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Carmel, Indiana, United States

- Engineered a full-stack site crawler using Laravel and Blade to automate site testing, reducing manual validation time from 5-6 hours to 10-15 minutes. Checks web accessibility, sitemaps, SEO best practices, security vulnerabilities, and contact forms, displaying key findings in an actionable dashboard.- Enhanced and scaled previous machine learning-based image classification app, transitioning it to Laravel and Blade, and optimized it to caption images 3x faster and search libraries of 20K+ images. Implemented pHash differential hashing to detect duplicate images despite differing resolution or minor variations.

Carmel, Indiana, United States

Led 140-member team as robot’s driver during competitions, responsible for controlling all aspects of robot in real-time 3v3 matches and making split-second strategic decisions that directly impacted match outcomes.

Carmel, Indiana, United States

- Developed and implemented advanced controls such as PID and state-space control, motion profiling, holonomic movement, path-planning, and localization using fiducial markers to optimize robot performance.- Designed a computer vision pipeline using OpenCV to enable autonomous pickup of game pieces on field.- Created and taught curricula to 50-member division to train effective wiring, programming, and advanced robotics concepts.

Carmel, Indiana, United States

Carmel, Indiana, United States

Carmel, Indiana, United States

Carmel, Indiana, United States

- Led organization to first-ever CyberPatriot National Finals appearances in 2023 and 2024, winning the Boeing Cyber-Physical Systems Challenge both years.- Coordinated team of 5 to secure 7 Windows Server, Ubuntu, and Fedora virtual machines while defending against an active red team of industry professionals. Simultaneously tackled real-time injects, including provisioning firewalls, deploying new services, and responding to breaches.- Created a suite of programs for rapid system reconnaissance, automated vulnerability remediation based on system state, and configuration of mail, web, directory, remote access, and file transfer services.

Carmel, Indiana, United States

Carmel, Indiana, United States

- Built an automated security auditing platform using Ansible and Python, continuously monitoring and eliminating 200+ vulnerabilities per server across 50+ AWS EC2 instances, based on CIS Benchmarks and DoD STIGs.- Developed a machine learning image classification application using PyTorch, React, and Express, generating captioning for alt text and filenames dynamically, and integrated Google Vision API to generate tags.

Carmel, Indiana, United States

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Lunabotics, Blue Team @ PurdueGPA: 4.00/4.00

Core 40 With Academic Honors

Activities and Societies: TechHOUNDS, CyberPatriot, Computer Science Honor SocietyGPA: 4.60/4.00