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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States

• Upgraded a network of 20+ web application servers from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8, maintaining functionality while enhancing manageability, performance, and security.• Set up and connected MongoDB and MariaDB for data storage, transmission, and global user account management.• Configured custom services, logs, firewall rules, cronjobs, users, and groups.• Automated setup and configuration through scripts and Ansible playbooks, improving efficiency and repeatability.

Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States

• Developed and debugged code using C, Java, Bash, and GDB in a Linux environment.• Managed the development lifecycle of twelve major software releases by reviewing and publishing code.• Ensured software integrity through comprehensive testing before and after each release.• Enhanced servers with new features including firewalls and RAID 10 redundancy.• Designed and implemented Microsoft Visio schematics to validate device wiring.• Implemented Phabricator with Git for version control.

• Secured a major client for a commercial real estate technology startup by developing a PDF report generating module utilizing HTML, CSS, TypeScript, React.js, and Node.js• Integrated data from an API to generate a unique report for each property.• Created 100+ Tableau charts using data from multiple datasets gathered from CSV and excel files.

• Quant Accountability is a Data-Leadership Lab for professionals transitioning into a career in technology while learning or enhancing their professional development and leadership skills. Participants work on real world technology initiatives through sponsor companies while simultaneously incorporating certified leadership and professional development training.• Scraped each 10-K filing from the SEC EDGAR database, creating a dataset with over 160,000 entries which was then stored in an ElasticSearch database.• Analyzed dataset with Beautiful Soup, Pandas, and Jupyter Notebook in order to facilitate natural language processing on the data.

Newark, Delaware, United States

• Maintained an AWS server on Apache, configuring it with PHP and the HotCRP web-based package.• Authored a research paper on the cybersecurity gaps in cars, referencing 20+ sources• Determined smartphone passwords by analyzing charging port voltage changes using an oscilloscope and a Python machine learning script.