Experience

University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Philadelphia, PA

M.S.E. in Computer and Information Science; Concentration in Artificial Intelligence (Candidate) — Expected May 2027

B.S.E. in Computer and Information Science, Cum Laude; Minor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics — May 2026

Coursework: Probability, Algorithms, Computability & Complexity, Applied Optimization (SAT solving, linear and mixed-integer programming, constraint programming), Computer Organization & Design, Computer Architecture (including GPU architecture), Operating Systems Design & Implementation, Distributed Systems, Databases, Linear Algebra, Machine Learning, Interactive Computer Graphics, Design of Mechatronic Systems, and Thermal-Fluids Engineering. In progress (Fall 2026): Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Machine Learning, and Big Data Analytics. Planned (Spring 2027): Compilers.

Connectify, Inc.

Software Engineer Intern — June 2026 – August 2026

• Led SRT streaming-protocol stress testing with one other intern and a full-time engineer on the company's OpenWRT router hardware, ahead of a customer-facing release on a compressed deadline. Profiling packet buffers and header-processing paths got the protocol to ~0% packet loss and low latency at high throughput.
• Developed and released an internal fork of ModemManager in C (GLib, D-Bus) that handles modem signals in an event-driven way and talks directly to the modem device, bypassing a high-complexity intermediary system. It improved IPC between the modem stack, the VPN daemon, and the rest of the system, and resolved the packet-loss and latency issues found in stress testing. The fork runs in user space, but building it took a working understanding of the kernel-level modem infrastructure beneath it.

Connectify, Inc.

Software Engineer Intern — June 2025 – August 2025

• Assessed and implemented FinOps infrastructure improvements (server rightsizing), generating $12,000 in realized annual savings
• Modified OpenWRT firmware for the company's router hardware: added a VPN application across the LAN, and built a lightweight hardware-monitoring and anomaly-detection daemon in C that used ~0.05% of a CPU core, kept lean on purpose since it runs constantly on the router, with a web interface for OpenWRT LuCI.
• Prototyped an AI anomaly-detection system for network attacks using a lightweight autoencoder architecture, achieving 98% accuracy for real-time CPU inference on a Miri X510 router under simulated attack load, within its compute and memory budget

University of Pennsylvania, Data Center Research Group

Research Assistant — January 2025 – December 2025

• Analyzed data center cooling techniques against power and water consumption, combining computer science and mechanical-engineering training to model cooling requirements across climates and resource constraints
• In the study's feasibility phase, modeled weather predictions with WeatherNext alongside another undergraduate and reviewed the literature on data center and processor cooling

The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc.

Innovation Lab Project Manager (Part-time) — September 2024 – June 2025

• Project manager and programmer on a team of 6 programmers building Pennlets, a subletter-to-subletee matching app for the Penn community, from ideation through implementation and maintenance. The app was prototyped and user-tested but not launched.
• Set up the client/server separation and Docker build, and wrote the backend's authentication (Passport, Google OAuth 2.0, sessions), Supabase database layer, and data routes in Node.js/Express, with a React (Vite, Tailwind) frontend.
• Worked in constant communication with the marketing and business representatives, including on the app's business plan and mission statement.

CoPact

Business Strategy and Technology Analyst (Part-time, Remote) — February 2025 – June 2025

• Ran cold outreach, including multiple one-on-one customer meetings, for a pre-revenue startup building a platform that matches businesses with vetted service partners and tracks each partnership's impact.
• Edited and managed the company's podcast and ran its social media.

Connectify, Inc.

Full-Stack Intern — May 2022 – June 2022

• Redesigned backend invoicing system using the Factory Method pattern to unify sales-data collection across multiple vendor APIs; deployed company-wide
• Maintained customer-facing invoice portal (Bootstrap, Figma), mapped and implemented new secure API routes in Express, and wrote unit tests and documentation to company standards

Languages

Kernels & Parallelism

Profiling & Debugging

Systems, Low-Level & Hardware

Optimization

AI / ML

Web & Backend

Infrastructure & Tools