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Taming complexity by chasing the 'aha' moments and finding patterns in chaos.
My favorite work is where creativity meets logic, piecing together solutions with intuition and a bit of cleverness.
Associate Cloud Engineer Certified
Site Reliability Engineer · Charles Schwab
LatestJun 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and deploying a web-based drag-and-drop ticket routing solution using Vue.js, Laravel, and Vagrant, replacing an outdated desktop application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.
More recent personal, academic, and hackathon projects that lie at the intersection of innovation, rapid iteration, and full-stack development—some of which have been pushed beyond the localhost, presented in competitive and professional settings, and earned recognition.
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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.
A weekend sysadmin to these apps and services, thanks to r/homelab and r/selfhosted—because if it breaks, there’s no help desk but me.
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