Senior software engineer seeking customer-focused role. Always learning, staying curious. Likes to talk to people. I turn ideas into deployable systems that are a joy to use. Passionate about innovative application development.
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. Performed software consulting for local businesses.
Senior Project in Cloud Computing with Prof. George B. Adams, III (senior-project.couetil.com) Spring 2026
- 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, LLM).
- Developed instructional site that automatically grades student assignments, visualizes and clusters data from 1300+ assignment submissions, and provides governance model for in-class AWS use at Purdue University.
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 that distills CCIE expertise into a repeatable, modifiable, and executable workflow customers can use to diagnose issues on Cisco's next-gen 8000 series routers and built Python prototype.
- 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.
- Built services integrating machine learning suites, iPhone metadata, logistics, and pricing capabilities. Worked with monoliths, microservices, databases, and proxies. Created monitoring dashboards for APIs.
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, operations, and fellow developers across many time zones, shipping a packaging and chemical marketplace, a coupon-based referral marketing program, a public chemical regulatory index, a paywall with subscription access flow, a new front-end prototype, and multiple re-designs.
- Managed architecture for all front-end assets, refactored inherited application delivering fewer LOC and more features, collaborated on migration to AWS from Heroku, established CI/CD and testing culture.
- 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).
- Rapidly solved access issues for Educational Institutions and Enterprise during COVID by integrating AWS Cognito SSO with back-end applications, shipping login page enabling authentication features sales team demanded for largest customers. Personally onboarded 30+ organizations and provided support.
- Led workflow improvements increasing developer velocity, transitioned products to CI/CD pipelines, performed code reviews, gave tech talks about engineering, web application development, and testing.