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New York, United States

New York, United States

- Built and deployed a client-facing web application and a CMS app using React and SCSS, singlehandedly, for a high-end furniture and design company, to showcase their catalog of custom designs. Features include drag and drop, zooming capabilities, and subtle transition animations.- Built the backend for both the client-side and CMS app with a cloud-first approach, by using various AWS Web Services like Cognito, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and S3. These services and resources were managed and deployed quickly using the AWS CDK to generate CloudFormation Templates, and therefore following the Infrastructure as Code (IAS) model.- Built the CI/CD Pipeline using GitHub action workflows, therefore, allowing future engineers and maintainers of the app to easily contribute, modify or add features.

New York, New York, Us

- Designed, built and deployed a web application from scratch. This app is meant to document the Russia-Ukrainian War, so that future researchers may have a central location to collect verified and authentic news, sources, etc, to use for research. - Designed the frontend on Figma, while the backend was designed as a semi-monolithic service, due to speed and security of development being prioritized - Built the frontend using Typescript and React.js. The backend was built using MongoDB Realm (for increased data integrity and security) and a collection of AWS Services (for rate-limiting and throttling of public endpoints). Any private/hidden communication between AWS Services and MongoDB Realm was handled by using the MongoDB Realm Atlas API. - Deployed frontend as a client-side rendered app, to reduce costs (at the expense of lowering SEO). For AWS services, the backend was deployed using a CloudFormation Template. For MongoDB Realm, the backend was deployed using a custom CD/CI pipeline solution that was integrated directly into the private repository

New York, Ny, Us

- Taught 100 seventh graders Chemistry, and Web Development through a data-driven approach. - Continued to retain the same responsibilities as an Associate teacher

New York, Ny, Us

- Taught 90 fifth graders Earth Science, and Web Development through a data- driven approach. - Ensured that every student understood concepts by performing targeted teaching, grading assignments, creating custom lesson plans, and holding office hours. - Utilized various interactive teaching tools, like Desmos, PearDeck, Kami, Google Classroom, etc.- Advised and supported a unique group of 11 students, so they could achieve their personal and academic goals.- Consistently updated parents on their child's progress, on a bi-weekly basis.

New York, Ny, Us

- Provided live Spanish translation to patients or their guardians- Shadowed and learned from world-leading pediatric doctors as they interacted with patients- Provided support to patients before or while undergoing medical treatments- Brainstormed and created novel ways to organize/plan events for patients

Brooklyn, New York, Us

- Analyzed 100+ videos, and collected 10000+ data points, that were then used to modify protocols like the Morris Water Maze. This protocol allowed us to observe behavior from rats that had suffered a stroke or had undergone treatment- Handled and performed various experiments, testing a rat’s ability to perform high motor-control behaviors, like swimming, after they had suffered a stroke- Learned and optimized a protocol to stain microscope slides containing sectioned rat-brains.

New York, Ny, Us

-Created a Python script to process 380,000+ data points, generated from over 10,000+ Tiff images. The images were taken with a confocal microscope.- Analyzed and ran 200+ western blots that documented when fat cells interacted with macrophages. This was to determine the activation of various proteins in the MAPk and NF-kB signaling pathways, including AKT. - Performed 40+ experiments, with 96 conditions, to map out a signaling pathway of lysosome exocytosis. It was theorized that this mechanism, along with actin polymerization created "foam cells" which are "sticky" and adhere to each other, resulting in arterial plaque formation. This leads to atherosclerosis and heart disease - the leading cause of death in the US. - Authored and generated a schematic to conceptualize the resulting paper, called TLR4 (Toll-Like Receptor 4)-Dependent Signaling Drives Extracellular Catabolism of LDL (Low-Density Lipoprotein) Aggregates- Produced a 3-D segmentation image of a macrophage-adipocyte interaction to be viewed in Amira (3-D simulation software) (2014)

Ithaca, Ny, Us

- Maintained the lab through tasks such as autoclaving, organizing glassware, preparing sterile beaded tubes, and washing lab equipment- Processed leaf litter samples for DNA extraction - Performed nucleotide extractions via a robot

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology And Society; Minor In Psychology

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