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EXPERIENCES
Mobile Engineering Intern
Solomon Consulting Group, LLC
May 2024 - Aug 2024
- Enabled households to access $100,000+ in savings through energy efficiency incentives and rebates by creating an online home energy assessment tool using data analytics and an advanced fuzzy keyword matching algorithm.
- Connected 500+ low-income households with 100+ minority-owned renewable energy businesses for energy-efficient home upgrades in Massachusetts, Georgia, and North Carolina by developing iOS- and Android-compatible mobile app using React Native.
- Crafted wire-frames for the platform leveraging Figma and findings from user research to improve user engagement and satisfaction.
Co-Founder
Cocoon
Jul 2021 - May 2024
- Co-founded a social platform connecting socially-awkward individuals with personalized AI coaching for social skills improvement.
- Took on leading role in developing a full-stack application that is highly available and could scale to support 300+ active users.
- Attained 96.33% test coverage and 80% increase in development speed by implementing robust CI/CD pipeline and following test-driven development best practices.
Software Engineering Intern
MassEnergize
Jun 2023 - Sep 2023
- Improved accessibility and boosted community participation in climate actions by building the mobile version of the web-based dashboard application, compatible for both iOS and Android users.
- Reduced on-boarding time for future engineers by 75% by collaborating with the back-end team to create a comprehensive API documentation, detailing over 200 API endpoints, data models, system architectures.
- Resolved 10+ high-priority tickets in the back-end system, gaining proficiency in RESTful API development, and SDLC.
Mobile Engineering Intern
Solomon Consulting Group, LLC
May 2024 - Aug 2024
- Enabled households to access $100,000+ in savings through energy efficiency incentives and rebates by creating an online home energy assessment tool using data analytics and an advanced fuzzy keyword matching algorithm.
- Connected 500+ low-income households with 100+ minority-owned renewable energy businesses for energy-efficient home upgrades in Massachusetts, Georgia, and North Carolina by developing iOS- and Android-compatible mobile app using React Native.
- Crafted wire-frames for the platform leveraging Figma and findings from user research to improve user engagement and satisfaction.
Co-Founder
Cocoon
Jul 2021 - May 2024
- Co-founded a social platform connecting socially-awkward individuals with personalized AI coaching for social skills improvement.
- Took on leading role in developing a full-stack application that is highly available and could scale to support 300+ active users.
- Attained 96.33% test coverage and 80% increase in development speed by implementing robust CI/CD pipeline and following test-driven development best practices.
Software Engineering Intern
MassEnergize
Jun 2023 - Sep 2023
- Improved accessibility and boosted community participation in climate actions by building the mobile version of the web-based dashboard application, compatible for both iOS and Android users.
- Reduced on-boarding time for future engineers by 75% by collaborating with the back-end team to create a comprehensive API documentation, detailing over 200 API endpoints, data models, system architectures.
- Resolved 10+ high-priority tickets in the back-end system, gaining proficiency in RESTful API development, and SDLC.
@HackUMass & @Hack(H)er413
June 2022 - December 2024 | Amherst, MA
The origin
An Organizer of HackUMass X
- 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 !
Pre-HackUMass X
Developer/Maintainer of HackUMass X Website
- 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!
HackUMass X
Mentor/Photographer
- 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!
Hack(H)er413 2023
Mentor
- 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.
The pivotal point
Director of Technology of HackUMass XI
- 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!
Leadership
Team Lead
- 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.
HackUMass XI
Mentor/Workshop Lead
- 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!
HackUMass XII
Co-Director
- 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.
Next step?
More Hackathons!!
- I am looking forward to participating in more hackathons even after my graduation and possibly even start one of my own for underrepresented communities!
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