Carnegie Mellon University Department of Information Systems

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Position: Head Teaching Assistant
Course: 67-250 The Information Systems Milieux
January 2019 - May 2021

Description:
As a TA for 67-250, I performed a multitude of tasks. First, I graded many freshman IS students' homework assignments and projects, such as a Case Analysis project, Web Development project, and a Database project. Secondly, I held office hours for said projects and assisted the students with any questions they had. Finally, I helped out the professors with in-class labs and sat on an IS student informational panel. As a Head TA in my last semester, I further assisted the professors with course management and administrative responsibilities.

Position: Head Teaching Assistant
Course: 67-272 Application Design and Development
January 2020 - May 2021

Description:
As a TA for 67-272, I had two main responsibilities. First, I ran a 2 hour instructional lab once a week that focuses on teaching students Ruby on Rails as well as general software development concepts. During the lab, I answered any and all student questions from their work. My other responsibility was grading student project phases and exams, using my current knowledge of the aforementioned concepts. As a Head TA, I led the grading sessions for the projects/exams and met with students for regrades.

Likewise, Inc.

June 2019 - August 2019

Bellevue, Washington

Position: Technology Intern

Description:
Likewise is an up-and-coming startup that creates a platform to receive and get recommendations for many different types of content, whether it be Movies, Books, or even Restaurants. I worked on the Machine Learning/Data Science Team for the duration of my internship.

My time at Likewise can really be seen in two different parts. First, I created a RESTful API that has different ETL processes tied to each different endpoint, which would gather new data for different mediums when called. The second part of my internship dealt with our main ML service that was being deployed. I wrote backend components to handle the I/O for the service to/from the front-end. Additionally, I created nightly batch processes that updated our MongoDB database with fresh data that worked in tandem with the REST API.

Along the way, I learned new skills such as TypeScript and Express.js in a fast-paced environment, and got exposed to how development is done in the industry.

Tools I Used:

1. Node.js
2. TypeScript
3. Express.js
4. MongoDB
5. Python

Adagio Health

Feburary 2020 - August 2020

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Remote

Position: Software Development Consultant

Description:
Adagio Health is a non-profit organization in Pittsburgh, PA that provides health services to those in need, particulary underinsured and uninsured women as well as their families. I was a part of a three-person team that worked to build them a new information management system for their Cancer Screening Program.

This project started off as a CMU Information Systems Consulting course, where teams were paired up with a Pittsburgh non-profit to understand and address their technology needs. Even after the semester ended, Adagio retained our team to continue working on the project over the summer. The final system enabled Adagio Health to effectively and simply manage the information related to their Cancer Screening program. They could also integrate it with data from the Pennsylvania state database, something their previous system could not do. In addition to the system, our team built custom scripts to migrate their data from the old system format to the new one. Finally, we created extensive documentation so that Adagio Health's IT department can manage the system by themselves in the future, rather than be tied to an outside contractor.

Between working on the project in the college course and professional settings, I learned .NET Core from scratch, as well as experienced how consulting and contract-based work is done in the industry.

Tools I Used:

1. C#
2. .NET Core
3. Python
4. Microsoft SQL Server
5. Microsoft Azure

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

June 2020 - August 2020

Remote

Position: Software Development Engineer Intern

Description:
Although remote, my time at AWS was extremely transformative. I was able to work in an exciting part of the organization dealing with enterprise application migration and modernization. The meat of my internship was building support for AWS Firelens usage within the AWS App2Container tool. This project enabled the effective preservation of logs for java-based applications that were modernized using App2Container.

Throughout the internship, I learned Golang at a rapid pace, and was also exposed to container technologies and a plethora of AWS services.

Tools I Used:

1. Golang
2. Docker
3. AWS Elastic Container Service
4. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud
5. AWS CloudFormation