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Seattle, Wa, Us

ACM - PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) Systems#AWSCryptography

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Designed and developed infrastructure tooling that scales and automates global-scale distributed systems for a suite of Microsoft Defender products underpinning multiple geographies.• Core contributor and maintainer to internal Infrastructure-as-Code SDKs used by all teams across the Microsoft Threat Protection organization that streamline the regional build-out and deployment processes, automate and optimize the management of one of the largest Kubernetes clusters within Microsoft and other cloud resources, delivering highly available, observable, and reliable cloud infrastructures that enable the aggressive scale-out of Microsoft Defender products.• Frontlined engineering efforts to harden platforms and products against cyberthreats, enabling customers with more secure defaults to ensure they have the best available protections that are active out-of-the-box.

Nashville, Tn, Us

• Developed features and services for an equity trading system providing comprehensive portfolio management functionality, including statistical tools to optimize holdings under a set of user-defined constraints, trade order generation and automation, and compliance and regulatory reports.• Owned solutions through all phases of the software development life cycle, including migrating and re-engineering a Java and C++ back-end code base to .NET 8 with a service oriented architecture, working with stakeholders to align requirements and constraints for new features, and providing support from testing to post-deployment.• Instrumented and optimized the performance of the system on the server side, including creating a distributed cache middleware with NCache for the .NET server, leading to a 40% decrease in the .NET server startup time when benchmarked against the legacy server, minimizing the potential downtime of a mission-critical system.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

• CS 2201 Program Design and Data Structures Spring 2019• CS 3251 Intermediate Software Design Spring 2020

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

• Investigated approaches to utilize OpenCV to extract and process pose data from CCTV camera video archives from the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit from Vanderbilt Hospital to develop and train a machine learning algorithm to detect the onset of an epilepsy episode.• Researched existing literature on pose recognition and techniques to enhance OpenCV detection accuracy on low-quality videos and presented findings during bi-weekly lab meetings.• Developed a prototype data pipeline in Python and designed a toolkit with D3.js to visualize the data points from OpenCV.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

• Led the development of the Augmented Reality Mirror, a scientific outreach project that incorporates AR technologies with medical anatomical models to achieve real-time body tracking in a game-like experience.• Collaborated with teachers to enrich Metro Nashville Public Schools' sports science curriculum to include the study of kinematics by utilizing the velocity-measuring and path-plotting functionality from the Augmented Reality Mirror.• Launched the Augmented Reality Mirror for an exhibition in partnership with the Nashville Adventure Science Center.