experience
where i've worked and studied.
work
- 2026-05 – 2026-09
Backend Software Engineer Intern @ Mastercardmade kafka and nats cluster failures testable in CI, before they reach production- Automated resilience validation for multi-AZ Kafka, NATS and JetStream clusters (Python pytest-bdd, Ansible, Jenkins): broker failure, zone partition, leader election and recovery.
- Built Spring Boot health-contributor, fan-out supplier and Redis-backed ack-tracker components, so ack/nack paths can be verified deterministically over HTTP.
- Replaced JAR-deployment fixtures with role-based service discovery and manifest validation: 18+ PRs that made deployment and multi-broker regressions detectable in CI.
- 2025-09 – 2025-12
Software Engineer Intern @ Aquatic Informatics (Veralto)ended customer-reported timeouts and surfaced production crashes that failed silently- Optimized Hibernate persistence logic to cut record-update latency, eliminating customer-reported timeouts; added integration, performance and end-to-end Spring tests.
- Designed AWS CloudFormation + Container Insights monitoring for container shutdown thresholds, surfacing crashes that previously had no alerting.
- Wrote missing serializer modules and patched security vulnerabilities in the Java SDK, restoring enterprise client compatibility; introduced CI/CD in TeamCity, cutting release time by 40%.
- 2025-05 – 2025-09
Software Developer @ Emerging Media Lab, UBCshipped an open-source AR game in a team of 4 and halved demo prep time- Built LoveLoop, an open-source AR game (Unreal Engine 5, C++), in an Agile team of 4 using Perforce.
- Led AWS S3 storage and documentation of legacy tools, cutting demo preparation time by 50% and ending redundant redevelopment.
- 2024-09 – 2025-05
Infrastructure & DevOps Intern @ Optum (UnitedHealth Group)halved build-access latency by automating package publishing- Automated NuGet publishing to JFrog with regex validation, automatic error recovery and reusable Bash/Jenkins scripts, improving build-access latency by 50%.
- Engineered a .NET installer (C#, WiX) that automates dependency harvesting and testing on GCP, removing configuration drift between environments.
education
- 2022-09 – 2027-05
- Dean’s Scholar, GPA 4.00/4.33. Expected graduation May 2027.
- Lead Teaching Assistant for CPSC 320, Intermediate Algorithm Development and Analysis.
- Coursework: distributed systems, networking, operating systems, databases.