Work

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Dec 2024 - Present

Software Engineer II @ Clearco

  • Improved user authentication flow by profiling and diagnosing inefficiencies, resulting in 70% faster login times.
  • Educated an engineering team of 30 on advanced LLM prompting and GitHub Copilot techniques to boost AI usage & team efficiency.
  • Spearheaded site-wide security enhancements by researching industry standards and implementing protective headers against cyberattacks.

May 2023 - Nov 2024

Software Developer @ Alethea Medical

  • Leveraged Google Cloud Functions and Firebase to calculate and store service times, presenting data with TypeScript/React to inform customer choices.
  • Hosted AI models on Google Cloud using Python/Flask to enhance user experience by enabling real-time form pre-filling using AI, while ensuring efficient horizontal scalability and cost-effectiveness for a rapidly growing userbase.
  • Led the migration of our database from Firebase to Typesense, significantly boosting search functionality with over 50% faster speeds and enhanced flexibility for complex queries.

Jan 2022 - Apr 2023

Software Engineer @ GA4GH

  • Migrated continuous integration tests for multiple Dockerized Java apps built with Gradle to GitHub Actions, achieving workflow run time reductions up to 98%.
  • Created a full-stack web app using TypeScript & Node to demonstrate genomic data sharing standards, showcased at the 2022 ISMB conference.
  • Developed Dockerized testing software using Python & Flask to validate compliance of cloud-based data sharing API implementations with established standards.

May - Aug 2021

Unity Developer @ University of Waterloo

  • Developed algorithms to pack irregularly shaped 3D objects efficiently in Unity's virtual environment, achieving up to 74% higher packing efficiency without compromising on runtime speed.
  • Built a Unity VR scene for importing, segmenting, and packing 3D objects, while ensuring a consistent high frame rate of 60 FPS under heavy workloads.

Sep - Dec 2020

Teaching Assistant @ University of Waterloo

  • Graded weekly assessments 4x faster than average while maintaining integrity and quality of feedback.

Education

Sep 2018 - May 2023

BSc Honours Biochemistry Co-op @ University of Waterloo

Biotechnology Specialization & Bioinformatics Option

3.7 GPA