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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