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Amazon Web Services

May 2025 - Present Software Development Engineer Intern AI/ML Bellevue, WA

I am currently a Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon Web Services, contributing to the SageMaker Unified Studio platform. I work on the infrastructure team responsible for the notebook service that powers SageMaker Studio—an integrated, web-based environment for building, training, and deploying machine learning models. My project focuses on enhancing observability by exporting resource usage metrics from Studio apps to customers' CloudWatch accounts, helping them monitor, debug, and optimize their ML workflows more effectively.

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Common Crawl Corpus Research

September 2024 - May 2025 Student Researcher Urbana, IL

I worked with Professor Jonathan Dunn as an undergraduate researcher developing a more equitable geographically distributed language corpus using Common Crawl data. I programed in Python to optimize and develop a pipeline to generate a high-quality global language corpus based on web-crawl data. The process uses Natural Language Processing and linguistic approaches to filter and manipulate extensive corpus data.

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CyberGIS Center

January 2023 - January 2025 Software Developer Urbana, IL

I programed in python to create Jupyter Notebook interfaces that allow non-technical geographers to use high-performance computing (HPC) clusters and developed backend communication software for the lab to connect to HPCs. I also created open-source documentation for the lab's CyberGISX software used for geographic computation locally and for the API which allows users to connect to university supercomputers.

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Phillips 66

May 2024 - August 2024 Cloud Innovation Intern Houston, TX

As an intern in cloud computing at Phillips 66, I had the opportunity to work with and update 27 standard Terraform modules for cloud deployment on AWS and Microsoft Azure. I used Azure Pipelines to automate testing for the modules to ensure they were up to date and working properly. I also worked on a team to create a demo application using cloud quantum computing as a proof of concept for future projects.

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University of Illinois - Housing

August 2022 - May 2024 Network Technician Urbana, IL

I provided customer service and tech support for thousands of residents in ten residence halls, including regular maintenance of computer labs and responding to after-hours calls by email, phone, and in-person visits daily. I utilized network management software to remotely monitor and respond to issues with printers, servers, and ethernet connections.

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U.S. Department of State

June 2023 - July 2023 Information and Resource Management Intern New Delhi, India

In my role, I designed web software to assist offices across the diplomatic mission in properly maintaining, destroying, and archiving sensitive and classified government records and created a 30-page report describing best practices to keep records compliant with U.S. law and department policies.

July 2022 - August 2022 General Services Office Intern New Delhi, India

I organized and processed sensitive data for over 600 embassy properties across several databases and spreadsheets. I also coordinated with the purchasing office and contractors for cleaning and maintenance services and I filmed and edited virtual tours of neighborhoods and apartments for incoming residents.

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