Experience

Software Engineering Intern
Deloitte
June 2025 - August 2025, Dallas TX 📍
- Spearheading the design and development of a C#-based proof-of-concept to migrate a core internal tax platform (used by 10K+ accountants across 600+ enterprise clients) from RabbitMQ to Azure Service Bus.
- Independently analyzing microservice architecture and source code to uncover message handling inefficiencies, such as retries, queue buildup, and database-induced latency.
- Driving modernization of a mission-critical platform supporting billion-dollar operations by aligning asynchronous communication patterns with Azure-native messaging best practices.

Software Research Intern - Embedded Systems
JLab Sensing
June 2023 - September 2023, Santa Cruz CA 📍
- Developed a power-efficient data pipeline in C/C++ for a greenhouse temperature monitoring system, optimizing embedded system performance across multiple sensor protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, ModBus).
- Reduced system power consumption by 90% through architectural refactoring and low-level optimizations, with findings presented to the principal investigator and research team.
- Architected a scalable, high-reliability communication framework that significantly improved data throughput and transmission stability in constrained hardware environments.

Engineering Course Staff & Lab Instructor
UCSC, Baskin School of Engineering
January 2023 - June 2024, Santa Cruz CA 📍
- Guided and tested over 800 students in Logic Design, Assembly, and Sensing Technology for course checkoffs.
- Assisted students with Structural Verilog, RISC-V, hardware interfacing, and scripting in Python and C.