Experience

Drawbridge

• United States
• Computer and Network Security
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Development Intern

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  I worked on a small team to support the migration of our code and DevOps to Azure DevOps. I refined the migration process for Node.js libraries and APIs, which included rethinking our secrets management, writing custom Azure Pipelines, setting up and configuring Node APIs for Docker, implementing custom npm scripts, and refining SQL scripts. As a part of our migration effort, I also created the infrastructure to automatically update NGINX configurations on several different servers through SSH on an Azure Pipeline. I created a standalone Razor Page web app in ASP.NET Core with a custom user interface that allows our sales team to select client data files, and then corroborates them to ultimately perform exact string matching and fuzzy searching and automatically update client data. I underwent the entire Software Development Life Cycle for this project, including creating the build and release pipelines and deploying it as a container app. It is an actively used product for our company's sales team. Show less



355Code

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Intern

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  I work on the marketing and instructing teams of 355Code, a coding lesson startup. On the marketing team, I work to develop strategies to promote the company and increase our user base, as well as to introduce new products. On the instructing team, I work with elementary school through high school-aged kids on JavaScript and Python curriculum. I work on the marketing and instructing teams of 355Code, a coding lesson startup. On the marketing team, I work to develop strategies to promote the company and increase our user base, as well as to introduce new products. On the instructing team, I work with elementary school through high school-aged kids on JavaScript and Python curriculum.



Drawbridge

• United States
• Computer and Network Security
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Back End Developer

  • May 2022 - Aug 2022

  I was tasked with the clean-sheet design task of implementing a bridge from Salesforce.com to an internal service fulfillment platform via two REST APIs. This was particularly challenging, as it was the organization's first SFDC integration, so I needed to research options and propose solutions for both application-level logic as well as platform improvements to support secrets management. I wrote new middleware logic to handle an API-KEY, and hosted the automation on Microsoft Azure. Additionally, I designed and added new tables to the database schema, as well as writing stored procedures, to support storage of the newly imported data. All code was comprehensively tested using Jest, Postman, and dotnet unit testing. The project was an on-time success. The primary implementation language was C# using .NET core for client and server API implementations, however I also used SQL, Python, and JavaScript. Show less



Town of Clifton Park

• Founder, Vice Chair

  • Apr 2021 - May 2022

  I was a founder and vice-chair of the Clifton Park Youth Advocacy Council (CPYAC), our town's first student-comprised town committee. I promoted and expanded this town committee, and as a group, we worked on many town initiatives, including a COVID volunteer thank-you event. Additionally, we hosted many community discussions between students, school administrators, community members, and town leaders on a number of local and national issues, including police brutality, racial bias, and our local policy on organized protests. Show less



New York Advocacy Conference

• Founder, Guest Speaker, Host

  • Mar 2021 - Nov 2021

  I was a student founder of the New York Advocacy Conference (NYAC), a statewide event where myself and leaders across the state, including NYS Deputy Secretary of Education Dan Fuller, spoke to FRC students about the importance of advocacy and what starting steps they could take. In particular, NYAC introduced and organized advocacy for Bill A1219 (nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2015/A1219), a grant funding bill for underprivileged FRC teams that I helped draft. Over the span of several months, I coordinated speakers and spaces for the event, promoted the event, and managed signups. NYAC was a hybrid event across New York State, that I hosted, and gave a talk at about starting steps to advocacy, where over 200 students and adults across the state gathered at select statewide locations to participate. Show less



Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Open Source Developer

  • Jul 2021 - Sep 2021

  I contributed as a full-stack developer for RPI's RCOS (Rensselaer Center for Open Source), working on their new website, Telescope. I utilized Hasura, Postgres and GraphQL to manage new users, projects, roles, and more information in an API, and Rust to develop a front-end search capability to filter, search, and display results based on these criteria, as well as based on different user roles and permissions. I ran everything through Docker containers. Additionally, I created documentation for the README file on how to install and run Telescope in order to contribute to the open-source software. Show less



The Summer Science Program

• United States
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Researcher

  • Jun 2021 - Jul 2021

  As a researcher at the Summer Science Program (SSP) Astronomy, I worked with two partners to study near-Earth asteroid HA22. We submitted several observing requests to access telescopes and observe our asteroid over the span of a month, processed the received data, and eventually utilized the progression of observations to determine the asteroid's orbital elements and other data. We wrote a final paper on our findings, which included the calculated orbital elements, test particle integration test fates, orbit projection/visualization in Python, orbital determination code in Python, and our methodology, namely Method of Gauss and Monte Carlo simulations. Finally, our data was submitted to the Harvard Minor Planet Center to help with their mission on tracking orbital objects to gain insight on potentially dangerous objects and to perform further research. Show less



Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Researcher

  • Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

  As a researcher for MIT's PiPACT program, I investigated the potential for Raspberry Pis to be used for contact tracing, particularly for COVID-19, through Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) RSSI values. I developed an experiment involving plotting and analyzing the correlation of RSSI values at differing proximities of the Raspberry Pi beacons to determine the efficacy of this more cost-effective solution, and wrote a final research paper detailing my findings. As a researcher for MIT's PiPACT program, I investigated the potential for Raspberry Pis to be used for contact tracing, particularly for COVID-19, through Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) RSSI values. I developed an experiment involving plotting and analyzing the correlation of RSSI values at differing proximities of the Raspberry Pi beacons to determine the efficacy of this more cost-effective solution, and wrote a final research paper detailing my findings.