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Teaching assistant for CMSC 216 - Computer Systems and CMSC 330 - Programming LanguagesTaught labs of 30-35 students weekly to engage in topics such as the interaction between programs and hardware (C), scripting (Ruby), and functional programming (OCaml)Introduced students to concepts including process control, memory management, command-line tools, regular expressions, scoping and binding of variables, higher-order programming, type polymorphism, finite automata, context-free grammars, parsing, lambda calculus, and cybersecurityHeld office hours, wrote and graded exams, projects, and quizzes, working with over 500 students

Utilized scrum and agile principles to develop and test a large-scale application to coordinate and plan satellite orbits, missions, tasks, and defense strategies (Java)Adhered to Open Mission Systems (OMS) architecture specifications to allow interoperability and reuse between weapon systems, services, and subsystems/payloads/sensorsDesigned flows to process security labeling and verify data was being sent to authorized systems

Collaborated with UI/UX team to develop dashboards to display data for company website (JavaScript)Cleaned data, performed exploratory data analysis and created dynamic, interactive visualizations (R)Researched, compared, and experimented with technologies for iOS development (React-Native, Swift)