Experience

Software Engineer · Seattle, WA

Currently employed at Amazon on the Prime Video Data Platform team as a software engineer.

Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant, CS 4400 Database Systems · Atlanta, GA

• Taught Introduction to Database Systems to 450 students across 2 sections.

• SQL
• Databases

Software Engineering Intern · Phoenix, AZ

• Built a server monitor with Quartz jobs that tracks application processes and increases server availability.
• Added self-healing that is fail-safe and persistent, reducing the need for manual server restarts.
• Automated ACH file creation from NACHA configurations to improve a batch-as-a-service application.
• Used non-blocking database calls with coroutines to process payments and speed up batch processing.
• Developed a serverless API to GET payment history and cut retrieval time by 57%.

• Spring Boot
• Kotlin
• Coroutines
• Quarkus
• PostgreSQL

Software Engineering Intern · Phoenix, AZ

• Developed a microservice API that validates bank accounts for new merchants in 50+ international markets.
• Cut bank detail validation from 2 days to 10 seconds with an external API.
• Wrote test suites with TDD that reached 90% code coverage.
• Encrypted credentials, added build scripts, and deployed to the AMEX merchant characteristics server.
• Used concurrent asynchronous calls to reduce latency for external calls by 40%.

• Java
• Vert.x
• Accuity API
• Mockito
• JUnit
• Jenkins

Software Engineering Intern · Tallahassee, FL

• Helped build a testing platform with certifications, item banking, and remote proctoring.
• Made item banks more customizable, so customers could write new test questions faster.
• Sped up the grading platform by refactoring the manual scoring page render.
• Built a usage calculator and billing rules that replaced manual cost calculation.
• Used customer feedback to make day-to-day tasks faster and easier to navigate.

• TypeScript
• Knockout.js
• C#
• .NET
• SQL

VIP Researcher, Curve Sign Team · Atlanta, GA

• Automated testing with a full dataset of validation cases.
• Added visual tests that check signs by type and location.
• Made curve sign maps and tables export to PDF faster.
• Made signs draggable and measurable on the dashboard map.
• Customized GeoJSON data to group signs better and projected latitude and longitude coordinates onto the map.

• Python
• Matplotlib
• jQuery
• GeoJSON

Member · Atlanta, GA

• Learned the MERN stack in Georgia Tech's web development club, from React components and routing to APIs and MVC on the backend.

• React
• Node
• Express
• MongoDB

Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta, GA

4.0 GPA

Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta, GA

4.0 GPA · Intelligence and Information Internetworks