Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Duke University — Durham, NC
GPA: 3.60
May 2017
Education
Experience
Bloomberg LP
Software Engineer — New York City
Jan 2020 –
Present
- Working on Bloomberg AIM, developing functionality related to post-trade order management.
- Improving continuous integration by introducing Jenkins to the projects and standardizing DevX tooling.
Software Engineer — Princeton, NJ
Jun 2017 –
Jan 2020
- Working on Bloomberg's Financial Entity Identifier (LEI) website, and a document annotation and extraction web application.
- Maintain my team's CI infrastructure using Chef, Jenkins, and help write pipelines that are portable with technologies like Docker.
- Created a schema-generated form written in React and Typescript.
- Working on scalability by introducing technologies like Redis to decentralize our backend applications and make more recilient to failure.
- Maintainer of a service that runs hundreds of logical validation on every submission and the reference data that feeds LEI's website.
- Redesigned the whole site to be more compliant with Bloomberg's look and feel, rewriting major portions of the website and better integrating it with the Bootstrap 4 framework for cleaner code.
- Interviewer for entry-level and intern positions.
Duke University
Research Assistant, Grill Lab — Durham, NC
Sep 2014 –
Present
- Wrote a user interface to run trials and control hardware in a deep brain stimulation clinical study
- Developed a circuit into PCB, modeling the housing, sourcing parts, assembling, and testing a control hub
- Presented work at the Duke NIH-IMSD Symposium 2015, 2016 and ABRCMS 2016
Teaching Assistant — Durham, NC
Aug 2014 –
May 2016
- Taught over a hundred students in two courses on MATLAB and mechatronics over four semesters
- Prepared and presented three short lectures linking course material to relevant uses
Research Assistant, Henriquez Lab — Durham, NC
Jan 2014 –
Aug 2014
- Analyzed large XML datasets with spatial information of players and ball of live basketball games
- Created a user interface to display and further analyze the datasets
Projects
React AVRO Form
Dec 2017 –
Dec 2019
- Wrote a form generated from an AVRO schema which can derive reference data through AJAX requests.
- Minimized the amount of requests derivation chaining need using graph union joins.
- Separated state management from UI to keep UI purely a function of state allowing for easy porting to other frameworks.
Data Importer - gleif.org
Oct 2017 –
Jan 2020
- Wrote a data parser that ingests 1.4 million records daily to power our site's search.
- Rewrote it 2 years later to tackle bottlenecks, reducing run time by 3x.
- Uses asynchronous python to speed up network use and multiprocessing for XML stream-parsing.
Annotation Remote Host
Jul 2019 –
Jan 2020
- Refactored remote control APIs into its own servlet.
- Created an isolation barrier between incoming commands and the websocket interface.
- Used Redis to increase horizontal scalability and reliability.
Web Frontend Guild — Inner Source
Jul 2019 –
Present
- Maintaining many inner sourced solutions including middleware clients, redis client, and other utilities.
- Increasing availability of TypeScript for better support across the company.
- Provide assistance with infracstructure and deployment issues web teams face.
IORedis — Open Source
May 2019 –
Jun 2019
- Contributed custom connector classes, which is used for async node resolution in cloud redis setups.
- Improved tooling for increased code quality and increased TypeScript coverage.
Web Portfolio and Resume Parser — Personal
May 2014 –
Present
- Implemented my own parser, which populates the website and creates this resume
Stimulating and Recording Relay Boxes — Grill Lab
Sep 2015 –
May 2017
- Combined digital channels into a single analog one, then built a circuit to control several TTL devices by separating the channels again
- Upgraded the components and allowed for expandability
Stimulation Interface — Grill Lab
Jan 2015 –
May 2017
- Written in Object-Oriented MATLAB to automate experiment runtime
- Allows for control of external hardware, including benchtop equipment
Portable EMG Sensor — Senior Capstone Design
Aug 2016 –
Dec 2016
- Designed and began manufacturing analog circuitry for a muscle biopotential amplifier
- Developed and automated electronic characteristics testing procedures
Hybrid Lift Drone
Aug 2015 –
Dec 2015
- Built a Hexacopter electrical autopiloted drone
- Future expansion to triple redundant quadcopter
- Assembeled the flight electronics of the drone
Integrated Design Challenge Robot — Fundamentals of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jan 2014 –
May 2014
- Programmed a robot to sense its environment and act as communication hub for team
- Wrote C++ communication and guidance libraries to ease implementation in other robots
Duke BMES Website
May 2015 –
May 2016
- Wrote a website as a learning experiment for web development
- Wrote plugin that pulls in facebook events, increasing the ease others can add content to the site
Skills
JavaScript
TypeScript
Python
C/C++
Shell
Java
MATLAB
HTML5/CSS3
AngularJS
Vue
React
Docker
MIPS
Altium
Autodesk Inventor
PSpice
Photoshop
Spanish
French
German