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Taming complexity by chasing the 'aha' moments and finding patterns in chaos.

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  • Site Reliability Engineer · Charles Schwab

    Latest

    Jun 2024 — Present

    Delivering automation solutions for operational resilience, incident triage and management, and on-call production support for service availability and release stability

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant · Purdue Computer Science

    Aug 2023 — May 2024

    Developed a web platform to enhance student learning in undergraduate Computer Science courses using generative AI, while managing devops and database tasks for ~500 students and up to 50K daily operations

  • Software Development Intern · Charles Schwab

    Jun 2023 — Aug 2023

    Developed an automated testing framework, integrating it into the existing codebase to streamline end-to-end testing and system health checks, resulting in a 90% reduction in manual effort and enabling more proactive monitoring without extra resource allocation

  • Software Development Intern · First Merchants Bank

    Jun 2021 — Aug 2021

    Improved interdepartmental efficiency by designing and deploying a web-based drag-and-drop ticket routing solution using Vue.js, Laravel, and Vagrant, replacing an outdated desktop application

  • Bachelor of Arts in Political Science · Purdue University

    2020 — 2024

    Focused on Public Policy and Political Methodology, with a research interest in the intersection of technology, policy, and governance, particularly how emerging technologies influence global political economics, national security, and public policy decisions

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science · Purdue University

    2019 — 2024

    Focused on Security Design & Development, with a deep understanding of computer systems, networks, and cryptography, gained through coursework in computer security, programming, and operating systems

Where curiosity leads the way.

newton

Apr 2024

A CLI that creates your API documentation for you with AI

overeasy - minimalist workouts

Mar 2024

A minimalist strength tracking app for the casual gym goer focusing on 1RM gains

Pebble - Todos Demystified

Dec 2023

A minimalist todo calendar, designed for a clutter-free mindset through a weekly focus

Kamino One

Aug 2023

A human-friendly data dashboard to explore Kamino Finance - Solana's leading liquidity yield aggregator

BoilerTime

Apr 2023

BoilerTime is a data-driven schedule optimizer for Purdue University students

Maven

Apr 2023

Token-gated one-pagers in 5 minutes or less with Web 3's easiest plug-and-play forms and sites builder

gm/gn

Nov 2022

Inspired by Spotify Wrapped, an instantaneous way for Web 3 users to generate a shareable image of their cross-chain activity over the past year

wgmi.id

Feb 2022

Short for crypto-slang "we're going to make it", wgmi.id is an EVM-compatible tokenized identifier unifying your Web 2 and Web 3 social activity

Uptime is arguably optional, and logs tell no lies—except when they do.

DockerCompute
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OllamaCompute
AnsibleAutomation
PortainerAutomation
Home AssistantAutomation
OpenWrtNetworking
Pi-holeNetworking
TailscaleNetworking
RedisStorage
InfluxDBStorage
NextcloudStorage
LokiMonitoring
GrafanaMonitoring
AuthentikSecurity