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• Organized NC State's largest in-person hackathon of 2023, with 60+ participants and 14 project submissions.
• Led and managed team of 15+ members and oversaw all aspects of the hackathon planning, including:Sponsorships, Logistics, Finance, Software, Design and Advertising.
• Performed outreach and delivered pitches to gain company sponsorships and raised over $7,000 in funding.
• Created objectives and milestones for the team to give a clear vision of all things required to… Show more
• Created objectives and milestones for the team to give a clear vision of all things required to deliver a successful event.
• Broke down large milestones into smaller tasks to delegate among the team.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Used Ansible to implement an automated process to create backups of lab and production AWX instances. AWX instances drive critical automation scripts and backups allow quick recovery of them if the instances go down.
• Automated backup process saves 20 developer hours weekly.
• Improved resiliency and recovery capabilities of server infrastructure and critical internal processes.
• Drafted system design documents of AWX backup process and led design/code review sessions to convey my… Show more
• Drafted system design documents of AWX backup process and led design/code review sessions to convey my ideas, demo the backup process, and receive constructive from teammates.
• Gained basic knowledge about internal DNS services, server virtualization, NetApp storage, IDM (ActiveDirectory), and overall data center configuration and management. Show less

• Co-founded website that helps NCSU students reduce course search time from 5+ hours to 10 minutes or less.
• Maintaining and iterating on software application with 10,000+ pageviews and 300+ authenticated users.
• Designing and implementing web application frontend using React and CSS.
• Using Adobe XD to create mobile app wireframes and UI mockups.
• Currently developing an intuitive and aesthetically pleasing mobile application using React Native.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Cloud Native Engineering - SDaaS
• Upgraded Linux base image and deployed server farms used by 5000+ employees globally. Wrote documentation to help my team streamline future upgrades and easily troubleshoot common deployment issues.
• Re-evaluated the number of concurrent GitLab/Jenkins builds able to run on development server farms.
• Performed investigation into reliability and performance of internal GitLab instance. Identified and presented unusual metrics trends to the team and… Show more
• Performed investigation into reliability and performance of internal GitLab instance. Identified and presented unusual metrics trends to the team and led a technical discussion on improving alerting and dashboard.
• Implemented URL encoding and wrote corresponding unit tests in Python for an internal workflow orchestration service, thus decreasing the failure rate of API calls made by the service. Show less

Remote

• Independent online seller of used/aftermarket electronics on Amazon.
• Total net profits of approximately $1800 from start to present.
• Assisted customers in purchasing products and answered inquiries about product compatibility.
• Maintained an orderly inventory to streamline product shipment and maximize storage area for stocked products.
• Conducted market research to determine competitive and profitable prices while being fair to customers.
• Performed pre-shipment… Show more

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Currently learning how to use Convolutional Neural Networks, Tensorflow, Keras, and Python to perform object detection.
• Designing and implementing software to detect underwater targets which will guide a submersible robot and help it complete various tasks.
• Collected and labeled 1000+ data samples to use as verification data for a future model.
• Used OpenCV to perform Canny Edge Detection to detect targets in sample data.

B.S. Computer Science, Computer Science, 3.8

Activities and Societies: Hack_NCState Planning Board Leader (formerly PackHacks), Underwater Robotics Club, Society of Asian Scientists.

4.45

Activities and Societies: International Baccalaureate, Science Olympiad