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Austin, Texas, US

Shipped a generative AI photoshop plugin supporting 100+ users. Grew a small discord community of users supporting their issues.

Mountain View, California, US

• Designed, architected a SOA CLI (Command Line Interface) framework, and generated internal tooling for day to day task with a 100% team adoption rate across 2 teams totaling 30+ people.
• Debugged Cloud/On Prem systems by doing data analysis with Python/Pandas
• Monitored systems using ELK (ElasticSearch, Kibana), Grafana, and Airflow DAGs.
• Implement chat bots integrating them with multiple systems such as Active Directory, Teams, Slack, ServiceNow, Jira, Cherwell, Confluence, RightAnswers, and more.
• Internal Stack Overflow Moderator winning internal competitions for Most Answers and Most questions in specific categories
• Mentored other engineers on Git, Python, software development, pain point analysis, and internal processes. This has included documenting novel errors, many showcase videos, and text documentation in general.

Montreal, Quebec, CA

• Mentored developers on how to use GIT and perform code reviews.
• Developed custom branching strategies to fit in a Wagile process.
• Optimized SQL queries ranging from 15-10 minutes in execution time down to 40 seconds.
• Designed and developed logical queues at a macro scale in.Net and SQL Server.
• Added new functionality in legacy Winforms applications.
• Performed code reviews and refactored/optimized code.

Stamford, Connecticut, US

• Migrated Mulesoft APIs to Python micro-services using Flask-RESTplus.
• Communicated with stakeholders to gather requirements to update the newly migrated APIs.
• Identified a bottleneck in the way a RESTful endpoint was being used. Created a solution that reduced 3-minute HTTP responses down to 11 seconds.
• Performed code reviews and refactored/optimized code. Helped the team with problem-solving and created more readable and faster solutions.
• Utilized JIRA and Rally for Project Management, Chalk, and Confluence for documentation, Jenkins for CI/CD, and Git for version control.

San Marcos, TX, US

Curated object detection datasets and created pipelines for experimentation. Created deep learning models that produced up to 85% accuracy on maritime vehicles with less than 200 samples. Optimized hyper-parameters via genetic algorithms. Organized information structure of remote servers. Edited the Detectron software suite for custom usage by the M12 lab..

Santa Barbara, California, US

Authored the CVJSON python library. During the development of CVJSON unit testing was completed with python’s “unittest” library. Augmented dataset for computer vision and used the Detectron software suite released by Facebook, pytorch implementation, to create maritime vehicle object detectors.

San Marcos, TX, US

Created and managed a team of 5 student Developers for the Virtual Reality Technology Lab. Managed projects in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality designed for research. Using Unity3D, C#, and VRTK API developed an exposure therapy treatment for PTSD symptoms in veterans. Followed agile methodologies with Agile Boards, Tasks, Sprints, and etc.

Washington, DC, US

The primary function of personnel holding this designation is to install, operate, and maintain wire/cable networks to link key outposts, control points, and headquarters with reliable paths for the transmission of telephone, facsimile, and data services. Additional responsibilities include installing and performing organizational maintenance on the.