-Decided to spend personal reflection time and finally pursue a passion for screenwriting that I discovered in my late 20's, structuring and writing out my various screenplay ideas while coming up with new ones.-In conjunction, I read and watched online content elucidating various aspects of the filmmaking process works and different roles/careers within the film industry, synthesizing ideas/thoughts through personal notes. I needed to see a different side of reality outside of tech. -Produced my first properly formatted screenplay, 33 pages about a hypothetical bar encounter between a Vietnam War veteran, a military history nerd, and a Vietnamese American bartender-Now looking to transition back into the tech industry

Helped friend build Language App -Onboarded college interns onto project, clarifying weekly design goals and app function -Translated “linguistics-domain goals” into concrete programming objectives for interns

-Managed advertising campaigns platform handling creation, management, pricing and reporting pipelines used by customers-Developed internal/external microservice systems to support/extend ad campaigns -Routinely diagnosed root causes of “stuck” ad campaigns with workflow automation tools-Reduced computational throughput of metrics reporting pipeline by 50% with multithreading measured in Datadog APM dashboard visualizations-Collaborated with product and marketing team on their initiatives

Modified ETL pipelines for data warehouse to enhance insightfulness of ecommerce reporting

-Spring Boot projects with relational data and Angular frontend for freight shipping industry-Engaged in full software development life cycle for and worked with business analysts on web application managing finances for shipping cargo-Enhanced route/cost optimization app for ocean/road freight shipping orders by extending complex business logic evaluating constraints and specifications on metadata-Assisted with miscellaneous UI changes for multi-field forms on the frontend

Extended/refactored Java/Python code to invoke batch processing of AI models on tickets in multi-cluster microservices architecture with rapidly changing environments.Helped manage/configure pods, services, and deployments on Kubernetes clusters. Using JDBC, migrated tenant-specific data between relational databases as per schema.

Worked on improving job applicant evaluation using NLP techniques

Interned with the data engineering team of a company that automates mortgage application processingWrote Java code to ensure that information in loan files is consistent with entities in database and formatted properly, ran SQL queries Built REST API in Java using Boot from Spring FrameworkExperience with build automation tools like Maven and Gradle

Research assistant for Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Berkeley Using machine learning to perform automatic text summarisation of web pages and research publicationsUsed Python packages scikitlearn and nltk

Helped students understand CS concepts and coding in Python and SQL

I tutored students in English for the AVID program.

Intern for Pf. Puragra GuhaThakurta under UC Santa Cruz’s Science Internship Program (SIP)Developed a script (in IDL) to automate carbon star detectionValidated results through a visual inspection process

I tutored first generation college students in chemistry at the Foundation for a College Education Centre in East Palo Alto.