• Planned and successfully executed an API rewrite from FastAPI to Django, co-leading a team of 5 developers throughout• Mentored incoming co-ops by providing one-on-one Q&A and debugging sessions, shortening onboarding time and blockers• Improved authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) by architecting new identity and access management (IAM) policies, (re)engineering access controls, and integrating Django Axes• Wrote extensive unit and integration tests using Pytest and conducted rigorous end-to-end testing with Insomnia to validate the correctness and security of the platform

• Discovered, documented, and remediated vulnerabilities in authentication, authorization, injection, and containers• Improved security and user experience by rebuilding existing authentication and user session systems, enabling blacklistable and refreshable JWTs using Python and Redis• Reduced storage used in data pipelines by 80% by refactoring runners to clean up duplicate and redundant intermediary data• Architected a novel system for interactive processing of medical images in data pipelines using the Docker SDK and RabbitMQ, and assisted research by creating a DICOM annotation app using HTML, SCSS, JavaScript, and Express

• Developed a new payment gateway management system using C# and ASP.NET• Increased user experience and accessibility by redesigning UI components to comply with WCAG using HTML, SCSS, and JavaScript