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Menlo Park, CA, US

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

San Francisco, CA, US

New York, NY, US

• Establish automated testing infrastructure and processes for microservice architecture distributed application, in order to support more frequent automated releases
• Develop tooling such as GitLab CI pipelines, Slack notification workflows, and integration with ReportPortal to enable continuous testing, and to monitor and analyze test performance
• Work with other departments and third-party vendors to evaluate automation solutions, develop automation strategies, and define best practices and SLAs
• Work closely with DevOps team to set up infrastructure for automation of software releases
• Mentor junior engineers and created a test automation guild to build up shared test automation best practices

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Automated build and release process for custom Linux-based firmware image
• Implemented end-to-end automated testing of consumer electronics device
• Worked with Operations team to change release process from a manual process run on a local build machine to a fully automated solution using Bamboo CI and cloud-based EC2 build agents
• Implemented a Test-Driven Development process to develop Linux firmware to manage UI, audio, and power system functions
• Helped junior engineers to bring them up to speed on development processes and help them to quickly make valuable contributions to the team
• Helped team transition to fully remote work during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Helped with development of the custom Yocto Linux OS for a consumer electronics device, as well as testing and debugging of various hardware and software issues
• Set up build and test infrastructure to run a full suite of tests on a nightly and per-commit basis, enabling rapid high-quality feature development

Round Rock, Texas, US

Planned, designed, and developed applications to automate testing of disk drives and SSDs from various manufacturers for performance and reliability, and to prepare the drives to feed into the EMC Manufacturing Process. Applications were written in C# using a custom test platform designed in-house. Responsibilities included working with many other teams.

Burlington, MA, US

This coop involved converting a program that was written in MATLAB into C code for performance reasons. The program was used to process 3D radar imaging data, and involved implementing fast fourier transforms over large data sets.

Round Rock, Texas, US

Coop in the global hardware engineering group at EMC. Responsibilities included early verification testing of newly developed hardware platforms, managing inventory of prototype boards, debugging hardware and software issues, and ensuring that required design updates were made when issues were discovered.

Round Rock, Texas, US

Internship in the Array Qualification group in EMC's Clariion division. Responsibilities included setting up EMC systems for testing, creating and executing test plans to ensure new features worked according to requirements, analyzing test run results, and working with engineers to root cause issues and determine corrective actions.

Master'S Degree, Software Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Computer Engineering