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Projects

Raft Distributed Consensus

November 2025

• Implemented the Raft consensus protocol in Go to coordinate multiple nodes with leader election, log replication, heartbeats, and term management
• Used Go concurrency (goroutines, channels, and mutexes) to safely coordinate node communication, handle parallel operations, and prevent data races
• Tested system correctness under leader changes, network partitions, and delayed or lost messages

Together Trip

December 2024

• Built and user-tested the app as part of a team of three using Swift and SwiftUI
• Integrated Firebase Firestore for real-time synchronization of itineraries, posts, and comments
• Developed MapKit-powered maps for location search and route visualization
• Enabled collaborative content creation and shared itineraries, enhancing group travel planning
• Wrote XCTest unit tests to ensure app functionality and reliability

AI Flashcard Application

August 2024

• Developed a responsive and user-friendly web app using Next.js and React
• Integrated OpenAI API to generate customized flashcards based on user input
• Implemented Firebase for data storage and real-time synchronization
• Added secure user authentication with Clerk
• Enabled subscription payments via Stripe to create a scalable, monetizable platform

Gotham City Police Department

May 2024

• Developed a web application for the fictional Gotham City Police Department using Ruby on Rails, React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Implemented user authentication and authorization with a back-end SQLite database for data management
• Wrote comprehensive unit and integration tests to ensure application reliability

First Sip Studios Website

July 2023

• Designed and built a responsive, user-friendly website for First Sip Studios, a Pittsburgh-based film studio, using WordPress
• Collaborated with the client to create wireframes in Figma and conducted user testing to refine the design
• Improved search engine optimization and increased web traffic through design and content strategy
• Created training materials and video tutorials to empower the client to manage and update their website

AWAP 2023: Mars Makeover

February 2023

• Collaborated with a team of three to win first place in the beginner bracket of CMU ACM's AWAP 2023 Hackathon
• Developed a bot for the game that strategically spawns explorers, miners, and terraformers
• Implemented a Breadth-First Search (BFS) algorithm for pathfinding across various maps
• Demonstrated effective teamwork and problem-solving under tight hackathon time constraints

Education

Activities & Awards

• Dean's List, High Honors x6
• CMU Association for Computing Machinery Hackathon Organizer, Member
• CMU Statistics/Data Science Department (SCORE Network) Project Assistant
• CMU CS Department (15-251: Great Theoretical Ideas in CS) Tutor
• Re:Bloom Volunteer Web Developer
• Headstarter AI Software Engineering Fellow
• Alphi Phi Omega National Service Fraternity Member

Coursework

Computer Science

• 15-122: Principles of Imperative Computation
• 15-150: Principles of Functional Programming
• 15-210: Parallel and Sequential Data Structures and Algorithm
• 15-213: Introduction to Computer Systems
• 15-251: Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Sicence
• 15-259: Probability for Computing
• 15-317: Constructive Logic
• 15-440: Distributed Systems
• 15-451: Algorithm Design and Analysis

Mathematics
• 21-127: Concepts of Mathematics
• 21-241: Matrices and Linear Transformations
• 21-259: Calculus in Three Dimensions
• 21-341: Linear Algebra
• 21-355: Real Analysis
• 21-373: Algebraic Structures
• 36-202: Methods for Statistics and Data Science

Software Development

• 05-318: Human-AI Interaction
• 05-391: Designing Human-Centered Software
• 67-262: Database Design and Development
• 67-272: Application Design and Development
• 67-443: Mobile Application Development

Experience

Work Experience

Technical Consultant at Majuro Stevedore and Terminal Company

May 2025 - August 2025

Web Developer Intern at Athlete Den

June 2024 - August 2024

Teaching Assistant at Principia Education

June 2024 - Present

Research Assistant at CMU Privacy Economics Experiments Lab

August 2023 - May 2024

Software Engineer Intern at TRACT

June 2023 - August 2023

Technical Skills

• Programming: Python, C, Golang, Swift, Ruby, HTML/CSS
• Frameworks & Libraries: Ruby on Rails, React, Next.js, Pandas, Scikit-learn
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase
• Tools: Git, Linux, Jira

Contact

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