Experience

Climate Modeling Alliance (CliMA)

• United States
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Software Engineer

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  Developed software (Julia) for CliMA’s global climate model in a team of 200+ climate scientists as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow at Caltech • Revitalized a Julia package (SurfaceFluxes.jl) for computing atmospheric surface fluxes of wind and heat • Implemented comprehensive test suites to ensure equation convergence, type stability, and edge case coverage, ensuring robustness and scalability of package • Extended package’s API by integrating support for new equations (stability functions) derived from recent scientific literature and parametric machine learning • Assessed relative computational performance and sensitivity of an atmospheric circulation model to Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory stability functions with reanalysis/observational data Show less



The Earthineering Company

• United States
• Research Services

• Software Engineer Intern

  • Feb 2023 - Jun 2023

  Developed software (Python) for LumaViewPro, an open-source microscope control interface • Resolved software-hardware communication issues, meeting tight deadlines within a deliverable-oriented WBS • Performed extensive crash testing to identify and resolve software vulnerabilities, prioritizing rapid bug fixes to maintain software stability and client satisfaction • Constructed unit and integration tests to verify feature functionality Developed software (Python) for LumaViewPro, an open-source microscope control interface • Resolved software-hardware communication issues, meeting tight deadlines within a deliverable-oriented WBS • Performed extensive crash testing to identify and resolve software vulnerabilities, prioritizing rapid bug fixes to maintain software stability and client satisfaction • Constructed unit and integration tests to verify feature functionality



Caltech

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Developer for Spacecraft Robotics Project

  • Aug 2022 - Sep 2022

  Developed Controller Software (C++) for Project LATTICE (Lunar Architecture for Tree Traversal in-service-of Cable Exploration), a Winning Submission to NASA Big Idea 2022 Challenge• Collaborated in a tiger team to construct a demo of the Moon’s first scalable robotic infrastructure under an aggressive timeline• Programmed the LATTICE rover’s mechanisms, feedback systems, and movement in a close knit team of three• Bridged communication between a small team of software developers and a team of 60+ hardware engineersSupervised by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists and engineers: Dr. Soon-Jo Chung (Caltech ARCL), Dr. Charles Elachi (Fmr. JPL Director), Dr. Issa Nesnas (JPL Principal Technologist), Dr. Steve Wall (JPL Principal Engineer / Team X Founder). Show less

• Student Researcher in Autonomous Robotics

  • Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  Developed Safety Validation Software (Python) with Duckietown, a Mini Self-Driving Car Platform• Implemented ROS-Based software for unit safety validation tests• Scripted ROS-topic publishers/subscribers in Linux to receive pose coordinates from a motion capture system (Optitrack)• Utilized YOLOv5 deep-learning algorithm in PyTorch to train an object detection model capable of recognizing road safety hazards• Integrated object detection model and collision-checking into higher-level planning algorithm using Duckietown’s API• Wired and troubleshooted autonomous robots to demo the ROS-based model Show less



Vista Biologicals Corporation

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Biotechnology Quality Control Intern

  • Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

  Extracted and Interpreted Data for In-Process and Final Drug Products • Analyzed and filtered chromatographic peak-integration data in Microsoft Excel • Prepared Capillary Gel-Electrophoresis Microplates and Buffer Solutions for High-Performance Liquid Chromatography • Calibrated common biopharmaceutical laboratory equipment such as HPLC, UV/Vis Spectrophotometer, centrifuge, and pH/conductivity meter • Maintained documentation in adherence to 100+ cGMP/company-specific SOPs Extracted and Interpreted Data for In-Process and Final Drug Products • Analyzed and filtered chromatographic peak-integration data in Microsoft Excel • Prepared Capillary Gel-Electrophoresis Microplates and Buffer Solutions for High-Performance Liquid Chromatography • Calibrated common biopharmaceutical laboratory equipment such as HPLC, UV/Vis Spectrophotometer, centrifuge, and pH/conductivity meter • Maintained documentation in adherence to 100+ cGMP/company-specific SOPs