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Mountain View, CA, US

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Sunnyvale, California, United States

• Co-developed AI chatbot framework for answering internal technical questions and drafting release notes based on user documentation, Confluence articles, and other data sources
• Co-developed Slack bot integration and AWS service for interacting with the AI chatbots
• Refactored customer support case data collection and analysis process in order to learn from & predict support case trends
• Analyzed case root cause and trends, with an eye towards eliminating classes of "common support cases"
• Debugged and developed solutions for RTI customers in C/C++, Python, C#, Java, etc.
• Assisted in development of Connext Anywhere Getting Started Guide, and RTI's public Knowledge Base technical documentation

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Sunnyvale, CA

• In October 2020, I began serving as RTI's US Support Lead managing and training a small team of engineers to investigate and resolve software bugs and unintended behaviors
• Debugged multithreaded application and communication framework logic on a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, VxWorks, and QNX in C, C++, Java, and.NET
• Designed and developed automations using Python APIs for Google Sheets, Jira, and Salesforce
• Investigated and resolved high priority technical problems, including performance bottlenecks in customer distributed systems using Connext DDS QoS, OS kernel parameters, application code, etc.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Debugged Connext DDS bugs and behaviors using GDB, Eclipse, and Wireshark
• Wrote unit tests and bug fixes for Connext DDS in C and Java
• Served as Support Mentor for incoming research engineers
• Developed Python scripts, Jira & Bitbucket automation, and Chrome plugin to improve team efficiency
• Provided product guidance and deeply technical support to autonomous vehicle customers, both on-site and remotely
• Conducted performance testing and assisted in performance tuning for TCP- and UDP-based communications

Greater Philadelphia Area

Hampton, VA

• Wrote UDP client in C to provide real-time GPS data via MAVLink protocol to ground station software
• Designed and deployed a safety visualization system composed of a power regulation circuit, monitor, GPS, and compute platform in an electric vehicle
• Created front-end monitoring tool for terrestrial PNT (Locata) system status

Lexington, Massachusetts

• Programmed SPI driver for communication between 3-axis MEMS accelerometer, microSD card, and Silicon Labs microcontroller
• Developed SD card interface for Silicon Labs microcontroller, used for large data collections
• Implemented internal FLASH read/write interface and internal ADC for use with MEMS microphone
• Built and tested MEMS microphone amplification circuitry
• Participated in the first annual Intern Innovative Idea Challenge and ranked in the top seven ideas out of over 70 submissions
• Engaged with fellow interns and full-time employees in the Open and Embedded Reading Group, a paper review and discussion group open to all lab employees

Lexington, Massachusetts

• Designed low-power, persistent surveillance microsystem and power management system using COTS parts
• Created interactive power profile for microsystem’s various operational states
• Collected data with accelerometers, geophones, magnetometers, and microphones for proof of concept
• Programmed and measured power consumption of Silicon Labs microcontroller for proof of concept

Rochester, NY

• Programmed PIC microcontroller for use in supercapacitor-buffered solar energy harvester
• Interfaced PIC microcontrollers with EEPROM, light sensor and IR transceiver via I2C and UART
• Tested double-base number system (DBNS) compression algorithm in C
• Primary author on "Internet-of-Everything Oriented Implementation of Secure Digital Health (D-Health) Systems," in ISCC 2016
• Primary author on review of energy sources and energy buffering for cyber-physical systems (CPS) (CRC Press, 2015)
• Co-authored book chapter on supercapacitors as energy buffers (CRC Press, 2015)

Master Of Science In Engineering In Embedded Systems

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical And Computer Engineering, Cum Laude With High Distinction In Electrical And Computer Eng.

Activities and Societies: Riverview/Brooks Hall Council, Student's Association Communications Committee, Southside Hall Council.