Senior Software Engineer developing full-stack systems, cloud-native tooling, automation, and internal platforms. Industry experience across startups, Apple, and Cisco, with strong product judgment and technical communication.
Distinctions
- Teaching Assistant for courses Cloud Computing (Summer '25, Spring '26), Computer Architecture (Fall '25).
- Selected as student advocate of Purdue's College of Science nominees for Undergraduate Teaching Award.
- Received Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Worked for local businesses.
Senior Project in Cloud Computing with Prof. George B. Adams, III (senior-project.couetil.com) Spring 2026
- Built cloud-native instructional platform that autograded AWS assignments, analyzed 2,648 submissions, produced self-service dashboards, and supported AWS governance, cost tracking, and course operations.
- Wrote four new cloud computing assignments providing students a practical introduction to cloud computing vendors (AWS), infrastructure automation tools (Ansible, Terraform), virtualization technologies (containers, hypervisors), orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Compose), and AI/ML applications (YOLO CNN).
- Students are scaling a startup, "bird.ai", from MVP to Exit. Assignment 4 has students execute a Strangler Fig migration from EC2/RDS to EKS, extracting a YOLO CNN inference microservice from a Django application.
Software Engineering Project: Sous Chef AI cooking assistant for college students (www.souschef.life) Fall 2025
- Crafted "Nutritionist" experience with LLM-controlled UI to collaboratively build recipes and create meal plans.
- Agentic loop powered by Python, Django, LangChain, OpenRouter, using Kimi K2 Thinking + Grok 4.1 Fast
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cisco San Jose, CA July 2025 - September 2025
Technical Marketing Engineer Intern solving problems for the world's largest service providers and hyperscalers.
- Designed product customers can use to diagnose issues on Cisco's next-gen 8000 series routers and built Python prototype that distills CCIE expertise into a repeatable, modifiable, and executable workflow.
- Studied Silicon One ASIC and IOS-XR architecture to inform diagnostic and deployment strategies. Emulated service provider network for testing, running BGP on edge nodes, IS-IS within AS, routing traffic to per-customer VPN, and distributing route information with segment routing over MPLS and IPv6 (SRv6).
Apple Remote, Contract February 2023 - September 2023
Senior Software Engineer building performant systems to support Apple product sales and sustainability efforts.
- Enabled official device trade-ins for third-party resellers in 7 countries, securely exposing internal diagnostic tools and managing data for vendors using Ruby on Rails, Go, and PostgreSQL on AWS.
- Integrated ML and pricing systems across Apple teams and vendors. Built API dashboards using Datadog.
Novi Connect San Francisco, CA April 2021 - August 2022
Full-stack Software Engineer and front-end lead for sustainable product development startup (series-A).
- Delivered projects on tight deadlines with ambiguous requirements by working closely with product, marketing, design, and operations, across many time zones, shipping a packaging and chemical marketplace, a coupon-based referral marketing program, a public chemical regulatory index, and subscription-based paywall.
- Managed front-end architecture, refactored inherited application to deliver fewer LOC and more features, supported Heroku-to-AWS migration, and introduced GitHub Actions CI/CD and automated testing practices.
- Mentored junior developers, pair programmed, wrote documentation, delivered tech talks across the company, managed work for contracted engineers, implemented front/back-end third-party integrations.
WGSN New York, NY January 2019 - November 2020
Software Engineer on core services team for top fashion trend forecasting and analytics company (FTSE 250).
- Deployed product-wide AWS Cognito SSO and personally onboarded 33 universities and brands during COVID, shipping login page enabling authentication features sales team demanded for largest customers.
- Shipped faster by transitioning manual application deployments into automated Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.