experience
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
Software Development Engineer
June 2023 - Present
Seattle, WA
UTD System Security Research Lab
Graduate Researcher
January 2023 - May 2023
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Implemented graph neural network (GNN) explainers for open-source Deep Graph Library (DGL)
Ran case studies regarding applications of graph neural networks for Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)
AWS SageMaker
Software Development Engineer Intern
May 2022 - August 2022
Seattle, WA
Built the team's first metrics pipeline for capturing platform events in realtime and saving them to a data lake
Showcased business intelligence (BI) applications of data lake to measure platform 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
achievements
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
independent projects
tablesalt | January 2023
Peer-to-peer tabletop webapp using WebRTC and built with plugin support in mind
Koala | September 2021
Toy Programming Language and runtime Virtual Machine target written in Rust
Quadtree Visualizer | January 2021
Pure Typescript Quadtree implementation presented through a minimal, interactive physics sandbox
Neural Network Implementations | July 2019
Neural Networks from scratch based on genetic algorithms and backpropagation