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California, United States

Pleasanton, California, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

New York, New York, Us

• Constructed frontend through Svelte to eliminate the overhead of using a virtual DOM, promoting faster page rendering, and minimizing starter boilerplate.• Safeguarded against weakly-typed static errors by incorporating Typescript interfaces into the codebase which improved documentation, decreased extensive runtime testing errors, and enabled safer refactoring for future growth.• Built the application with Vite to enable rapid server startup, reduce latency, and permit hot module reloading to provide a more efficient production workflow.• Created and integrated a NoSQL database to store the user input data and allow for efficient horizontal data scaling for accommodating increased user growth.• Incorporated authentication and authorization measures with BCrypt hashing in the login to protect sensitive client data from being unsecured.• Tested with Vitest to ensure tests created by the app ran successfully against the Svelte frontend framework.• Hosted the application live through AWS, DynamoDB, and Github Actions to reduce costs while guaranteeing robust uptime availability. • Product developed under tech accelerator OS Labs (opensourcelabs.io)

Berlin, De

• Utilized React Router to enable for seamless user web page navigation and re-rendering with minimal network requests to the server, overall trading off increased upfront loading costs for reduced re-rendering latency.• Incorporated Redux Toolkit for more organized state management across multiple component redirects during the keyboard building process, improving production debugging and unit testing. • Designed and implemented a PostgreSQL database to store and query ACID-compliant keyboard build data tied to their login.

Berlin, De

• Fetched realtime EventBrite API data utilizing Axios to find the most popular events by location and user query i.e. sports, venue, artist.• Built in Google OAuth through Passport.js to enable streamlined authentication and stronger user security.• Hosted a server on Express for handling HTTP requests to multiple endpoints based on the middleware design pattern, promoting organized routing, readability, and maintenance.

Berlin, De

• Fetched data from the Jeopardy API with Axios to allow users to play any previously aired Jeopardy game from the show.• Developed a single-page application utilizing React and React Hooks that created a dynamically stateful board of unique question containers which promoted efficient component re-rendering.• Utilized HTML, CSS, and Material UI to design a simple, but responsive board display through maintainable and modular React components.

La Jolla, Ca, Us

• Used Java to automate Fluocell, an open-source imaging software for cancer cells, by adding in execution scripts to analyze large datasets of images in a single function thus reducing the required amount of user input, and improving execution speed of the software runtime by 35%.• Reconfigured cell tracking, border tracing, and gradient filtering formulas in MATLAB to improve accuracy by 26%.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Bioengineering: Bioinformatics

High School Diploma