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Jersey City, Nj, Us

Tysons, Va, Us

- Collaborated with client military personnel to understand and implement complex military requirements and business logic. Team pioneered using Agile to plan and execute Army directives. Successfully deployed app, used by soldiers during beta testing.- Wrote and maintained backend Java REST APIs for backend Springboot Create Read Update Delete (CRUD) ATIS app including Model View Controller (MVC) components, business logic, and unit tests. Resulted in reliable backend system.- Implemented 0Auth2.0 Role Based Access Control (RBAC) on app endpoints. Created secure by default RBAC developer tools. Resulted in client giving access to soldier Personally Identifying Information (PII) database.- Planned and implemented a migration from Springboot 2 to 3, while leading other engineers. This included updating security code and deployment environment while fixing API mismatches and upgrading Gradle and 21 dependencies. Preventing damages from a potential full contract multi-week work stoppage was paramount, and achieved through proper execution of the project.- Wrote database queries in MySQL/Java Persistence Criteria Builder. Defined and updated database tables used cross-team.- Implemented frontend functionality in React which improved API access and UI experience, resulting in client approval.- Designed custom Golang module mirror based on team desire to adopt the language. Included human and automated security checks to prevent supply chain attacks on government software. Increased confidence in proposing new technology to client.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Languages: Java, Python, AWS S3, AWS CloudWatch- Worked for an Amazon.com critical infrastructure internal authorization and authentication team. This team’s services were a critical dependency for all services at Amazon.- Designed components, led QA, and helped successfully deploy new feature that decreased time to deny unauthorized access to most Amazon services by 98%.- Delivered functional proof of concept; increased confidence in using AWS for access denial feature.- Wrote scripts used to activate access denial. Scripts successfully validated during testing for go-live.- Led QA for access denial; wrote and deployed integration tests, canaries. Facilitated cross-team collaboration for testing strategy.- Audited service; identified missing monitoring on API critical to Amazon.com. Personally prioritized task and fixed issue. Audit proved high traffic event readiness to organization director.- Performed abnormality investigations, endpoint alarm creation, and vulnerability mitigation. This improved reliability, monitoring, and security.Stakeholder management, development for security, test driven development, deployment automation and reliability operations for highly available services.

Darmstadt, Hessen, De

Languages: C, Relic Cryptography Library- Funded by a Fulbright Germany Fellowship (Merit Scholarship) aimed at promoting cultural exchange.- Improved existing searchable encryption scheme and created new schemes with better security properties or improved performance.- Implemented existing and new schemes using C and the Relic Cryptography Library and was able to rule out ineffective new scheme ideas.

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- Led a team of 8 students to host 4 weekly and several one-off social, religious, and charitable events.- Managed a combined budget of $7000 a year used to fund speakers, movies, food, and more.- Directly coordinated a weekly event leading 10-20 students to the hand out food to the homeless.

Newark, Nj, Us

Language: Python- Instructed a freshman level computer science course in Python including weekly open office hours.- Offered support through instant messaging at any time I was available.- Class placed in top 5 highest average overall scores across 26 sections of a coordinated course.

Languages: C++, Python- Re-wrote a legacy Stream Processing (SP) tool (Similar to Apache Kafka) using a modernized, and better supported SP platform.- Coordinated with internal teams using the old platform to ensure compatibility between versions.- Implemented most features of the old platform, including several internship stretch goals.- Designed and implemented migration strategy to seamlessly move users to the new platform.- Completed proof of concept migration and documented the new platform and its migration process.

Newark, New Jersey, Us

Languages: React Native, Javascript- Led a team of 4 to develop a React Native app according to client specifications allowing passengers to view their ETA, real time position, and send notification at their stop.- Responsible for Google Maps API integration, custom ETA calculations, and Android support.- Recorded presentation for industry judges and client. Ranked in the top 5% of a 250+ student class.

Newark, Nj, Us

- Gave one-on-one support for peers on Algebra, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, and Statistics and helped students raise their grades in the class.- Taught students how to solve math problems by a focus on learning the underlying theory of the problem.

Newark, Nj, Us

Languages: Bash- Built 16 computers and installed Linux and MPI then used them as a cluster to test parallelized algorithms.- Benchmarked Eigenvalue solvers using custom bash scripts then created charts and statistics to prove the effectiveness of certain solutions.

Newark, Nj, Us

Languages: Java, Python- Tested Android apps for deep links that would crash them.- Built automation tools to create "bad" deep links, run them on a device, and check logs for crashes.- Researched and advised faculty on the best Android APK decompilation toolsAndroid Deep Linking : Tested 80 popular Android applications for deep links (used to access certain activities within an app) capable of crashing the app by including parameters confusing the link parsing tools. Analyzed app’s documentation, decompiled code, and manifests to find the structure of the links. Then built automation tools in Java useable for further testing.

New York City, Ny, Us

- Worked with other students to provide advice on how to better design curriculum to fit students’ needs.- Analyzed research and provided suggestions on ways to increase class participation and subject comprehension.

East Rutherford, New Jersey, Us

Provided technical support to a non-technical user base and helped users better understand computer tools such as SAP needed for their job.Designed easy to understand training aids that taught non-technical users how to diagnose problems and resulted in direct decrease in need for IT to fix minor problems.

Monrovia, California, Us

- Built daily restock orders for an assigned section based on predictive analysis of foot traffic estimates- Provided customer service and advised purchasing decisions

As Media and IT Assistant I do various tasks to help the business. My tasks include things varying from suggesting which technology products to implement, to setting up A/V equipment for classes. I have worked on many different projects, most notably:- Collecting and entering feedback from over 1000 people, then creating graphs and charts from the data to prove the effectiveness of the class.- Enhancing the video and audio of old and/or poorly recorded videos. I also edited them to better fit the purpose of the class as well as to fit time constraints.- Designing flyers and handouts for the class

Downingtown, Pa, Us

As the Creator of Online Registration for the Theology of the Body Institute, I was contracted to up an online event registration program called Cvent from scratch. I created the registration process for their classes, designed the website, transferred user data over from the previous registration software, configured systems that collected and sorted mass data, set up payment systems, and worked directly with event and IT staff in order to integrate their needs.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

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