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Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

• Implemented hardware discovery, management, and configuration services for high-speed data movers
• Published open-source Container Storage Interface (CSI) for Lustre filesystem
• Enabled Infiniband high-speed network support for Talos Linux in product prototype
• Researched airgapped system infrastructure requirements for new storage product
• Helped with internal releases for supporting and automating Kubernetes-managed Talos cluster deployments

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

• Pallickara Distributed Systems and Big Data Lab
• Automated cluster management with two Kubernetes clusters, Docker containerization, andBash/Python scripts
• Developed distributed model validation / training service with Apache Spark, Tensorflow, PyTorch, and Scikit-Learn over sharded MongoDB datasets
• Advocated for solid software engineering practices like test-driven development, clean code, andwell-defined version control processes
• Participated in weekly research meetings, presenting literature reviews and personal research
• Helped write/publish paper to BDCAT 2021 as second author and another to IEEE Big Data 2022 as first author

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

• Taught recitations for over 70 students, publishing help videos and documentation
• Designed containerization-focused term project for the class with Kubernetes and Docker

Longmont, Colorado, United States

• Automated Jenkins builds, Go unit testing, and Slack notifications for team’s repositories
• Overhauled Go gRPC communication strategy between data path microservices
• Created filesystem controller to create and manage Lustre/ZFS filesystems on host node
• Added resource persistence via both filesystem and Kubernetes’ etcd keystore
• Updated drive management controller to provide NVMe and SCSI drive discovery
• Practiced Agile workflow process with Atlassian suite, daily Scrum, and 2-week Sprints

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

• Pallickara Big Data Lab
• Helped develop LSTM recurrent neural networks for point-cloud datasets generated fromagricultural LIDAR equipment.

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

• Intro to Software Engineering
• Practiced Agile and Scrum master role, assisting teams with Sprint planning
• Provided reference React/JSX web applet with RESTful API for students to test against
• Assisted with code integration, black/white box unit testing, Jest client and API testing
• Taught correct version control etiquette and clean code practices
• Created Python and Bash scripts to automate grading and DevOps tasks

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

• Data Structures and Algorithms in Java
• Prepared and taught recitation sections of 25 students, helping them learn how to debug codeeffectively in the Eclipse IDE
• Listened to different perspectives of a problems and approached solutions from multiple anglesto facilitate learning
• Effectively communicated concepts such as inheritance, polymorphism, data structures, object -oriented design, recursion, and various algorithm implementations

Longmont, Colorado, United States

• Improved maintainability by refactoring production code for Verizon
• Created a way to track and persist all API requests for administration
• Implemented features requested by Jira tickets, along with thorough documentation
• Significantly reduced end-to-end testing time from over 20 minutes to 6 minutes
• Added fail-fast functionality to the existing testing framework, reducing wait times
• Streamlined and optimized Role-Based Access Control API request filters

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, 4.0

Worked under Dr. Shrideep Pallickara and Dr. Sangmi Pallickara in the Distributed Systems and Big Data lab as a Graduate Research Assistant.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science, 3.98

Mathematics Minor