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Master of Science in Computer Science

College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Bachelor of Science

College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Computer Science, Data Science

Software Development Engineer Intern

Amazon Web Services

• Engineered a challenge-response authentication system for secure serial access to Linux networking devices, implementing a Rust PAM module to validate cryptographically signed, user-specific credentials
• Built a Go-based signing service to authorize device access and issue signed credentials using a certificate chain, enabling offline credential validation and user-level auditing
• Developed a React Web Serial application with an integrated terminal to automate device authentication and credential exchange, simplifying secure access for data center operators

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

University of Minnesota, Department of Computer Science & Engineering

CSCI 5541: Natural Language Processing

• Supported instruction for a graduate-level NLP course covering word embeddings, transformers, and large language models
• Mentored students through semester-long projects involving dataset collection, annotation, model design, training, and evaluation methodologies
• Provided detailed grading and technical feedback on assignments and projects

Software Developer Intern

ImageTrend

• Designed and implemented a full-stack geocoding data visibility and control application with a Windows service API using C# and .NET Core
• Created an interface for managing geocoding data sources and viewing logs using React and Material UI
• Refactored legacy code to improve performance and integrate latest features
• Achieved 100% unit test coverage across backend and frontend components

Undergraduate Researcher

University of Minnesota, Knowledge Computing Lab

Mentor: JangHyeon Lee, Advisor: Yao-Yi Chiang

• Led development of SolarCLIP, a domain-adapted vision–language model for solar physics by selectively fine-tuning CLIP’s projection heads and targeted transformer layers
• Designed and ran a full machine learning experimentation pipeline including model training, evaluation tooling, data preprocessing, and embedding-space analysis

Sales Advisor

Best Buy

• Trained new employees on technical aspects of mobile device activations and setup
• Provided technical support for customers by using critical thinking skills to ease concerns
• Collaborated with team members to promote sales and productivity through organizing daily tasks and creative thinking

API Monitor

• Developed a distributed API monitoring platform with scheduled polling, NATS, PostgreSQL, and worker services to continuously track endpoint uptime, health, and latency
• Built a real-time dashboard with Google OAuth, configurable response schemas, and WebSockets to detect unreachable endpoints and breaking API changes, with public tracker discovery for shared monitoring

Truncate

• Built a full-stack URL shortener and analytics platform using React, TypeScript, Go (Fiber), and PostgreSQL
• Implemented detailed analytics, including redirect tracking, geolocation, device, and browser statistics
• Secured user data with JWT authentication and role-based access control

Improved Scoreboard

• Designed and developed a scalable, object oriented, and event driven Minecraft network packet-based scoreboard plugin compatible with multiple game versions
• Integrated with third-party applications through the creation of a portable scoreboard management API

Daily Rewards

• Developed and commercially launched a fully configurable daily rewards system for Garry's Mod, generating 100+ sales on Gmodstore
• Integrated MySQL and SQLite database support, with seamless interaction from a custom designed user interface using client-server communication through networking protocols

Member

University of Minnesota Robotics

• Contributed to the creation and design of an autonomous robot for the NASA Lunabotics competition using NVIDIA Isaac ROS libraries
• Collaborated with group members to develop and debug a heightmap conveyor belt detector and a visual based position estimator