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Contract Software EngineerFebruary 2026 – March 2026

Hit a perfect 100% lighthouse SEO score on zeroentropy.dev by migrating to static HTML generation using Astro and MDX-based blogs
Rebuilt the engineering blog on MDX with custom typed components, reducing posts to validated markdown files with auto-generated metadata

Contract Software EngineerJanuary 2025 – March 2025

Built dashboard.zeroentropy.dev in Typescript with a Python FastAPI backend, giving users a frontend interface to interact with the ZeroEntropy API
Integrated top-k semantic search across user document collections with debounced inputs, paginated ranked results, and graceful error handling, enabling users to query their data without direct API interaction

Software Engineer InternMay 2024 – August 2024

Identified 6 previously unknown GCP network anomalies by building a C++ telemetry validation pipeline for dozens of petabytes of data
Diagnosed a VPS outage blocking 50+ interns from their dev instances and routed them to a workaround, restoring their ability to work

Undergraduate Research AssistantOctober 2023 – January 2024

Initial developer on TITENN; validated an experimental ML-optimized network by building PoC firmware in C for ESP32 and PIC microcontrollers with BLE integration, validated by an AR simulation of military combat training

Software Engineer InternMay 2022 – August 2022

Added user permission roles to the access gateway of a pre-launch zero-trust platform, then fixed defects and refactored code across the gateway and broader product