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Bachelor of Science

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Computer Science

• Distributed Systems
• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Introduction to Algorithms & Models of Computation
• Systems Programming
• Data Structures (Honors)
• Database Systems
• Numerical Methods

Exchange Program

Technische Universität Wien (Vienna University of Technology)

Informatik

• Introduction to Machine Learning
• Computer Vision

Exchange Program

Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

• German C1 (WU Language Resource Center)
• Austria and Europe: A Political, Economic, and Cultural History

Software Development Engineer I

Amazon Web Services

Team: AWS Bedrock AgentCore

• Root-caused a prod tm90 latency regression to a static global SDK rate limiter pacing all calls task-wide.
• Built an idempotent, resumable reconciliation sweep in Java re-driving events dropped between systems of record.
• Hardened it with per-event failure isolation, mid-run resume, and transient vs. permanent fault classification.
• Drove full three-tier metric coverage; derived alarm thresholds from empirical latency/fault distributions.
• Made batch jobs fail loudly on enqueue errors that previously reported success, eliminating silent data loss.

Software Development Engineer Intern

Amazon Web Services

Built scalable and efficient backend services for AWS Bedrock, focusing on large language model integrations and optimizations.

• Built a generic producer-consumer framework parallelizing Bedrock evaluation inference, cutting runtime 55%.
• Guaranteed ordered results under parallelism via CompletableFuture pipelines over a bounded thread-safe queue.
• Integrated adaptive concurrency control, to scale workers to per-model RPM/TPM limits with throttling backoff.
• Built custom runtime clients separating throttling retries from transient-error retries (full-jitter backoff).

Machine Learning Intern

Insort GmbH

Developed computer vision and machine learning solutions for quality control.

• Built a computer vision system for automated food quality control with 95% defect-detection accuracy.
• Architected the ML pipeline (CNNs, SVMs, transfer learning) in TensorFlow, boosting accuracy by 40%.
• Implemented SIFT-CNN in PyTorch, benchmarked against VGG16+SVM, cutting manual inspection time 75%.

Software Engineer Intern

University of Applied Sciences, Landshut

Built web applications with React and AWS for sensor data visualization.

• Boosted frost-prediction accuracy 20% by automating sensor-data updates via RESTful APIs (API Gateway).
• Built a React/TypeScript dashboard visualizing live sensor data & forecasts on AWS (S3, DynamoDB, Lambda).

Data Science Intern

AGCO Corp

Analyzed after-sales data and performing sentiment analysis.

• Cut cross-validation runtime 96.9% by optimizing time-series forecasting models (sktime) for machinery SKUs.
• Analyzed after-sales data in Databricks; ran NLTK sentiment analysis and topic extraction on customer feedback.

Independent Study

Secure & Transparent Systems Laboratory

• Built a provenance-graph tool for cybersecurity analysts to trace suspicious activity through system events.
• Employed Splunk for data hosting with React Flow and vis.js for interactive graph visualization.

Volunteer

Civic Engagement Committee - UIUC Honors Student Council

Lead organizer for the New York City branch of the People's Climate March, the largest climate march in history.

• Supported environmental sustainability by participating in six Illini Lights Out events, conserving around $700 worth of electricity by turning off lights in campus buildings.
• Organized the “Annual Season of Giving” community Christmas event at the Helping Our Youth Change Everyday (HOYCE) Center, Champaign IL in December 2023.
• Volunteered at the Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners sale in October 2023, contributing to the effort to supply incarcerated individuals with free books.
• Proudly represented the Campus Honors Program by overseeing a bookmark-making station at the UIUC Fall 2023 Queer Block Party in September 2023.

Chancellor's Scholar

Campus Honors Program

Approximately 600 undergraduate students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign participate in the Campus Honors Program (CHP). These students, designated Chancellor's Scholars, represent all colleges and a huge variety of disciplines on campus. They take several small, intensive, and collaborative courses in a wide range of fields. Chancellor's Scholars also participate in co-curricular experiences, including domestic or international travel courses as well as campus and community exploration. The CHP is for students who desire a broad and general as well as specialized education.

Edmund J. James Scholar

Grainger College of Engineering

Students who maintain a minimum GPA of 3.5 can self-nominate to be a James Scholar.

Edward Fichtner and Paula Sutter Fichtner Award

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (UIUC)

Competitive scholarship awarded to up to two students per year to participate in the Illinois in Vienna study abroad program.

Pauline Steiner Schwalbe Undergraduate Student Award

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (UIUC)

Awarded to an undergraduate student enrolled in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and studying abroad in a program recognized by the department.

Terry and Mary Claire Welch Award

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (UIUC)

Awarded to recognize Academic Achievement in German of an undergraduate student.

Market Data Capture & Compression Pipeline

C++17, libpcap, Zstandard

• Engineered a high-throughput capture pipeline for live IEX and NASDAQ market data feeds at 25K+ pkt/sec.
• Achieved up to 85% storage reduction via tuned Zstandard compression within a sub-256MB memory footprint.

Raft Consensus Implementation

Golang

• Implemented fault-tolerant leader election and log replication, handling node failures and concurrent ops.