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Seattle, Washington, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

• Performed end-to-end integration of next gen infrastructure during early stages of development, catching several bugs and design issues before they became entrenched.• Re-architected hardware communication layer, increasing encapsulation, performance, and maintainability, while reducing the amount of code.• Created a simulator for the GeneXpert hardware, allowing automated testing, and making development and debugging significantly quicker and easier.• Implemented several features of Cepheid Link, a middleware solution written in Spring framework. • Patched an infrastructure component to support multiple threads, which required learning C# and the component’s architecture in one week.• Designed a messaging system that supports both hosted and embedded configurations, avoiding the need to write and maintain two different applications for customers with differing network topologies.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

• Developed the core feature of a module which dynamically generates PDF reports for oncology test results. The reports include dynamic charts, and allow users to apply custom branding and markup.• Implemented JUnit tests which detected a bug caused by usage of deprecated back-end APIs.• Wrote a script to generate unique mocks of user data, enabling early-stage scalability testing.• Reduced the launch time of Cepheid’s main consumer-facing software from 21 sec to 8 sec, while also improving thread safety.

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Designed and implemented plug-ins for Eclipse and Android Studio which integrate Intel tools with the ADT, allowing developers to easily analyze and enhance their apps with just a few clicks.• Developed modular Java classes for the plug-ins, allowing ~25% of the Eclipse plug-in code to be reused in the Android Studio plugin with no added development overhead.• Wrote Android test apps using Junit, allowing developers to execute quick regression tests.• Created an automated end-to-end regression test of Intel’s Android SDK, removing the need for weekly manual tests.The test was written in Java and Python, with portability in mind. It supports Windows, OS X, and Linux environments, using either Ant or Eclipse for builds.• Collaborated with test engineers to configure the team's QuickBuild continuous integration system.• Fixed a memory leak which had been causing unexplained crashes in a critical C++ app for two weeks.• Found 3 bugs (including one show-stopper) during final validation phase of the initial release of INDE Foundation, resulting in a significantly higher quality initial release.• Improved maintainability of existing plug-ins by deleting dead code, refactoring to apply object-oriented design principles, and writing Javadoc.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Designed test suites to measure performance and scalability of enterprise web services under various load scenarios.• Accurately simulated user behavior by scripting over 70 API calls into 12 different customer workflows.• Improved robustness of the testing process by writing scripts to discover and remove database artifacts. The script deleted 95% of junk entries in 5 minutes, while preserving all valid data.• Maximized test flexibility by writing scripts in both LoadRunner and JMeter, allowing the tests to reach areas of the internal infrastructure that would have otherwise been inaccessible.

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

High School