Contributed to the development of the Keys to Literacy and Learning website, utilizing HTML, CSS, and PHP for user integration and data handling for all our administrators.
Develop and distribute weekly newsletters to the KTLL team detailing technical info and weekly expectations.
Software Engineering Intern
Optum - UnitedHealth Group
06.2024 - 08.2024
Created a real-time data streaming system using Apache Kafka and Go, filtering and formatting millions of canonical Avro data, resulting in $60,000 annual savings and potential $10 million savings organization-wide.
With a team, used Kubernetes and Docker to efficiently containerize and deploy our project for the SAEO team, delivering enhanced solutions to the team's 135+ downstream consumers within Optum.
Developed a Grafana dashboard to showcase project efficiency and cost savings, demonstrating a 67% reduction in resource consumption for company servers.
Software Engineering Co-op
Alpine Software - Subsidiary of Banyan Software
01.2023 - 08.2023
Collaborated with lead software engineers to support 700+ fire and EMS departments worldwide, including providing personalized customer solutions at 4 different trade shows.
Led an independent project to recreate a 24/7 active dashboard using the Flutter framework. The dashboard integrated live SQL data and MapBox, which resulted in a 23% cost reduction monthly within our Azure servers.
Created personalized reports in Delphi for 25 different departments to display fire department data, volunteer point reporting, and safety-course evaluations, utilizing SQL for data retrieval based on user requirements.
Git, AWS, Azure, Rest, Kafka, Docker, Jest, Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana, Agile, Scrum, Linux
Education
Rochester Institute of Technlogy - Rochester, NY August 2020 - May 2025
Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering
Projects
MisTeePro App & Portal - Senior Capstone | August 2024 - June 2025
Collaborated with a team of four to develop the MisTeePro App, a bilingual app for IOS and Android, supporting 7+ user roles, 3 subscription tiers, and payment integration using Stripe.
Implemented AI-driven hair type recognition using AWS Rekognition, which was trained over 1,000 images spanning over 12 different hair types, included are also custom detection regions for the model too.
Built an administrative web portal using React, enabling tracking of commissions, product inventory, and bugs that have been reported within the app.
Designed 50+ wireframes on Figma for both systems, and created these wireframes on the product side using React Native, Typescript, and emulation hosted by Expo.
Coins of Olympus NFT - Personal Project | September 2021 - February 2022
Created a non-fungible token with a team, which included implementing an algorithm to image process the artwork automatically.
Developed a Discord bot that provides real-time price tracking for the Olympus (DHM) decentralized currency.
Additionally, I created a contemporary website that effectively conveyed deployment information about the project and allowed users to purchase the token using the user’s MetaMask wallet.
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