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San Francisco, California, Us

Worked on the user data platform extending the existing user profile store with new data points by building on top of a large and mature ecosystem. Worked with many AWS technologies such as DMS, Glue, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, S3, and DynamoDB to build performant and scalable data solutions. Also interfaced with other teams and made changes to code bases for GraphQL, Go services/lambdas, and Terraform code. All this to serve the millions of users that use NerdWallet on a daily basis.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Worked with a small team to serve more than 145,000 students, faculty, and employees by maintaining Java (SpringBoot) applications, creating new Python based API's that talked to third party software (e.g., SailPoint IIQ), maintaining and resolving SQL/DB issues for Oracle and MySQL (Aurora) DBs, to just mention a few of the things we did. Worked with various AWS technologies (e.g., EC2, ECS, Lambda, CodePipeline, etc.), and was challenged daily to meet the shifting demands of our clients and stakeholders.

Arlington, Tx, Us

I researched several topics including how to convert factual statements to questions for the purpose of verifying them. I worked with databases, knowledge graphs, and used several API's to test and develop possible solutions. Some of the API's I worked with are the Wolfram Alpha, Spacy, and Alchemy API's. I also used Flask along with Heroku to deploy Flask app's that could be rendered on a webpage that incorporated the Bootstrap framework. More recently I have worked with asynchronous frameworks such as Sanic and also have migrated over to using a PostgreSQL DB. At the moment I am investigating bias in claim-spotting models and researching ways to mitigate or eliminate such bias.

Arlington, Tx, Us

Maintained and developed applications for the CSE department written in PHP and Python. Developed front-end interfaces for said applications using Bootstrap, Semantic UI, JavaScript, and custom HTML/CSS. Also, maintained, updated, and queried a MySQL database with over 5000 users to power the applications and store user data. Developed an internal API for the applications to call and get data from the DB easily (e.g., for search bars), and used external API's (e.g., Algolia Location API) to provide accurate information in the forms we created. Working with a small team we migrated over from the Cascade CMS platform and deployed our apps on an RHEL server for which I helped setup the Apache and other related configurations to get the applications to route to the appropriate locations.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Human Biology