Making financial advice more accessible by empowering FinFluencers to share their content, monetize on their tools, and foster relevant discussions. • Built and optimized the website using TypeScript, Zustand, and Next.js, delivering the project within a tight deadline.• Focused on user-centered design by conducting surveys and gathering feedback, translating insights into impactful product features.• Enhanced organic growth through the optimization of social media and SEO strategies.

Lecturer of 30 Finance and Information Science students in-person twice a week on Blockchain & Crypto fundamentals, and DeFI.• Spearheaded curriculum development, coordinating cross-functional guest speakers, and overseeing student-driven projects• Encouraging students to contribute to and maintain our open-source materials on GitHub (github.com/UIC-Blockchain-Crypto) and Blog (paragraph.xyz/@uic-blockchain-crypto), providing them with a platform to showcase their knowledge and connect with the industry.

• Bootstrapped a social payments app and marketplace for early (K-12) schools via our solution Bityagi. • Built partnerships with teachers, PTAs, and administrators to fine tune our product features and refine our sales strategy.• Managed cross functional contractors (DevOps, UI/UX Designer, Graphic Designer, etc.) globally.• Designed the architecture, ERDs, determined the application’s stack, and researched best practices for our use case.• Developed all the backend service APIs in Golang using an API-First design approach.• Created our custom component library in Typescript using Storybook.• Developed our web, Apple and Android app using Typescript, Zustand, React Native Expo, etc.• Deployed and managed our GKE (Kubernetes Cluster), and eventually our Google Cloud Run app using Terraform.

• Created a crypto custody solution that custodied our partners (Galaxy, Crypto.com, etc.) cryptocurrencies using a multi-crypto provider model.• Led our project’s Cloud migration, guided team on maintaining their cluster, reviewing their metrics, setting up their pipeline configuration files, and setting up local environments to interact with our (GKE) Google Kubernetes Engine and cloud SQL. • Standardized our REST API development by designing an OpenAPI code generator template in Java Micronaut and Golang Chi and garnered adoption with the Crypto Custody and Lightning Network teams.• Created our in-house Gradle Toolbox Plugin that enforces code coverage, git naming conventions, and linting standards.• Created an event-driven solution that notifies other services of crypto-related events, by implementing a webhook dispatcher using Kafka.• Developed and maintained our custody provider Java SDK library that abstracts our crypto custody provider APIs.

• Founded a blockchain forum to foster discussions on crypto and blockchain and recruited ~4,000 participants and hosted a monthly BlockTalk series that brought in ~150 participants.• Coached different BlockTalk presenters on preparing for their workshops and presentations.• Presented quarterly updates and strategic benchmarks to our group CIO and annual updates to the CTO of Wells Fargo. • Spent 5 months training and mentoring operations team (4 engineers) and SRE team (2 engineers) on maintaining and enhancing WF Digital Cash, the team started making optimization in the 1st week and were full owners by the 3rd month.• Issued 3 patents to solve interoperability between different permissioned networks and another one to secure cryptocurrency with a combination of cryptography techniques and cryptographic devices.• Collaborated with our product, business groups, cryptography departments, and vendors to find the best MPC (multi-party computing) and HSM vendors to find the best tools for our crypto custody solution.• Formulated detailed budget estimations on our securitized lending (repurchase agreements) solution.• Developed WF Digital Cash, WF regulated coin, powered by our internal blockchain network and DApps. -> Developed DApps by writing smart contract code, flows, and interface layers in Kotlin. -> Troubleshooted issues using monitoring and observability tools (ELK, Prometheus, and Splunk) and SQL Server. -> Managed and optimized our event pub/sub system, ActiveMQ.• Reduced our transaction duration (90th percentile average) from ~5 secs to ~0.4 secs and variances (standard deviation) by monitoring critical components in our DApp, like UTXO behaviors, HSM signing, peer to peer networking, smart contracts (flows), and database read and writes.• Made our internal Corda Network more resilient and scalable by orchestrating with different groups in our internal network, including our database, networking, security, and HSM groups.

• Planned and researched what was required to develop a CoE (Center of Excellence) for workflow technologies in the bank and collaborated with external consulting and banking leadership on our findings.- Designed our business rules architecture including staffing, requirements, timelines, resources, and technologies needed, and guidelines.• Setup BBD (behavior-driven development) testing framework, Karate, to run automated tests for our REST services.• Brought our microservice development down from 5 to 2 days, with our Spring Boot microservice template.• Created a meetup for Business Rules Development and brought in IBM as a sponsor, we hosted IRL events and open office hours every month.

