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Urbana, IL, US

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Developed VerdictDB, an interactive analytics library utilized by Walmart and Locally that reducesquery processing costs of large scale data by up to 99% using Rust and Python
• Used Presto--an open source SQL query engine--to collect and analyze runtimes and processing costs ofcompeting tools such as WanderJoin and ProgressiveDB

• Leveraged Ruby on Rails and AWS to create user account functionality for NextUp Jobs, an onlineworkforce development application which aids in matching 4 million job-seekers and employers annually
• Implemented Trigram search to provide autocomplete predictions and to speed up search time by 200%

Urbana-Champaign Area

• Created an educational virtual reality game using Unreal Engine and Rokoko motion capture technologyto improve student engagement in Professor Toenjes’ future dance curriculum
• Interviewed 10+ dance experts and university students to assess usability and educational impact

• Used C to build the mechanism of IPC to reduce frame output time by 5% for Fovea Stream, a videostreaming platform that uses machine learning to upscale low resolution video streams
• Collaborated in a 5 person team to design the content encryption technology for Fovea Stream usingOpen DRM, an open source digital rights management implementation

Statistics And Computer Science, Computer Science, 2020-2023

Activities and Societies: National Center For Supercomputing Applications, Association For Computing Machinery

High School Diploma

Advanced two-year secondary school program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI); specialized coursework in algorithms, data.