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Skills

• Proficient
• Knowledgeable

Work Experience

1. Software Engineer – Back-end

   Visa Inc. · Foster City, California

   Sept 2024 – Present

   • Developing offers and coupons distribution software system scaled to millions of users and supporting different client types, growing the platform from 0 to 21 major clients providing thousands of offers.
   • Designing, developing, and maintaining RESTful APIs for internal and outward-facing services.
   • Integrated GenAI to analyze and rank coupon descriptions surfaced to users, using LLMs.
   • Designed and owned a client facing service enabling configurations affecting the broader system behavior, partnered directly with Product to resolve issues and align on requirements for customers.
   • Led a team of 5 interns in a coding project that won the company-wide championship over 45 other teams.
   

2. Software Engineer Consultant

   Tata Consultancy Services · Santa Clara, California

   Sept 2021 – Jan 2024

   • Completed Python, Java, SQL, MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js internal training courses.
   

3. Software Engineer – Back-end

   Cisco · San Jose, California

   Feb 2022 – Nov 2023

   • Developed software with Python and XML for network management software for networks of 500,000+ network devices, with 10+ different network device types for Layer 2 and Layer 3.
   

4. Senior IT Technician

   University of Nevada, Reno · Reno, Nevada

   Sept 2019 – July 2021

   • Performed training and communication to team of 12 IT technicians as well as customer troubleshooting.
   

5. IT Technician

   University of Nevada, Reno · Reno, Nevada

   Sept 2018 – Sept 2019

   • Daily troubleshooting of IT issues with staff and students through phone, online chat, and remote sessions.
   

Education

1. Stanford University

   • Economic Analysis class — in pursuit of Decision Analysis graduate certificate
   • In future I hope to further pursue a masters degree
   

2. Honor's B.S. Computer Science and Engineering, Class of 2021

   University of Nevada, Reno

   • GPA of 3.70 / 4.00
   • Honors Degree
   • Minor in Business Administration
   • Minor in Mathematics

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Projects

SnowPass

checkthepass.com

Web application for live weather, traffic camera video, and department of transportation updates along a route

Role: Software Developer and Lead Contact

Team: Four other fourth year Computer Science majors

Description

Heavy snowfall, strong winds, and low temperatures are common during the winter in northern Nevada. Knowledge of relevant road conditions is vital for safe travel for drivers taking trips through these regions. This information is currently accessible through multiple different sources. SnowPass streamlines the gathering of road condition data and compiles it into one easy-to-use application. After choosing any two points in California or Nevada, SnowPass will show the best route then display route specific weather, live traffic camera video, and Department of Transportation Tweets, helping drivers stay safe and informed.

SnowPass summary video (presented by me) and demo

My Contribution

• Cooperatively designed and programed front-end components
• Led the team in presentation of the application to university staff and Reno community members
• Communicated with California and Nevada departments of transportation and other leading inteligent transportation systems engineers
• Used agile methodology with scrum and sprint planning, dynamically adapting to project requirements and restrictions
• Implemented weather and X (formally known as Twitter) APIs

Steel Bridge Inspection Robot

Robot designed to inspect steel structures for defects or degrading materials

Role: Business Analyst and Software Specialist

Team: One other civil engineer and one other electrical engineer

Description

Steel bridge inspection robot developed at the Advanced Robotics and Automation (ARA) Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno. The robot can climb on different steel bridge structures and collect visual and eddy current data for inspection. The eddy current data senses deep within the steel to detect defects and deterioration. Visual maps are then generated to show the condition of the steel.

Steel Bridge Inspection Robot pitch meeting

My Contribution

• Researched software components to be able to answer software related questions from potential stakeholders
• Cooperatively analyzed viability and created potential business plan for a steel bridge inspection robot company
• Analyzed potential share of market, serviceable available market, and total available market
• Led meeting with Pennsylvania Department of Transportation discussing potential viability of robot use

Personal Life

Early career Software Engineer working in the San Francisco Bay Area with experience in network technologies. Exploring options for domain specialization in the industry. Ideally heading towards smart city related technology development. Passionate about software and hardware innovations in civil infrastructure such as robotic structure inspection, city wide sensor networks, and other smart city technologies. Aspiration to one day transition into an administrative position in the tech industry but currently enjoying the engineering aspect of the field. Interested in entrepreneurship or startup opportunities.

Professional Areas of Interest

• Smart city technologies
• A.I. created music
• A.I. Rationale Generation
• Robotics and human robot interaction (HRI)
• Internet of things optimization

Photography

I am a amateur photographer and my favorite types of composition are cityscape, landscape, and street photography. Here are some examples along with a link to my stock image profile.

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Lyrics Anotation

A hobby of mine is transcribing and annotating song lyrics by giving the lyrics context based on what the artist has said about the song. I do this on Genius.com and annotating lyrics is where I first experienced markup, which eventually led to me exploring web design, then computer science.

Genius Profile