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San Francisco, California, US

Menlo Park, CA, US

Product engineer working primarily on video calling features for the Messenger Desktop app. Responsibilities include developing software, collecting requirements, collaborating with cross-functional teams, triaging and fixing bugs, rolling out features, and writing automated tests. Technologies used most extensively include React Native, Typescript, and C++.

I assisted company leadership with a variety of software development contracts, often contributing to multiple projects at once. I played a significant role in designing and building inventory management web applications for several manufacturing companies. I created an algorithm to manage the geolocation of sensors for an agricultural research contract.

I was the development manager (DM) for a Jeffrey S. Raikes School Design Studio senior capstone project. Our team was contracted with construction management software company Buildertrend to assist with the migration of their flagship application from legacy systems to React and Typescript. As the DM, I was responsible for the code production and quality.

• Redesigned several features of Facebook’s Crisis Response tool to work on older phones without JavaScript support, connecting roughly 1.5 million additional users per month to helpful information during widespread.
• Designed and launched a new product to help people in developing areas of the world have easier access to Facebook’s services.
• Worked extensively with global, legal, and policy partners to approve my product’s launch and established a monitoring plan to assess its effect on company goals.

I worked primarily on overhauling and redesigning a client's React Native mobile application, bringing their vision of the product to life through animation, new features, and better user experience. I focused on building adaptable React Native components so the company could reuse them in future projects.

I did contract software development work for Microsoft Fargo as part of the Jeffrey S. Raikes School's Design Studio capstone project. Our team presented our project to Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft. Specific contributions that I made to the project included designing and building an ASP.NET MVC web application in C#, developing a responsive user.

I instructed teams of fourth- and fifth-grade students on robotics, programming, and engineering concepts. I guided each team as they researched and built a humanitarian project, encouraging them to explore solutions on their own.

Redmond, Washington, US

I was on Microsoft's Web Platform Data & Intelligence team. My summer project was to develop an extension for Microsoft Edge that fixes web pages with incorrect character encodings, meaning that text in other languages would not appear properly. I worked with a team of two other interns to implement this extension, and it now has the potential to help.

Omaha, NE, US

At Mutual, I was the primary developer on multiple RESTful web microservices that were part of the company's authentication service. I used Java, Gradle, and the Spring Framework suite (Cloud, Boot, MVC, Data, and HATEOAS), and wrote extensive unit and integration tests with JUnit and Mockito. I reduced tech debt on legacy applications and devised a system.

I was part of a group of college students that founded Pupcycle, a company dedicated to reducing textile waste by recycling it into dog toys. I handled many of the company's operations, including coordinating selling channels with local vendors, establishing a process to ship our products, and developing a server-side application to make our bookkeeping.

I used computational text analysis models to classify writing patterns in large archives of famous historical documents with machine learning using R. Contributed to a published academic research paper.

I assisted K-5 students inside and outside of the classroom with various educational and developmental tasks.

Sandy Springs, Georgia, US

Omaha, Nebraska, US

I developed a mobile game with the Unity game engine and C# (having no prior experience with either) to promote the university's computer science department. I focused on mobile control and playability, using feedback from playtesters and individual research. I attended client meetings, met deliverable deadlines, and gave an extensive formal presentation.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Liberal Arts Distinguished Diploma, Specialty Commended: Instrument Performance Diploma