Experience

Founders - Illinois Entrepreneurs

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President

  • Dec 2022 - Present

• Forge Startup Weekend Co-director

  • Feb 2022 - Feb 2023

• Research And Development Engineer

  • Sep 2021 - Dec 2022

  Champaign, Illinois, United States - Developed a feature using React that tracked the entrepreneurship resources utilized by registered startups and displayed the information on a startup’s page on the Founders Startup Directory web application. - Leading team of 5+ in backend development of an online co-founder match system to connect co-founders based on their preferences for skills and interests.



Visa

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer Intern

  • May 2023 - Aug 2023

  Austin, Texas, United States - Designed AI system using an LSTM model in Tensorflow to forecast client revenues and identify growth opportunities for Visa Business Data Platform (model accuracy of ~95%). - Utilized SQL on Hive/Db2 databases to extract valuable business insights from corporate transaction records, enabling data-driven decision making. - Delivered enriched data insights and market trend analysis to enhance product offerings for clients.



Disruption Lab at Gies

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

  - Implemented a test-net prototype of a double-DAO architecture in Ethereum that tokenizes natural resources. - Created smart contracts using Solidity that handle buying/selling of tokens between DAOs. - Designed trading mechanism—modeled off of a bonding curve—that dictates the ETF valuation of tokens whose profit margin benefits mining companies and local communities.



Cisco

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer Intern

  • May 2022 - Aug 2022

  Remote - Created a centralized, automated root cause analysis tool capable of efficiently diagnosing failures in a Cisco SaaS cloud platform—improving developers’ productivity by 20%. - Used Python to collect, normalize, and aggregate log data; Analyzed infrastructure services to identify anomalies in resource and microservice usage. - Built a unified dashboard using React and FastAPI to provide an interface for the root cause analysis tool.



Saint Francis High School

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Editor-In-Chief for The Lancer (school newspaper)

  • Apr 2020 - May 2021

  - Negotiated with high school to shift the newspaper from print to digital, led a team of 25+ to coordinate production remotely, developed a new website, and published The Lancer’s first online issue. - Orchestrated training of new editors, artists, and photographers through Adobe InDesign training sessions, and managed production of The Lancer’s Science and Technology pages for 10+ publications.

• Lancer Robotics and FIRST Robotics Competition Team Member

  • Aug 2018 - May 2021

  Coordinated the fabrication of the several components of the robot's chassis and performed electrical tasks such as assembling the electronics board of the robot.

• Programming Club Member

  • Aug 2017 - May 2021

  As a member of the Saint Francis Programming club, I have participated in a variety of programming-related events, from hackathons to coding competitions. I also assist in creating development workshops to teach fundamental concepts, such as algorithms, to novice coders.

• Public Forum Varsity Debater

  • Aug 2017 - May 2020

  I have participated in numerous debate tournaments since my first year of debate in 2017. I was the only sophomore who was a Varsity debater in their second year of debate. Currently, my duties as a Varsity debater include coaching novices to develop their debate skills with lessons and hands-on activities and providing constructive criticism to my peers when editing their debate cases.

• Science Section Editor for Newspaper

  • Aug 2018 - Apr 2020

  As a board member and science section editor of our school newspaper, I facilitated and oversaw the instruction for new members, instructing the tools necessary to create a polished newspaper issue. I administered the delegation of potential topics to write regarding artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics. I have also authored several articles to raise awareness of the many advantages AI and machine learning yield to society.



Cisco

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern

  • Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

  - Developed a software using Python for enterprises to minimize hardware resource pool consumption and save costs in their Cisco network switches.



Berkeley Business Academy for Youth

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Operating Officer in Berkeley Business Academy for Youth VERSE Business

  • Jul 2019 - Aug 2019

  I was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at VERSE. I primarily managed and organized all operational aspects of the company, optimized the company’s operating capabilities to meet customer expectations, and coordinated with the CEO to make business projections. I created our company's business plan and business presentation to showcase to potential investors at the Berkeley Business Academy for Youth.