced creation time from 2 days to 15 mins
- Deployed monitoring and alerting system using AWS CloudWatch with custom metrics for proactive incident resolution
Software Engineer
2Witech Solutions
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
- Developed automating real-time detection and analysis of PFAS in water in Python, saved team 3 hours per running
- Solution processes time-series sensor data, applies data techniques to ensure accuracy, reliability in monitoring outcome
Co-Founder
Cocoon
Jul 2021 - Jan 2025
- Delivered a social platform connecting social-anxious community for confidence-building journey with AI coaching
- Secured $3,000 in grant funding from startup pitching competitions.
- Led end-to-end system design, architecture decisions, and iterative prototyping across frontend, and backend
Software Engineer Intern
Solomon Consulting Group
May 2024 - Aug 2024
- Built home energy analytics engine in Python, personalized recommendations from pool of $100k+ energy incentives
- Utilized Levenshtein distance algorithm, and statistical modeling on 10+ data points for energy consumption analysis
- Participated in peer-programming and weekly code review, learned Agile and best practices in software development
@HackUMass & @Hack(H)er413
June 2022 - December 2024 | Amherst, MA
- After being a participant for many hackathons in high school and winning a few, I decided to take the next step and become an organizer for HackUMass X !
- In a team of 7 developers, we were tasked to maintain the website for HackUMass X.
- I was the first to resolve more than 15 issues for both the frontend and backend in just 2 weeks into the project!
- During the 36-hour event, I was able to utilize my past experience (as a participant) and skills in Python, JavaScript to help guide the participants in their projects.
- I also took the advantage of this opportunity and my hobby for photography to take photos of the event.
- Many were so grateful for my help that they asked for a photo with me!
- After the success of HackUMass X and many positive feedback from participants, I decided to volunteer as a lead mentor for Hack(H)er413 2023 to help provide guidance and support to pro-women, pro-LGBTQ+ hackers.
- With the success of HackUMass X and the recognition of my mentoring efforts at Hack(H)er413 2023, I was promoted to the Director of Technology for HackUMass XI.
- Along with leading the technology team, I had a wonderful opportunity to work with multiple teams to help coordinate the event!
- Under my leadership, the team was able to successfully resolve more than 30 issues and implemented 10 new features creating a smooth experience for the participants to register and submit their projects.
- When the mentorship system failed to work, I took the initiative to become the light house for all of issues and questions from the participants.
- Before the system was fixed, I resolved around 60% of the issues related to ReactJS, Flask, and Firebase.
- Many were able to submit their projects on time and one even won the Best Security Hack!
- Confident in my ReactJS skills, I registered to lead a workshop on 'Introduction to ReactJS' for more than 800 participants and it was a success!
- This year, HackUMass was very lucky to host over 800 participants across New England! As the Co-Director, I helped serve as one of the main contact for many volunteers, mentors, and judges. I also worked with the CS Dean and faculty to expand the hackathon's reach across all majors, creating a more inclusive experience.
- I am looking forward to participating in more hackathons even after my graduation and possibly even start one of my own for underrepresented communities!
Now, let's talk about my
PROJECTS
DCaaS - Distributed Compression as a Service
Engineered an event-driven file compression platform using Go for parallel processing of large datasets, integrating Google Pub/Sub and Kubernetes for orchestration and management. Developed an observability pipeline with Google Operations Suite and automated testing, containerization, and deployment via a GitOps CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions.
EnciphDeWord
A Python-based command-line application designed to help beginners explore and understand classic cryptography. It implements various ciphers like Affine Cipher, Hill Digraph Cipher, and Vigenère Square, and includes installation instructions and a TODO list for future enhancements.
Caption This!
Built a web-based multiplayer caption-battle game using Python over bidirectional TCP connection, WebSocket, and utilized Redis for low-latency state synchronization and NGINX as an application load balancer. Automated microservice deployment on Google Kubernetes using Skaffold for high availability.
Hordes.io Auto Grinding Bot
An auto-grinding bot for the game hordes.io, developed using Python and Selenium. It automates in-game actions such as attacking, defending, enemy searching, random movement, and automatic respawning.
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