• Worked with the California’s welfare program in translating their federal and state policies into Java • Updated the application’s technology, updated their Java code to use the most updated standards in Spring• Collaborated with social workers and cross functional technology teams on debugging and optimizing the application’s performance

• Developed a vision for the application and process, and evaluated features that should be included in each release for the year with management, users, and vendors• Optimized the application’s performance by monitoring and tuning WebSphere 8.5 across three of the servers• Created security measures and enforced them through different policies and technologiesAutomated maintenance tasks by creating internal tools• Trained four colleagues on best practices, debugging strategies, SQL, and writing and maintaining rules in ODM• Reduced the client setup/update process from five days to 10 minutes and made an intensive Java, XML, SQL, and IRL coding project business analyst friendly, by creating automated code generators• Built standalone Java GUI programs allowing non-technical people to write and run complex SQL scripts in seconds• Documented all aspects of the development work, including BOM/XOM development, API calls, rule flows, and rule project setup

• Modified decision tree machine learning algorithms (i.e. CHAID, C5, neural networks) to help retailers find the best assortment of items to include in a category• Assessed project managers’ needs and matched them with effective technical solutions• Designed tools and processes that helped users easily transfer and interpret data from legacy systems • Launched template SAS programs with macros that allows SAS analysts to easily perform procedures for different clients with different circumstances• Streamlined the process of finding category name changes and splits from one week to a day• Built a rule system that helped retailers and vendors collaborate on item assortment decisions saving 20 days of work

• Strives to exceed Walgreen’s revenue and profit goals by pricing consumable categories competitively• Prices consumable categories on a portfolio level by leveraging the categories’ priorities towards competitor prices, size parity relationships, national brand/private brand relationships, and price elasticity• Measures a categories’ success by comparing their fiscal goals to their current status, evaluating their balance between advertising and regular sales, and examining their price indexes in each distribution channel• Helped transition the department from an item level pricing system to a portfolio level pricing system by creating supporting tools

• Delivered optimal results to our clients’, NYU and Chase, by actively researching, presenting, and evaluating our marketing campaigns• Decreased SEM campaigns' cost-per-conversion and increased conversion rate by actively analyzing campaign results• Doubled Chase United/Continental’s daily click volume within a quarter• Increased the NYU Bookstore's brand engagement by driving in 4,333 fans, and 833 SMS members within 8 months by implementing an intensive mobile marketing campaign• Improved our clients’ engagement and provided them with deeper insights on managing their business by implementing and analyzing mobile campaigns• Created pitch decks for potential new clients by finding opportunities in their current campaigns, understanding the target market, researching solutions, and presenting them to upper management

• Researched potential sponsors for our Walk and Roll program• Notified media outlets in the Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan about MB Financial Bank’s Bike the Drive• Solicited tent spaces at our post-festival event to over 100 Chicagoland bicycle clubs and teams• Improvised solutions for the First Aid and Reunion team during MB Financial Bank Bike the Drive• Created sponsorship books that encapsulated MB Financial Bank Bike the Drive

- Developed a national marketing campaign to get students and recent graduates to sign up for the GM&U program, target GM cars towards young adults, and alter the public perception of GM- Strategized with the P.R., Campaign Strategy, Advertising, Finance, Research and Social Media/SEO departments- Created presentation materials using Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Power Point- Empowered 25 of my team members to reach their personal and team’s goals- Established priorities and set objectives for multiple departments to ensure the successful planning of the campaign

- Researched EMR systems in the Health Care industry, medication errors in the distribution and administration process, the MIPPA Act, the Joint Commission evaluation criteria to evaluate Evanston Hospital's current position- Interviewed nurses, doctors, techs, administrators and engineers on their perspective on Patient Safety- Used an Activity, Environment, Interaction, Object, and User table to further understand each sub problem and persona- Conducted a "Sticky Manifesto" to create opportunities for each problem

• Created a database on blogger that write about the layoffs in the legal industry, law school, and technology trends• Contacted different newspapers and magazines on media kit submission guidelines• Researched popular trends in the legal industry through blogs, news articles, and forums

- Researched popular trends in the health foods industry using Google Analytics, insight, and adwords, chat room discussions, and other health and fitness driven media- Created a SEO guidebook for developing the website and produced a radio show advertisement- Designed an appealing package for the Nutritional Institute's new product, Green Latte

- Conducted an industry analysis for the MRO airline industry, and federal government contracting sector- Created and implemented a survey for Karios Worldwide Consulting Group's clients- Analyzed the client's financials and assessed ways to allocate resources and minimize expenses- Developed a training program to familiarize consultants to different projects