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• Refactored API-Gateway code to use updated dependencies, fixed existing tests and added new tests.• Led the implementation of upgrading internal tooling that uses a more secure API to download, sign, and publish latest Java releases from Azul Zulu with around a 7x performance improvement compared to the previous implementation.• Led the migration of microservices to use OkHttp3 instead of Apache HTTP because it is more secure and didn’t involve breaking changes to code.• Led the… Show more • Refactored API-Gateway code to use updated dependencies, fixed existing tests and added new tests.• Led the implementation of upgrading internal tooling that uses a more secure API to download, sign, and publish latest Java releases from Azul Zulu with around a 7x performance improvement compared to the previous implementation.• Led the migration of microservices to use OkHttp3 instead of Apache HTTP because it is more secure and didn’t involve breaking changes to code.• Led the development of microservices templates using GCP pub-sub instead of Kafka and increased the codecoverage. Also refactored code to improve readability and developer efficiency by around 33%.• Helped achieve annual savings of around $200-400k by re-architecturing a microservice with Spring Boot in Java so it could utilize Google Cloud Platform (GCP) instead of Kafka and on-premises data-centers.• Supported decoupling of customer-facing event sources from the monolith and maintained 100% of user visibility during the migration with around 2% less API calling to the monolith by re-architecturing a microservice.• Unblocked multiple teams and resolved alerts indicating potential issues affecting customers and business during on-call shifts by modifying memory and capacity of pods of microservices. Show less

United States

• Worked as Algorithm Development Engineer contractor from 12/17 to 3/20 for Clearpath Workforce Management with Advantest as the client. Then worked as Sr. R&D Engineer for Advantest from 4/20 to 10/21.• Architected, proposed, and led the creation of an image processing solution that replaced previous implementation. It computed image focus quality scores for around 8x more images and with around 50% better accuracy than the previous implementation. Product is used by the enterprise… Show more • Worked as Algorithm Development Engineer contractor from 12/17 to 3/20 for Clearpath Workforce Management with Advantest as the client. Then worked as Sr. R&D Engineer for Advantest from 4/20 to 10/21.• Architected, proposed, and led the creation of an image processing solution that replaced previous implementation. It computed image focus quality scores for around 8x more images and with around 50% better accuracy than the previous implementation. Product is used by the enterprise customer base.• Created a shared image processing solution that measured the edges and blur in images. It could process sets of thousands of images in parallel. It is used by colleagues for engineering purposes.• Led the internal research into using a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to generate realistic images of integrated circuits.• Led the effort to research and train Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to perform semantic segmentation and contour extraction on noisy images. Responsible for data augmentation, hyperparameter tuning, and training the models.• Presented projects and demonstrated results to colleagues and wider organization, including leadership, at internal conferences. Show less

San Jose, Ca

Huntington Beach, Ca

• Provided data science and machine learning consulting services for various projects, using Python to parse text documents to identify candidate signifier phrases and store their scores from various Natural Language Processing (NLP) packages

Austin, Tx

• Added parallel processing to a computational physics program that led to its runtime improving by roughly 400%

Responsible for teaching physics lab courses to undergraduate students by giving lectures, grading assignments, managing students, and assigning homework and exams

Master'S Degree, Physics

Relevant Courses: Computational Physics, Bayesian Statistical Methods, and Numerical Linear Algebra

B.S., Physics, Applied Mathematics

Completed coursework in physics, numerical methods, probability and statistics, mathematical modeling, fourier analysis, and partial.