Recent new grad with a strong software engineering background, entering the field with two years of wide experience ranging from devops to full stack. Interests include furthering my skills in any and every direction and to work on problems with a passion.
Experience
2019 — Now
Greater Chicago Area
• React Native and Ruby on Rails software engineer on the Meraki Go mobile team
• Researched, implemented, and presented solution for an over-the-air update deployment system for our Cisco Meraki Go mobile app. Work on this endeavor reduced turnaround time to deploy a hot fix from several days to less than an hour
• Designed and prototyped multiple week-long projects, including converting old mobile
devices into active IoT sensors on our Cisco Meraki dashboard
• Currently spearheading further work on a hack week project to transform it into a full-
fledged Cisco Meraki product
• Coordinate across teams and disciplines to deliver new user-facing features on a bi-
weekly basis, including account creation, dark mode, and two-factor authentication
• Drive to learn has prevented siloing, allowing me to work with a diverse set of technologies such as Jenkins, Microsoft’s App Center, Docker + Kubernetes deployments, and automated end-to-end mobile testing
• Orchestrate and deploy our beta and production mobile apps onto the Google Play and Apple App Store
• Mentored multiple interns and guided them to implement several key features, giving them a positive experience and ultimately resulting in all of them accepting return offers
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Worked on developing a Salesforce platform for administrators to add and modify patient information and their protected health information. Platform required extensive testing of logic to ensure patient information falls within certain criteria with respect to the field itself and its relationship to other information.
2018 — 2018
2018 — 2018
Chicago
Internship designed to gain an overview of the Ocient database system. Projects were written with big data usages in mind, with heavy emphasis on the utilization of C++ and parallelization. Testing frameworks and constant code reviews were also heavily leveraged to continuously integrate clean and functional code.
General Overview:
• Designed a parallel correctness suite capable of sorting and comparing millions of rows in query result sets.
• Created automatic C++ generation system to test Ocient operators for arbitrary queries.
• Wrote scripts to automate process of updating various versions of golden result sets in a repository when queries are updated.
• Added full test coverage for Ocient ODBC driver connection.
2018 — 2018
2018 — 2018
Greater Chicago Area
Development Operations oriented internship emphasizing independent projects and creative freedom. Projects dealt with designing and implementing ways to visualize and monitor throughput within Xaptum datacenters, as well as calculating various statistics for Internet-of-Things devices across Xaptum network.
General Overview:
• Implemented a highly-available cluster of machines for secret storage, such as maintaining user access for various systems using Hashicorp’s Consul and Vault.
• Completed an ELK stack framework used to monitor Xaptum’s datacenters, keeping track of uptime statistics and connection throughput.
• Wrote a Slack bot for Xaptum employees to be notified if certain time series statistics for their datacenters reach critical thresholds.
2017 — 2017
2017 — 2017
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Led and worked on several internal projects. These projects were across multiple disciplines within the company, providing the opportunity to communicate technical subjects to those with diverse backgrounds.
General Overview:
• Designed relational database to organize information on available workflows.
• Created custom RESTful API for easier communication between front and back end code.
• Saved State Farm $388,000 in man hours through automating processes done in Windows System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012) with Powershell.
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor's degree
2015 — 2019
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Minor
2015 — 2019