Systems Design Engineering student at the University of Waterloo. I have
completed 4/5 years at this program and 5/6 internship placements. Currently looking for my sixth and final co-op placement
for the Summer of 2020.
Undergraduate degree
Internships completed
Percent body mass in pasta
Work Experience
PREVIOUS CO-OPS
BACKEND ENGINEERING INTERN
PLANGRID, AN AUTODESK COMPANY
SEPTEMBER 2019 - PRESENT
Owned and led the API design, development, and data migrations of the newest feature of PlanGrid’s Tasks
product - a flexible issue tracker with offline sync capability.
Transitioned monolithic backend to a microservice architecture with more comprehensive logging, robust schema
validation with Marshmallow, and Redis in-memory caching. Response times were reduced by 100-150ms.
Transitioned existing REST APIs to GraphQL using Apollo Federation. This helped to reduce average feature
development time by several days.
BACKEND DEVELOPER INTERN
TUNNELBEAR INC (ACQUIRED BY MCAFEE)
JANUARY 2019 - MAY 2019
Shipped scalable, high-throughput APIs of customer-facing VPN application in adherence with rigorous privacy
and security benchmarks, and with load demands of 60k+ requests per minute.
Re-factored TunnelBear’s backend to be Functional and asynchronous using Play Framework’s and Scala’s
concepts of Actions, Async, and Futures. Response times of the new services decreased by up to 15%.
Leveraged Redis and JWT to implement OAuth 2.0 industry standard client-server authentication.
DATA ENGINEERING INTERN
TUNNELBEAR INC (ACQUIRED BY MCAFEE)
MAY 2018 - SEPTEMBER 2018
Wrote, deployed, and owned internal, fault-tolerant ETL pipelines that delivered performance metrics and mar-
keting insight. Additionally, analyzed and presented this data to different teams.
Reduced runtime of pipelines by up to 45 minutes through table redesign, indexing, and SQL optimizations.
Aggregated, processed and stored large-scale data from relational and NoSQL databases using Apache Airflow,
Apache Spark, and AWS tools such as S3, SQS, Dynamo, and Redshift.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER INTERN
FINASTRA
SEPTEMBER 2017 - DECEMBER 2017
.NET developer of CollateralGuard RC which served loan information to tens of thousands of clients in real-time.
Created internal server diagnostics tool using WCF which logged system metrics and sent alerts to DevOps.
QA AUTOMATION ENGINEERING INTERN
CLIMAX MEDIA
JANUARY 2017 - APRIL 2017
Developed and shipped internal QA portal application using NodeJS and React. Wrote automated testing
pipelines using WebDriverIO, Selenium, Mocha, Javascript.
Education
ACADEMIC EXCHANGE
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE - SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
JAN - APRIL 2020
CANDIDATE FOR BACHELOR OF APPLIED SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO - SYSTEMS DESIGN ENGINEERING
