education


Certificate in Cyber Defense

University of Texas at Dallas

August 2022 - May 2023

M.S. in Cyber Security

University of Texas at Dallas

August 2022 - May 2023

B.S. in Computer Science

University of Texas at Dallas

August 2019 - May 2022

tools


Kubernetes, Docker, WebAssembly, React, Angular, Svelte, Spring, Hibernate, Jenkins, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Pytorch, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Android (AOSP), OAuth

languages


Go, Rust, Java, Kotlin, Javascript + Typescript, Python, HTML/CSS, C/C++, SQL, GraphQL

interests


Cyber Security

Distributed Systems

Extended Reality

Game Design

Language & Compiler Design

Machine Learning

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