Experience

My professional journey from startups to big tech

Software Engineer

Alphabet / Google

Mountain View, CA August 2022 – Present
  • Successfully productionized Jetpack authentication flows to surface passkeys on the Android OS, a new form of credentials
  • Designed and implemented metrics system to analyze passkey flows and adoption across the platform
  • Generated various full-stack sample applications that showcase to partners how to utilize new passkey flows
  • Mentored first batch of mentees, helping them grow in their engineering careers

MIT 6A Fellow – Machine Learning Research

MIT & Cadence Design Systems

Burlington, MA June 2021 – June 2022
  • Built a Monte Carlo Tree Search system in Java with reinforcement learning augmentations, inspired by AlphaGo
  • Applied novel RL techniques to solve printed circuit board (PCB) routing problems that were previously unsolved
  • Focused on creating feedback loops with constant improvement in terms of actions taken to solve boards
  • Thesis available on MIT DSpace; worked with Professor Cathy Wu and Cadence engineers

Software Development Engineer Intern

Amazon Prime Video

Seattle, WA (Virtual) June 2020 – August 2020
  • Researched and designed entire system, implementing modular and well-documented code for future maintenance
  • Created a provider for team's machine learning platform using Java and AWS CDK
  • Successfully integrated multiple teams' software and dependencies through inter-team technical communication
  • Crafted team-approved design patterns using abstract data types, immutability, and extensible safe code

Software Development Intern

Brain Power

Cambridge, MA January 2019 – August 2019
  • Researched and designed one of the company's first complete Unity C# modules for AR autism support tools
  • Built systems reading high-fidelity sensory data to feed accurate information to Google Glass AR systems
  • Completed extensive cost analysis and performance testing ensuring optimal device performance
  • Prototyped AR game to comfort autistic children, featuring 3D portal spheres between rooms

Founding Software Development Engineer

Buddi (Mental Health Startup)

Cambridge, MA September 2017 – December 2018
  • Created Android and iOS apps with Java and Swift for use by IRB study participants
  • Built entire Python Flask backend for app and IRB research study; first author for BMES poster
  • Created Java client backend to analyze Android OS-level data; migrated backends to Node.js
  • Implemented TensorFlow/Keras emotion recognition CNN using ResNet and seq2seq chatbot

Technical Skills

Languages

Java, Python, C++, C#, JavaScript, Swift, Go

Frameworks

Flask, React Native, Node.js, Spring, Unity, TensorFlow

Cloud & Tools

AWS, CDK, Docker, Git, Linux/Ubuntu

Leadership

MIT UAV Club President, ISA Webmaster