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New York, NY, US

New York, New York, US

- Lead on Doscar project, a fully machine-agnostic standardized development environment. With the help of my fellow leads, took the project from 0 to nearly 100% engineering-wide adoption. Specific highlights include implementing Redis and Postgres sidecars and developing a first of its kind PyCharm on x86 Docker solution.Technologies Used: Docker- Wrote.

Berkeley, CA, US

Working on optimizations and next steps for Autopandas.

Palo Alto, CA, US

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/01/accel-launches-uc-berkeley-mentorship-program/

Berkeley, CA, US

Instructor for first ever iteration of a Data Engineering course under professors Aditya Parameswaran and Joe Hellerstein. Developed material such as projects and quizzes from scratch while also handling standard course logistics. For this work, I received a 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award and was also acknowledged in the following.

Berkeley, CA, US

Instructor with upper-division databases course. Primary duties included teaching sections; hosting office hours; co-developing a new NoSQL project; writing, reviewing, and grading exam questions; and recording discussion walkthroughs and other content.

New York, New York, US

Worked on the Messaging team on the Mobile Texting platform. Rolled out an API to add support for MMS to our mobile texting platform. Also built an events logging platform to track members through our mobile texting workflow via AWS SQS.Technologies Used: Python, gRPC, Postgres

Berkeley, CA, US

Taught introductory computer science class at UC Berkeley (also, the largest class on campus with 2000+ enrolled). Responsibilities include teaching lab and discussion, writing and grading exams, crafting resources and guides, hosting office hours, assisting with course software development, and managing course logistics.

Berkeley, California, US

Teach sections of our introductory CS course, CS61A, as well as lead other mentors by guiding them through effective teaching tutorials. I also work with course staff to design supplemental worksheets, film exam walkthroughs and establish the curriculum.

Berkeley, CA, US

Worked on the automatminer project, an automatic prediction engine for materials properties (https://github.com/hackingmaterials/automatminer). Designed and implemented a neural network adaptor with Keras and scikit-learn that uses a genetic algorithm to optimize neural network architecture.

Menlo Park, CA, US

1 of 50 engineering fellows selected from over 3000 applicants.Named the #2 summer internship program by Vault (out of over 400 programs), the KP Fellows Program is an intensive, high-impact summer program for students pursuing careers in engineering, design, and product. In addition to completing an internship at a company within the KP portfolio, fellows.

Mountain View, CA, US

Designed and implemented an offline-to-online data pipeline between Amazon Redshift and Amazon Aurora MySQL using Scala on the Infrastructure team.Technologies Used: Scala, AWS, Java