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New York, New York , Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Led or contributed to various efforts on the Identity Decisioning team including:* Improved and maintained Affirm's existing US identity decisioning codebase, added new capabilities, fixed bugs, met compliance regulations, and decreased latency. * Built a generalized identity decisioning framework to scale Affirm's reach to an international level. Aided in inaugural usage of this framework in Australia.* Migrated existing Canada code to this international framework for code, complexity, and cost savings and to validate the international framework capabilities.* Designed and built changes necessary for enabling identity decisioning capabilities in the UK.* Implemented integrations with new third party vendors and migrated existing integrations to new vendors for increased capabilities, meeting compliance goals, improved latency, and decreased cost. * Served in an oncall rotation for the entire Trust & Safety organization at Affirm, including various additional efforts such as leading a T&S latency reduction initiative for meeting SLAs for a critical partner and creating best practices for k8s.* Onboarded two new engineers to the team, and provided mentorship to them and other engineers on my team.* Performed hiring interviews and was selected as one of Affirm's "high-signal" interviewers for a critical hiring effort across the company.

Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Us

Served as architect for numerous projects including a TCP-multicast traffic-shaping proxy, a situational awareness dashboard and the data ingest pipeline to populate it, and a project for rewriting the messaging component of TAK server to be more scalable and reliable.Built and set up situational awareness dashboard using InfluxDB, Grafana, and PostgreSQL. Created data ingestion pipeline to populate this dashboard using Telegraf and Python.Conducted over two dozen engineering interviews ranging in experience level from associate to principal.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

Improved Pinnacle 21's primary product by adding new features, fixing bugs, and improving performance of critical pages.Served as lead developer on our product’s latest patch release.Remediated vulnerabilities in our primary product in response to a customer’s penetration test, and fixed several extra vulnerabilities that I discovered during my own penetration testing.Identified and resolved severe issue affecting the accuracy of all of our customers’ audit logs without losing any audit data and served as primary contact for customers during the time between discovery of the issue and resolution.

Mclean, Va, Us

Built backend scheduling system using Spring Boot on AWS for recurring transfers to replace slow, expensive, legacy vendor software.Built data processing system with Python for migrating customers from legacy banking systems to our modern, central system to reduce the ongoing administrative burden of Capital One supporting multiple redundant systemsTaught classes on application security and secure coding to developers.Mentored two junior developers on my team.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Forward Deployed Engineer supporting, enhancing, automating, and expanding various Palantir deployments. Primarily working in the law enforcement and military space. Key accomplishments include:* Designed and deployed load balancing system for Homeland Security Investigation's case management system, which allowed our team to do the first rolling restart of a particular system at the company.* Built data integrations for the federated search system for the same case management system to allow investigations to be completed across a wide range of data sources while providing strong audit capabilities to ensure the system isn't abused.* Automated various data integration and system maintenance tasks to decrease the manual effort needed to support various customers and free up employees to focus on more impactful work.

Oversaw and directed all technical projects for the company, including maintaining website servers, developing new features, finding and contacting potential customers in an automated way, fixing bugs, brainstorming future technical work, and identifying potential technical road blocks for the company to be aware of.

Washington, Dc, Us

Computer scientist developing and supporting large-scale cryptology processes.

Baltimore, Md, Us

Completed M.S. of Computer Science. Master's research was focused on authorship attribution of malware based solely on the compiled binaries.

University Park, Pa, Us

Worked as a research assistant in the Statistics department under Dr. David Hunter building and optimizing epidemiology modeling programs.

University Park, Pa, Us

Worked as a research assistant in the Computer Science department, first under Associate Professor Sanjukta Bhowmick, and later under Professor Padma Raghavan. Research topics included using graph coloring algorithms to optimize sparse matrix factorization algorithms, and analysis of cache-level utilization optimization for distributed matrix factorization software suites.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science, Minor In Psychology