experience & work
I occasionally do things, usually with computers and education. Here are the big ones.
SWE Intern at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (2022)
beep bop booped in the Education Initiative; did some Slack automation, some Rails, some large-scale Ruby + Sorbet codegen & upgrading, and some open-source maintenance; wrote about an open-source contribution on CZI's Medium.
SWE Intern at Facebook (2021)
Worked to unify four different Hack-based data sources into one unified UI. Juggled React, GraphQL/Relay, and Hack/PHP work - all at Facebook scale!
SRE Intern at Adobe (2021)
In a team of 3, I built a system to save money running Kubernetes clusters; the projection for our MVP was $330k/year!
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The big focus of my role was implementing a cluster autoremediation system, to find issues in Kubernetes clusters and try to automatically resolve them. Our initial focus was on more graceful autoscaling (and scale-down). I:
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implemented the aforementioned auto-remediation system to resolve Kubernetes cluster resource issues (JavaScript, AWS: Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, PromQL, Azure DevOps
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system projected to save $330k/year across 30 AWS clusters; easily extendable to Azure + plug-and-play with other remediation
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ran a variety of manual cluster scaling experiments and collected + presented data (Kubernetes, Splunk, Grafana, PromQL)
SDE Intern at Amazon Web Services (2020)
I was the sole intern in charge of my project for the S3 Index Engine team: a system to enable anomaly detection for thousands of internal metrics.
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While I can't tell you everything I did at AWS, here's a general overview of what my role was:
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wrote overall design document, performed user research, and presented top-level design + financials to team
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implemented automated data pipeline to ingest, filter, and upload 10k metrics/5 min (Java, AWS: SNS, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, CloudFormation)
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performed user research, designed & developed multi-paged dashboard + wizard + webservice (React, Java)
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presented final solution to management and team
SWE Intern at Booz Allen Hamilton (2019)
As a Summer Games 2019 Intern, I was part of a team of five interns that developed a pocket-sized embedded system to combat human trafficking by hacking into boats! We apparently did well enough to staff a maritime security-focused hackathon.
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As the sole software developer of the team, I performed several key responsibilities:
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Reverse-engineered closed-source NMEA 2000 protocol by analyzing network traffic
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Parsed & decoded data live ship data from sensors to CLI & over-the-air server (C)
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Fabricated data to disable devices and spoof GPS, navigation, AIS, autopilot (C)
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Developed GUI to control embedded system over TCP (React, Electron)
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Presented solution to senior leadership at McLean headquarters
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Supported at Hack the Machine, 700+ participant hackathon on maritime security
SWE Intern at AudioNotch (2017)
AudioNotch is a web and mobile app that's designed to help people who suffer from tinnitus through experimental audio therapy. I put my hand in a lot of different baskets, mainly focusing on creating a new mobile app and updating their web application.
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I juggled several different roles as the sole intern:
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Developed mobile app for iOS & Android with Ionic + Angular + Cordova stack (authentication flow, audio manipulation w/ DSP, data visualization, in-app purchases)
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Implemented server-side REST API and data protocol for mobile app logic (Django)
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Refactored JS web application, halving bundle size (JS WebAudio API, jQuery)
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Redesigned website & blog to be mobile-responsive and ARIA-compliant (CSS, PHP)
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Ran A/B tests on landing page designs and CTAs (Google Analytics Experiments)
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Revamped products increased firm revenue by over 300% in the next three months
President at
ACM at UCLA
(2021-2022)
I ran the largest tech organization on campus, with 250+ officers and 1500+ event attendees. It's hard to describe my role; I juggled a safe return-to-campus, EDI advocacy work, some web dev, some event planning, helped my officers grow, and tried my hand at making the tech community as inclusive and accessible as possible.
Eventually, I might write about this experience.
President, Lead Dev at ACM Teach LA (2018-2021)
ACM Teach LA
is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit at UCLA that aims to provide equitable access to K-12 computer science education in Los Angeles. I've worn a lot of hats at the club, from software developer, to curriculum development and instructor, to leading a dev team, and most recently, the president of the club. It's the thing I'm the most proud of at UCLA.
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I got started in 2018 as a web developer for Teach LA, and promptly fell in love. I last served as the president of the club (2020-2021), which let me handle a broad scope of activities:
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handled transition to fully virtual learning: organizing synchronous and asynchronous classes, one-off events, meetings, and recruitment
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spearheaded learning labs, an internally-developed set of interactive web modules; acted as a PM, lead dev, and supporting dev for different projects
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continued to (asynchronously) teach our AI & ML course at North Hollywood HS
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kickstarted a new React Native web and mobile app development course
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expanded internal and external transparency through public financial & EDI reports and open-sourcing our curriculum
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supported and managed our 15-person board and our 50+ members
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acted as the interim dev team director for Fall & Winter 2020 (see below)
Prior to that, I was the dev team director in 2019-2020, which was a great opportunity to grow our team. Here's what I did:
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managed, trained, and led code review with a team of 15+ student developers, the majority of which were new to web development
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kickstarted work on interactive web modules to teach cybersecurity, networking and machine learning concepts; eventually became learning labs
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architected and developed React + Redux frontend for online Code IDE
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wrote middleware to handle user data actions with React, Express, Firebase
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developed static site to enhance org's online presence with Jekyll
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wrote and updated tests written with Enzyme + Jest
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integrated CI/CD into our development workflow (GitHub Actions, Travis CI)
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taught our brand-new AI & ML course at North Hollywood HS
smaller experiences & work
click for my small stuff. but only if you want to!
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I was recently the inaugural Outreach Chair for NeurIPS 2022, along with Jessica Forde. We bootstrapped an outreach program from scratch that brought 200 students to the conference.
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I helped out with QWER Hacks, America's first collegiate LGTBTQIA+ hackathon. In 2021, I led workshops on React, Firestore, and the education track. In 2020, I led workshops on web development (with React + Firebase) and EdTech. I passed on the torch of leading workshops in 2022, but still am involved!
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I advised and volunteered for BEAM, a science outreach club at UCLA. I help with site visits, curriculum planning, and have written lesson plans for coding in Scratch and programming robots. I also set up their website!
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Before COVID, I was a UCLA MakerSpace technician, teaching classes on 3D printing, laser cutting, t-shirt fabrication, graphic design, and electronics.
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Over Summer 2020, I taught a 15-hour virtual crash course on web development with my good friend Leo. Check out the notes on GitHub!
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Won IDEA Hacks 2019 with pop 'n lock, a student-card enabled smart lock. Proved that student cards were duplicatable in the process.
Code on GitHub!
If you want to see contributions I make to open-source, fragments of software projects, or just how addicted I am to GitHub, you can check out
my GitHub profile.
