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• Developed backend features for customer-facing credit card application (Python Flask, REST API)
• Implemented and presented a proof-of-concept for handling credit card payment processing in an event-driven manner (Python, AWS SNS, SQS, and Lambda)
• Improved local development experience by automating the process of populating a local database with production-like data (SQL, Postgres, Python)
• Created testing and rollout plans for all payments-related functionality in preparation for the release of a new product

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Via acquisition of Uber ATG (Uber's self-driving vehicle division) January 2021.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Led fullstack development of map visualizations for a web application used by all of Uber’s self-driving division for analyzing both live and logged vehicle data (C++, JavaScript, React, RxJS)
• Reduced application bandwidth usage by 40% to improve overall performance and user experience
• Achieved 90%+ unit test code coverage of backend code to improve maintainability
• Collaborated with internal customers to develop useful map visualization and inspection tools
• Managed and mentored a summer intern by planning and scoping a project, leading code reviews, and removing blockers to enable the intern to successfully complete the project

New York, New York, United States

• Developed performant features for a backend Java application serving millions of user requests per day
• Improved maintainability of backend code by employing OOP and implementing unit tests
• Refactored frontend codebase (TypeScript), contributing to a 50%+ file size reduction of browser extensions distributed by the company leading to increased user install rate and revenue
• Documented step-by-step test plans for QA engineers to execute

Greater Boston Area

• Developed a MATLAB script to automate the creation of monthly employee work allocation Excel reports, increasing the productivity of several engineering managers

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Built an Android mobile application in Java that allows wireless communication (via Bluetooth) with and remote control of a Pepsi Spire machine, a digital fountain drink dispenser
• Brainstormed, refined, and presented project ideas for new equipment innovations in PepsiCo’s vending, cooling, and fountain drink dispensing platforms

New York, New York, United States

• Programmed new templates for the company’s web content management system using HTML::Mason (a Perl web application framework) and XML

• Collaborated with third party vendors to create a mechanical drawing template for use in the design of future blister packages
• Created Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to input and organize data for over a hundred blister package mechanical drawings

• Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent Application on 08/14/2013 for “Arthritis Multi-Tool” (Application #61865825)
• Designed and modeled an ergonomic multi-tool for arthritis patients using AutoCAD and SolidWorks
• Prototyped multiple 3-D printed and laser-cut iterations of the multi-tool

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

GPA: 3.9 / 4.0

Bachelor’S Degree, Summa Cum Laude, Mechanical Engineering

GPA: 3.9 / 4.0 Full Tuition Merit Scholarship (all semesters) William C. and Esther Hoffman Beller Prize for Merit in Engineering Studies.

High School