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Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Architected a prototype for a full stack bias analysis application in preparation for stakeholder presentations with Microsoft and the Associated Press.• Developed an NLP pipeline with PyTorch, Captum, spaCy, and NLTK that utilizes a fine-tuned Hugging Face BERT model for inference.• Designed a web scraping tool and a MySQL database to interface directly with the NLP pipeline.• Maintained proper version control using Git and GitHub and constructed Docker containers with Nvidia CUDA support for development.• Collaborated with client in bi-weekly meetings to discuss budgeting of hardware worth 10k+.• Co-authored a technical report for stakeholder presentations, saving the client $1.8k+ in resourcing.

Lenexa, Kansas, United States

• Created 5 utilities for interfacing with variable length encoded binary data, including specialized implementations of GNU cat, head, tail, and grep, with 4-8+ options each.• Designed and implemented extensions to a custom data processing programming language, including modifications to the compiler and virtual machine bytecode to support a new data format.• Collaborated in an Agile development environment, participating in bi-weekly sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and regular code reviews with 7+ engineers.• Utilized GNU gprof and cProfile to profile, analyze, and optimize C++ and Python code for production deployment.• Leveraged Git to develop and iterate upon several features simultaneously while adhering to version control best practices.• Delivered a comprehensive presentation showcasing the functionality of each utility for managerial and executive review across multiple departments.

Tampa, Florida, United States

Tutored a student one-on-one in differential equations as a part of the USF Jenkins Scholars program.

Tampa, Florida, United States

Assisted professors with teaching by providing one-on-one help to students during lectures. Helped professors with grading and hosting exam reviews for students outside of lectures.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics And Computer Science, 4.0/4.0

Activities and Societies: University Math Society Society of Software DevelopersCollege of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean's List: Spring.

Associate Of Arts - Aa, 4.0/4.0

College of Engineering Dean's List: Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022.

High School Diploma, International Baccalaureate, 3.89/4.0

Activities and Societies: HHS Gaming Club Co-founder Hydra Robotics Vice President