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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Falls Church, Va, Us

Arlington, Virginia, Us

* Integrated computer vision capabilities onto Puma sUAS and SwitchBlade loitering munition system, enabling person & vehicle object detection, as part of a $26.1 million contract with the US Special Operations Command. Software is deployed on 700 units sent to aid Ukraine as part of President Biden’s $800M security package.* Application Software Engineer in Aerovironment's Learning and Active Perception (LEAP) team where I work on object detection (person, car, ship, pose estimation) at the Edge with a NVIDIA Jetson.* Maintain internal libraries that handle streams of video encoding and decoding, and tracking metadata.

Poway, Ca, Us

* Led development of mission-critical module on MQ-1C Unmanned Aerial System; written in C++. Wrote 80% of the code and reviewed the other 20%. Demonstration to DoD customer secured a $25 million contract.* Identified unavailability of embedded hardware as an operational problem, and got management buy-in to pursue architecture compatible with testing \& development on Linux developer environment during COVID-19 lockdown. Pioneered department-wide initiative of 20+ engineers to adopt test driven development.* Led a team of 7 developers to adopt CppUTest unit testing framework on flight critical software. Expanded code coverage to 55%. Increase in maintainability reduced software development time \& budget by 75\% by detecting memory leaks, preventing regressions, and describing specification \& behavior via tests.* Modernized and decomposed monolithic legacy C89 embedded flight critical software into 62,000 lines (1/3rd of code base) of modern C++14. Implemented risk mitigation strategy that achieved successful first flight.

Poway, Ca, Us

* Primary developer (wrote 100% of code) of ethernet functionality on avionics bare metal system by using LwIP TCP/IP library in C. Moving away from RS-232 serial increased scalability by enabling transfer speeds of 100 Mbps versus 230,400 baud (over 400x increase), leading to 10x increase in internal messaging.*Established Jenkins continuous integration server, populated with 25+ build jobs that verifies builds nightly and after every commit. This enabled continuous delivery of demonstrable features for stakeholders.* Determined requirements and implemented engine code in C to increase reliability by handling faults.* Observed difficulty of searching internal data. Designed and implemented a discussion forum for the secure network using Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, Python 3.9, and Django. Forum services 60 engineers.

Pomona, Ca, Us

• Managed 113 Lab Computers and Cal Poly servers with Information Technology Consultant.• Assist Professors in teaching Computer Science courses, CS 140: Intro to Prog, Problem-Solving and CS 130: Discrete Structures, and CS 599: Machine Learning.

Pomona, Ca, Us

• Visualized University data for Office of Student Success. Utilizing R and exploratory statistical analysis techniques to determine what qualities of students influence the 4 year graduation rate.• Provided support for 20 Computer Science, 8 Math, 3 Physics, and 1 Engineering course(s).• ”Orientation Leader” - Represented the CS department in assisting the transition of new and transfer students to CPP.

• Taught a week-long introductory course on Android App development to Middle and High Schoolers.• Created a text messaging app with the use of Firebase and SQL.• Organized a team of 7 mentors to teach 34 students.

• Assisted Lawyers by providing Litigants self-help in Unlawful Detainer and Divorce cases.• Used Excel to keep track of walk-ins and used basic statistics to discover what days more volunteers are needed.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science; Minor In Mathematics