Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison (Sep. 2019 - Dec. 2023)
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science | Cumulative GPA: 3.6/4.0 - Dean’s List Award | Madison, WI

  • Courses: Algorithms, Data Structures, Software Security, Distributed Systems, Networking, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Object-Oriented Programming, Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Computer Vision.

Experience

Back-end Software Engineer (Feb. 2024 - Present)
Capital One - Java, Spring Boot, Maven, Flink, Kafka, JUnit, OTEL, Docker, AWS | Atlanta, GA

  • Enhanced a big data pipeline using Java Spring to process and export new datasets to downstream data lakes, addressing challenges in parsing and aggregating streaming data at scale.
  • Programmed new data fields for a RESTful API to improve user experience, facing challenges with DynamoDB integration and Docker environment updates to ensure application security.
  • Designed and implemented unit testing for two microservices, achieving over 80% code coverage and leveraging object-oriented programming principles to ensure maintainable code.
  • Developed distributed tracing and metrics with Open Telemetry for three microservices, populating observability dashboards and overcoming reliability challenges in custom tracing on cloud infrastructure.
  • Collaborated with teammates to monitor production releases and debug production issues on-call.
  • Contributed to code reviews, architecture design discussions, and documentation on best practices.

Software Engineer Intern (June 2023 - Aug. 2023)
Capital One - JavaScript, React, Python, AWS | McLean, VA

  • Developed a React UI front-end to visualize datasets and knowledge graph data for customers.
  • Dealt with challenges such as displaying a graph data structure with hundreds of edges and nodes with JavaScript.
  • Created a Python application that summarizes internal documents, audio files, and videos using a LLM.
  • Overcame performance challenges caused by extracting text from large audio and video files

Software Engineer Intern (May 2022 - Aug. 2022)
State Farm - Python, PostgreSQL, AWS | Atlanta, GA

  • Implemented a REST API in Python that allows users to interact with actuarial models.
  • Developed SQL queries and an AWS Lambda function to make read and write calls to a PostgreSQL database.
  • Challenges include caching the API authentication for performance optimization and creating deployment pipelines in GitLab to deploy the application on AWS infrastructure.

Software Developer (May 2021 - May 2022)
Wisconsin National Primate Research Center - Python, Pandas

  • Designed and developed a Pygame application with twelve touchscreen games to record data for primate research.
  • Solved implementation challenges for algorithms that dealt with graphics rendering and manipulation.
  • Implemented batch processing automation for experimental data with Pandas and dealt with challenges such as file parsing thousands of data points

Projects

People Counter Device - Python (Aug. 2022 - Dec. 2023) \

  • Coded a Python application to track the number of people in a room on a Raspberry Pi for a student organization.
  • Integrated a Discord API, OpenCV model, and a webcam to update the count on multiple platforms in real-time.
  • Faced challenges integrating the program with the Discord API and optimizing the application to work within the limited computing resources of the Raspberry Pi.

Undergraduate Project Lab Coordinator (May 2021 - Dec. 2023) \

  • Helped lead a student organization focused on fostering personal coding projects. I tutored students, provided them resources to bootstrap projects, connected them with professionals, etc.
  • Organized 2 hackathons (150 participants) by securing sponsors, arranging judges, supervising contestants, etc.

Technical Skills

Languages:

  • Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL (Postgres), Golang, Rust, C, HTML/CSS

Libraries and Frameworks:

  • Spring Boot, Maven, Flink, Kafka, JUnit, OpenTelemetry, React, Pandas, OpenCV

Developer Tools and Platform:

  • Git, Docker, AWS, Databricks, Agile, CI/CD

Certifications:

  • Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect Associate (AWS SAA-CO3)

Publications

  • Implementation of automated cognitive testing systems for socially housed rhesus (Macaca mulatta) and squirrel (Saimiri spp.) monkeys: Age differences in learning. | link (2024)

Last updated: 03/30/2025