Resume
Experience
Download ResumeSoftware Engineering Intern
Apple Inc.
May 2025 – August 2025
Cupertino, CA
- Led pre-submission testing for the Books/Notes iOS26 redesign, including seed and Root build sign-offs.
- Filed 28 critical P1 bugs; in the first two months ranked second of eight FTE engineers.
- Prototyped an AI-driven pipeline to automatically verify bug fixes on-device via Radar and GitHub integrations.
- Created documentation covering 30+ Book Store elements, streamlining bug reporting and testing.
- Onboarded a new hire and wrote tailored documentation based on my own onboarding.
Research Assistant — AI & Computer Vision
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
June 2024 – August 2024
Champaign, IL
- Synthesized human hand-object interaction datasets under Professor Saurabh Gupta, specializing in computer vision, robotics, and machine learning.
- Adapted transformer-based algorithms for 3D hand reconstruction.
- Designed and ran experiments to analyze poses, applying statistical methods for distance mapping.
- Integrated accelerometer and gyroscope data to capture degrees of freedom, segmenting hand features from images to train robotic policies.
- Presented findings at the UIUC Research Symposium; research contributed to a paper accepted to CVPR 2025.
Software Engineering Intern
U.S. Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory
May 2023 – August 2023
Lemont, IL
- Built interactive Svelte front-end for electric vehicle charging calculator metrics based on an API call for AFLEET carbon emissions web app. Used Git to contribute code and fix bugs.
- Analyzed SQL database and wrote queries to construct electrical-rate tables.
- Optimized the model with advanced data validation, EV-charging algorithm, and data visualization.
- Identified and reported a critical flaw to the United States Utility Rate Database team.
Software Engineering & Finance Intern
LanzaJet Inc.
June 2022 – September 2024
Deerfield, IL
- Built Python tool to generate jet-fuel and commodity-market statistics with Matplotlib, sourcing data from XML-based SOAP API, JSON-based REST API, and web scraping via Beautiful Soup.
- Automated extraction of commodity metadata for financial modeling; serialized parameters to JSON and crafted a Python pipeline to retrieve them and analyze data with Pandas.
- Led cross-functional team to design and build refinery Sample Lab Test Inventory system in MS Power Apps; secure forms feed Dataverse database, which drives AVEVA PI Vision dashboards or exports to Excel.
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Computer Science
Champaign, IL
Undergraduate
2024 - 2026
Attending the UIUC Grainger College of Engineering for Computer Science. GPA 3.96
Oakton College
Computer Science
Des Plaines, IL
Undergraduate
2022 - 2024
Achieved a 4.0 GPA while at Oakton College taking engineering and computer science classes.
Awards & Achievements
UIUC Honors & Leadership
Academic & Research Recognition
- AI Research Presenter (2024) – Presented Computer Vision project at Illinois Summer Research Symposium (ISRS)
Tau Beta Pi – UIUC Engineering Honor Society
- Member (2024–2026) – National engineering honor society
- Committee Lead – Pi Mile Run 5K (2025) – Organized 50+ runner charity race, led 20-person team
- Outstanding Member Award (2025) – Recognized for exceptional leadership and initiative ($500 award)
Academic Achievement
- Dean’s List (2024–2025) – Top 20% of engineering class
Scholarships & Academic Awards
- Engineering Visionary Scholarship (2025–2026) – Merit award supporting outstanding Illinois engineers and future innovators
- NVIDIA - John Nickolls Memorial Scholarship (2025–2026) – Pioneer of GPU computing and inventor of CUDA, awarded to top UIUC computer science students.
- Ruth and Harold Hayward Scholarship (2025–2026) – Merit award for academic excellence and community impact
- Academic Merit Scholarship – UIUC (2024–2026) – Competitive scholarship awarded to top students in engineering
- Full Academic Merit Scholarship – Oakton College (2022–2024) – Covered full tuition based on GPA and leadership
Early Recognition
- President’s Scholar (2022–2024) – 4-time recipient; top honors student at Oakton College
- Congressman Brad Schneider STEM Scholar (2019–2020) – Selected for prestigious program recognizing top STEM students in Illinois’ 10th District
Professional Skills
Data Visualization
Database Management
Web Development
Automation Pipelines
Advanced Excel Dev
Git
Languages & Technologies
Python
ML Libraries
C++
SQL
Java
Swift