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• Open-source RAG framework that streamlines deployment, testing, and iterating on RAG chatbots on your own infrastructure, lowering the barrier to entry for teams looking to query their own documents using AI
• Implemented configurable architecture for upstream chatbot components allowing multiple RAG pipelines to be served from a common API endpoint (Python, FastAPI, LlamaIndex, MongoDB)
• Designed an administrative dashboard UI allowing configuration, testing, and monitoring of user-facing chatbots (React-Typescript, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui)
• Utilized AWS infrastructure to host a SPA dashboard and RESTful API capable of supporting ~15k concurrent users (EC2, nginx, MongoDB, PostgreSQL)
• Automated infrastructure deployment using Amazon CDK, reducing provisioning steps from 50 to 5
• Identified blocking operations with virtual end-to-end load testing and implemented background processing to increase viable concurrent users by 1.8 times (Celery, Amazon SQS)

• Request Dump - Database-backed webhook collection and debugging tool (Node.js, Express, React, MongoDB, Digital Ocean)
• Video Poker Analyzer - Statistical tool to track player trends and forecast theoretical financial returns with variable betting tables (Sinatra, PostgreSQL, Heroku)
• Independently developed several other web applications to solidify foundational software engineering concepts, making use of technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, and HTML

• Improved students' test performance and comprehension in calculus, physics, statistics, and algebra
• Provided crisis-focused tutoring for academic emergencies such as failing grades and exam prep as well as long-term guidance supporting students throughout their high school careers

Upper Marlboro, Maryland, United States

• Drafted and released for production over 10,000 custom aluminum panels, working closely with in-house shop to assess build feasibility and address fabrication issues
• Coordinated with both general and sub contractors to determine project needs amidst varying field conditions
• Assisted with submittals, scheduling, and coordination of material fabrication and product delivery