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The Colony, Tx, Us

Leveraged Contour, Spring Cloud Gateway and base K8s objects to restructure the entire user ingress to an entire cloud based application to meet security standards.Leveraged JavaHotspot JVM flags and K8s to tweak memory usage for cloudbased application to optimize for cost savings.Built multiple business driven features in backend to deliver to clients.

Built features for and helped maintain code and infrastructure for a Spring Boot application adhering to Domain Driven Design and deployed as Microservices on a cloud Kubernetes platform. I worked on many business deliverables as well as infrastructure and DevOps items including but not limited to:Integrating Kerberos passwordless based authentication.Leveraging Jules/Jenkins to parameterize K8s objects for more dynamic deployments.Also won an internal Domain Drive Design competition to model a rideshare application along with a team of coworkers.

Atlanta, Georgia

Worked as an undergraduate researcher.• Selected as 1 of 10 finalists out of an applicant pool of 277 to participate in a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) for Immersive Media Computing for 8 weeks at Georgia State University. • Engaged in research under the supervision of a faculty supervisor. • Built a plug-in for Maya 2019 using their C++ API that takes a volumetrically motion captured animated mesh sequence and derives joint motion from surface data and kinematics.

Austin, Texas Area

Worked as a software engineer on IBM Cloud's Kubernetes Service. • Built an automated worker update framework in Go that upgraded the Kubernetes version of each cluster’s workers when it’s master was upgraded. Also, I optimized and limited network calls to etcd via a batch update system for larger clusters. • Created automated tests for the framework using Bash and Jenkins. • Wrote documentation on how to make a readiness probe shell script that uses nvidia-smi to do health checks on GPU nodes.

Frankfort, Kentucky

Software Developer Lead for the Brain Scholar Project. • Collaborated with neuroscientists, biomedical engineers, and mathematicians to model brain activity. • Developed a full stack application with visualizations and tutorials for Android, iOS, and a Java Desktop application as a learning tool for kids interested in Neuroscience. • Utilized Java, Swift, Python, XML.