Software Engineer on the Databases and Search team, focused on relational database access and search functionality in Appian's Java low-code platform.• Designed, implemented, and tested features to enhance relational database access and search functionality.• Implemented components of two new database access mechanisms in Java, including core database access components, a logging and monitoring mechanism, and an integration testing framework.• Enhanced a MariaDB high-availability architecture configured in Bash and Python.• Led a successful effort to overhaul an authentication mechanism between two systems.• Led team meetings and facilitated feature delivery and process as an Agile coach.

Software Engineer on the Databases and Search team, focused on Appian's cloud database offering and search functionality in Appian's Java low-code platform.• Developed, with a high degree of ownership, components of an automated process in Python and Bash which successfully migrated over 2,000 customer production environments from MySQL to MariaDB.• Developed automatic checks for migration compatibility and success.• Deployed Orchestrator, a MySQL and MariaDB cluster management tool, to increase the reliability of Appian's cloud database offering.• Founding member of a newly formed team. Helped cement team processes and cultures.

Command and Data Handling Subsystem Lead for PAWSS, a payload built by the Student Space Programs Lab and launched on the NASA G-Chaser rocket to study polar mesosphere winter echoes.• Critical contributor to system-level planning and system-level decisions in the design of the payload.• Led the design, development, implementation, and testing of the Command and Data Handling subsystem. The subsystem involved a single-board Linux computer and C++ data-handling software.• Deeply involved in the coordination and execution of payload assembly, integration, and testing of all hardware and software components.

Command and Data Handling subsystem engineer for Osiris-3U, a cube satellite developed by the Student Space Programs Lab.• Developed a schedule parser in C for the Linux flight computer.• Contributed to the Command and Data Handling Concept of Operations.

Worked with the R&D team to explore how Jadak could leverage deep learning for a variety of use cases in the medical field. • Wrote deep learning model evaluation, testing, and demo applications in Python.• Implemented a proprietary communication protocol on a Raspberry Pi.• Created a Python wrapper library for a C software development kit.

Software Engineering Intern for the Counter-UAS embedded software team.• Developed C++ software for the central Linux computer in a Counter-UAS system.• Created a built-in self-test, which monitored the system at runtime and reported problems to the user.