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Bridgewater, NJ, US

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

• Designed and engineered a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) AI application that can answer any query related to the quarterly SEC filings of Verisk and its three main competitors, providing insights into the.
• Researched the optimal pipeline for the RAG application including vector databases, embedding models, large language models, chunking methods, and other RAG best practices
• Developer on the GenAI scrum team, prioritizing collaboration and version control using Jira and Bitbucket
• Integrated a guardrail API to protect generative AI application from prompt injection and other attacks
• Implemented re-ranking and sentence window retrieval strategies to improve data retrieval in RAG pipeline
• Analyzed several rounds of output from the AI application to determine the most efficient and accurate design

College Park, Maryland, United States

• Organize a chapter of 100+ members with weekly meetings and activities
• Assist President and Treasurer in budget management ($130k per semester) and general decision making
• Lead an 8-man judicial board to ensure the values of the chapter are upheld

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

• Developed user-friendly front-end interfaces using Angular, Typescript, HTML, and CSS
• Collaborated within an Agile SCRUM team, utilizing Jira for efficient project management and seamless communication
• Managed version control and source code using Bitbucket, ensuring smooth collaboration and codebase maintenance

College Park, Maryland, United States

• Organized 50+ member organization with general content meetings, workshops, and special guest speaker events
• Awarded ”Best Networking Club” for connecting students with successful business leaders, such as co-founder of The Carlyle Group, David Rubenstein

• Cultivate and present weekly content for general board meetings
• Research different current events and topics in finance and economics

Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States

• Accommodated to the needs of customers to help meet the sales goals of the restaurant
• Enhanced the layout of the POS system to ensure servers could easily and accurately log transactions

Bedminster, New Jersey, United States

• Maintained diligent attention to detail when itemizing and totaling purchases
• Provided a positive customer experience with fair, friendly, and courteous services
• Contributed to daily team goals and remained flexible in my schedule to allow for last minute changes

Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States

• Designed and developed an iOS mobile application using Swift programming language on Apple's Xcode developer software
• Dynamic fitness application that tracks the user’s workouts to show progression and trends, visually and numerically
• Collaborated closely with other developers to troubleshoot applications, communicate ideas, and enhance/refine my overall programming knowledge

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science And Finance, Gpa: 3.990

Activities and Societies: - Content Lead for International Economics and Finance Society - President for International Economics and.

Gpa: 4.5

Activities and Societies: President of Stock Market Club, Vice President of Student Council, Bridgewater-Raritan High School Varsity.