API Gateway Engineer

Experienced in NGINX API Gateway management, CI/CD automation, and cross-team Nginx Configuration validation scripting to ensure high-quality deployments and seamless API integrations.

• Developed PR validation scripts for cross-team NGINX YAML configs, preventing invalid configuration inputs using dynamic regex checks, ensuring domain resolvability and region mapping while incorporating robust unit and integration tests to boost team accuracy and efficiency.

• Used Jenkins to automate CI/CD pipelines, and configured NGINX to serve as our high-performance reverse proxy for API services, automating new domain onboarding and optimizing routing/security.

• Created detailed documentation and onboarding processes for API gateway configurations, reducing errors and streamlining cross-team collaboration.

Led a cross-functional of 6 engineers to develop a RoBERTa-based machine learning pipeline using Pytorch and Hugging Face Transformers, enhancing Cody, an AI assistant, and achieving a 10% increase in response accuracy.

• Developed a comprehensive dataset by collecting documentation and issue pages from over 10,000 open-source repositories.

• Utilized web scraping tools such as Beautiful Soup and Scrapy to gather and rank repository data relative to more than 150 queries with known ground truths.

• Preprocessed and tokenized text data using RobertaTokenizer to prepare it for model training.

• Trained and Optimized the RoBERTa model to rank and return the top k documentation/issues combinations that most accurately answer our queries.

• Evaluated model performance by comparing outputs with ground truths, measuring response improvements using different context combinations.

• Analyzed data to identify the most useful context sources, enhancing the model's ability to select relevant information and improving overall response accuracy.

• Communicated complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders, facilitating better decision-making across departments.

• Spearheaded club recruitment efforts in collaboration with other campus organizations, delivering presentations and outreach initiatives that engaged over 500+ students within two weeks.

• Coordinated 10+ professional development and industry networking events, including company info-sessions, technical resume workshops, and tech talks, facilitating connections between 250+ students and industry leaders such as SpaceX and Activision Blizzard.

• Managed and executed the annual Cub Fair, a tech-focused career fair featuring 10+ industry-leading companies, providing networking and career opportunities for over 500+ students.

• Secured a partnership with DoorDash, offering exclusive discounts and resources to club members, resulting in over $200 in savings for students.

• Optimized API Gateway performance using Unix sockets with IPC.

• Implemented dynamic buffering for Nginx upstream server, reducing memory usage by 40% and client data transfer latency by 30%.

• Developed an interactive web tool to predict average prison time served, promoting fairness in the justice system.

• Parsed database and programmed business logic to calculate dynamic averages for specific cases.

• Presented tool to courtroom officials in Missouri to influence truth-in-sentencing decisions.