experience
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
Software Development Engineer
June 2023 - Present
Seattle, WA
Maintainer for EKS-Optimized Worker Node AMIs and open-source AMI build specifications
Maintainer for EKS test suites, including accelerated workloads (eg. NVIDIA GPU benchmarks), Kubernetes features (eg. DRA), AWS-specific hardware (eg. EFA), and more
Co-launched EKS-Optimized Amazon Linux 2023 AMIs & Author of nodeadm, a rewrite of the node bootstrapping script for EKS focused on config-driven APIs
Co-launched EKS Node Auto Repair Feature & Author of the EKS Node Monitoring Agent
Developed the AMIs for EKS Auto Mode and worked on strategic features to increase adoption
Launched EKS support for NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 (NVLink Network Servers), including support for NVIDIA IMEX integration over Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation
UTD System Security Research Lab
Graduate Researcher
January 2023 - May 2023
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Implemented Graph Neural Network Explainer algorithms for DGL (Deep Graph Library)
Ran case studies regarding applications of Graph Neural Networks for Intrusion Detection Systems
AWS SageMaker
Software Development Engineer Intern
May 2022 - August 2022
Seattle, WA
Built the first production telemetry tooling for the platform, streaming events to a data lake with automated schema inference
Showcased business intelligence applications of collected data to measure service health and growth
Tritech Software Development
Software Developer
June 2020 - March 2022
Allen, TX
Refactored a monolithic Java app into a cloud-oriented, REST microservice architecture using Kotlin, Spring, Hibernate, and PostgreSQL
Supervised integrations with Auth0 and reviewed changes to the authentication pipeline
Provisioned cloud infrastructure using Terraform and created Jenkins CI/CD jobs to orchestrate builds, dockerization, staging, and deployments
Brought frontend (Angular) development in-house from a consulting partner and setup end-to-end testing with Cypress
accomplishments
2022 NSA Codebreaker Challenge: High Performer
HackUTD IX: 1st place under Nebula Labs API Challenge
HackUTD VIII: 1st place under General Catagory
HackUTD VII: 2nd place under Texas Outage Recovery Solution
HackUTD VI: 1st place under Best Text Objectivity Analysis