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Torrance, California, United States

Developing software solutions for the current and next generation Leonidas system.+ Rapidly took ownership and responsibility over a few month deadline to integrate advanced sensors into our product by creating a gRPC microservice that controls and polls an external camera.

Developed features and infra for TUs business initiatives and products in India.• Designed and deployed microservices in C++ that process 1+MM transactions/day utilizing gRPC, leading to a 3% reduction in latency vs existing service logic.• Streamlined API client testing by leading the integration of Postman/Wiremock, reducing related defects by 80% and increased developer productivity and experience.• Implemented a Redis caching mechanism for duplicate request detection… Show more Developed features and infra for TUs business initiatives and products in India.• Designed and deployed microservices in C++ that process 1+MM transactions/day utilizing gRPC, leading to a 3% reduction in latency vs existing service logic.• Streamlined API client testing by leading the integration of Postman/Wiremock, reducing related defects by 80% and increased developer productivity and experience.• Implemented a Redis caching mechanism for duplicate request detection, improving average application latency by 90%.• Contributor to architectural design, agile organization, and development of scalable microservices and modular monolith solutions, migrating from a monolithic application.• Leader in creating a collaborative, growth oriented team environment by mentoring associate engineers, enabling them to be impactful. Show less

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Developer working on the latest, cutting edge software capabilities in the Cognitive Electronic Warfare (CogEW) business area at Vadum Inc. At Vadum, a rapidly growing small business, I wore multiple hats and leaned on my strengths in adaptability and collaboration to find solutions to novel problems. Alongside my technical growth, I also had the opportunity to present and interact with customers. I also gained a tremendous amount of Electronic Warfare Subject Knowledge.• Co-lead the… Show more Developer working on the latest, cutting edge software capabilities in the Cognitive Electronic Warfare (CogEW) business area at Vadum Inc. At Vadum, a rapidly growing small business, I wore multiple hats and leaned on my strengths in adaptability and collaboration to find solutions to novel problems. Alongside my technical growth, I also had the opportunity to present and interact with customers. I also gained a tremendous amount of Electronic Warfare Subject Knowledge.• Co-lead the design and development of a SIGINT and Decision Aid product in C++/Python, earning a follow on contract.• Aided in the design, development, and enhancement of an advanced online radar characterization framework.• Contributed to a RF modeling and simulation environment in Python/MATLAB to test our products end to end at the PDW granularity.• Researched and implemented higher fidelity EW test assets, resulting in increased capability test coverage.• Modularized advanced CogEW machine learning algorithms and components into C++, increasing portability and reducing latency.• Contributed to development of a real time, high input rate streaming framework in C++.• Presented ML/AI situational awareness algorithms and product results to customers.• Aided in SBIR white paper project proposals as both scientific researcher and developer. Show less

San Diego, California

• Created a statistics and visualization framework to improve data analysis workflow.• Made data collection procedure guide to organize assembly production test data.• Developed prototype software for assembly production optimizations and automations.

- Did exploratory data analysis, and data cleaning, on a data set with over 8 million samples.- Reported exploratory findings, such as feature covariances, that were used to inform model choice.- Developed predictive models to help solve two separate regression problems—autoregressive andmultivariate regression tasks.- Trained and tested ARIMA, LSTM, and deep NN models to forecast construction permit growth.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Cognitive Science With Specialization In Machine Learning & Neural Computation

Activities and Societies: NCAA Water Polo Athlete. Data Science Student Society Member. Minor: Computer Science Technical courses.

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Activities and Societies: Varsity Water Polo (4 years).