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- Integrated BouncyCastle AES-GCM encryption into the public REST API, securing traffic with mobile devices.- Designed and implemented workflows for message relay over satellite protocols and for device status management.- Led three cloud deployments with load balancing, database clustering, and messaging queues, including a successful Blue/Green migration from on-prem to AWS.- Developed customer-facing React applications integrated with FastAPI, Keycloak, deployed behind an Nginx reverse proxy.

Arlington, Va, Us

- Extended Spring backend and RabbitMQ event-driven pipeline architecture with comprehensive unit and integration tests.- Designed and deployed a message queuing system with network path switching, deduplication, delivery confirmation, and debouncing for distributed environments.- Developed a multi-zone Kubernetes cluster on AWS with RBAC for managing authorization policies, containerized legacy applications writing custom Dockerfiles, and managed private ECR repositories.- Implemented a bit-level encoding protocol in Java to optimize data transfer over satellite communication and defined mappings to and from Protocol Buffers for handling and storage.

- Developed full stack applications using Spring, React, and both NoSQL and SQL databases.- Explored AI fundamentals in Natural Language Processing with DL4J and TensorFlow 2.- Contributed the Node backend for a regional first-place hackathon project with the National Institute of Science and Technology, handling cryptographic EXIF data removal and reattachment.- Designed and built a web crawler and archiver using Python, Java, Spring, and MongoDB.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

- Led a team of 20 across three departments for one of the company's largest East Coast commercial hubs, managing a $9.8 million P&L budget.- Promoted twice while achieving double-digit profit growth year-over-year.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

- Led infantry fire team and squad in the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, deployed to OIF.- Selected at Special Forces Assessment and Selection and attended the Special Forces Qualification Course.- Studied Mandarin at the Defense Language Institute.

Software Engineering

Master’S Degree, War Studies

Bachelor’S Degree, History