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Garner, North Carolina, United States

Implemented a no-cost VM solution for Nola AI's on-premise ML server:NOLA AI's on-premise server with 4 A100 GPUs was being directly accessed by users for ML training runsExplored VM solutions (VMWare, Proxmox, KVM/QEMU) and presented findings to the infrastructure teamImplemented KVM/QEMU and built VMs on the server - saving money via a free solution, and.

TMC provides centralized data services, technology, and infrastructure for progressive organizations. Migrating SQL queries from Redshift to BigQuery, ensuring each member org’s Periscope dashboards are returning relevant data for their analysis. This involves troubleshooting and updating SQL queries, functions, data types, and Python dashboard.

Building ETL Pipeline to extract data from Sendbird via API and deploying GCP Cloud Functions to ingest data into BigQuery using Fivetran connector

Data engineer for experienced startup that pulls various open government contracts to a centralized database/app, then recommends contracts to potential bidders.Made government contracts searchable by writing Python script that used a Hugging Face model to embed the document bodies, and then loaded resulting vectors into Qdrant vector database. Then.

Studied backend with Python, SQL and Flask, implementing design patterns like MVC, adapter pattern, and ORM. Dockerized API, and deployed to AWS. Then implemented various data pipelines using Python, Lambda functions, S3 (boto), Glue, Athena and Redshift. Further coerced data using ELT pattern involving Fivetran, Snowflake, and DBT.

Technical support engineer for social media analytics org that tracks mentions on a client-provided list of urls and social media handles (sources), and then provides dashboard analytics about mentions to end user companies.Worked with QA team to identify and replicate bugs in development, QA, and production stages. And worked with PMs to prioritize bugs.

Continued to provide primary technical support for Ipas after they transitioned into a CREO client

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

After successful completion of previous project with ettain Group, hired on full-time with IpasSaaS and general application software solutions problem-solver for global usersManaged and administered users and systems in O365, Azure, AD, ExchangeAssisted with projects for system implementation, upgrades, training, and documentation

United States

Supported Ipas clients after Workday rolloutAssisted with Workday how-to questions. login issues, documentation, ticket routing

Technical recruiting writer for software engineer outreachProgressed to leadership role, editing writers’ work and providing quality control

Part-time freelance web applications testerDiscovered valuable bugs while performing functional testing and test case execution for global customers

Education record

Completed courses on Boot.dev, a rigorous CS and backend engineering program. I've finished 10 courses so far, including courses on DSA.

Education record

Data Engineering Career Course

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English