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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Engineer Restful API for Django-REST/PostgreSQL app used by 52,000+ users, maintaining 70,000+ LOC codebase with agile development, 90%+ coverage unit testing, and ci/cd through git
• Developed FastAPI backend for new high performance scalable analytics data service, including Redis caching and JWT signing/verification to handle thousands of requests/minute from 6 products
• Developed Django backend for new subletting marketplace service, including multiple image file upload handling, DB models, and complex custom serializer logic to ensure data validation

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

TA for CIS 1210: Programming Languages and Techniques II, a 200-student course on data structures and algorithms, working with students through office hours, recitations, and grading

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Research and develop framework of applying LLMs and static/dynamic code analysis to software vulnerability detection
• Create working prototype that is capable of creating custom test cases (successfully catching critical vulnerabilities in major open source projects vertx and spring), with advanced prompting techniques and integration.
• Communicate closely with Professor Mayur Naik, Assistant Professor Saikat Dutta, PhD students, and other undergrads

Develop and maintain software to help golf courses manage operations and analyze data (subject to NDA)

San Francisco, California, United States

Developed highly efficient database syncing service, with graph-based table dependency algorithm, syncing production-size DBs too large to fit into memory while maintaining idempotency with GCP. Worked with google cloud deployment, managing secrets, function deployment, and wrote triggers/requests.

Columbia, Maryland, United States

Server at a hot pot restaurant. Managed responsibilities of preparing food, serving customers, and daily cleaning.

College Park, Maryland, United States

Android software engineer on research team funded by US Department of Energy and Maryland Department of Transportation to decrease vehicle emissions using new traffic analysis technology.

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Worked with professors to analyze existing research and data regarding long COVID-19 psychiatric/neurological effects and related neuroimaging.

Bachelor Of Science In Engineering - Bse, Computer And Information Sciences, General, 4.0

Activities and Societies: ~ Penn Labs Back End Engineer, KCECH Residential Assistant, CIS 1210 Teaching Assistant (Formerly CIS 3500).

High School Diploma, General Studies

Activities and Societies: ~ Pyoneers (Programming Club) President, It's Academic (Quizbowl) President, Science Olympiad Senior.