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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Mountain View, California, United States

• Enhancing Remote Desktop Agent and Experience features for Omnissa Horizon, leveraging Typescript and C++ to seamlessly integrate native code for high-performance web interfaces.• Led the production and testing of a WebRTC SDK extension to enhance Horizon’s compatibility withWebRTC-based web applications.• Drive strategic customizations in remote features with key partners like Citrix, Amazon, andGoogle to meet requirements for high-priority products such as WebEx, Amazon Connect, and ChromeOS.

Mountain View, California, United States

• Assumed additional responsibilities and expanded my role within the Remote Desktop Agent and Experience organization for the VMware Horizon product.• Collaborate with team members on architecture, design, coding, security, privacy, quality, and testing for numerous Remote Experience features such as Browser Content Redirection, Geolocation, Microsoft Teams, and multimedia optimization features.• Proactively maintain unit test frameworks to keep code coverage above 70%• Shipped high‑priority Browser Content Redirection for VMware Horizon on Linux, utilizing Chromium Embedded Framework and X11 APIs.• Streamlined the build process and reduced development time by updating Scons scripts.

Palo Alto, California, United States

• Collaborated with team members in the Remote Experience organization to successfully design and develop Browser Content Redirection for Horizon on ChromeOS.• Led a meaningful proof-of-concept initiative to optimize browsing for Virtual Desktops on ChromeOS using TypeScript. This initiative laid the foundation for the delivered solution.• Developed extensive Angular unit tests, achieving an 85% code coverage, and significantly increased the identification of bugs in the production environment.• Integrated Google Admin Console, empowering end-users to manage functionality and security seamlessly.

College Park, Maryland, United States

• Provided one‑on‑one guidance and support to students, helping them grasp complex topics, troubleshoot coding issues, and develop problem‑solving skills.• Aided students in learning Java by debugging code, explaining algorithms, and providing code optimization recommendations.

Seattle, Washington, United States

College Park, Maryland, United States

Greater Seattle Area

Instruct K-12 children on basic coding concepts, problem solving skills and engineering; through robotics, Minecraft Modding and web development using Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and Arduino.

Greater Seattle Area

Instruct K-8 on basic coding concepts through scratch, robotics and Javascript.