Education

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Aug 2023 – May 2027

B.S. Computer Engineering · Champaign, IL

Data Structures, Numerical Methods, Computer Systems Engineering (OS), Analog Signal Processing, Interactive Computer Graphics, Linear Algebra, Database Systems, Digital Systems, Engineering Probability

Experience

Prolaio Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2026 – Present

Chicago, IL

  • Developed and maintained 15+ production software and data pipelines with Python, SQL, Dagster, Metaflow, and BigQuery, processing over 1M records
  • Debugged 20+ production failures and data-quality defects, improving Datadog alerting and workflow execution logic to cut recurring processing errors 35%
  • Collaborated with a 5-person engineering team to ship 10+ software assets in a GCP-based production environment

Myrakal Founder

Oct 2025 – Present

Chicago, IL

  • Architected an automated healthcare software platform (Python, FastAPI, React), reducing a multi-hour clinical workflow by ~80%
  • Designed and deployed a modular AWS backend across EC2, Cognito, and S3 for secure processing of healthcare data
  • Owned the end-to-end software development lifecycle from system architecture through integration and iterative validation

WaggleNet Software Engineer Intern

Sep 2024 – Sep 2025

Champaign, IL

  • Built a real-time C++ computer vision pipeline (OpenCV, LibTorch, TensorFlow) for bee detection and tracking, improving accuracy 45%
  • Reduced false-positive detections 30% through error analysis, threshold calibration, and temporal filtering on large-scale field data
  • Integrated embedded sensing hardware with real-time C++ inference workflows, increasing research reporting throughput 25%

Leadership & Projects

National Organization of Business & Engineering Jira, Confluence

Sep 2025 – Present
  • Led a 12-member consulting team for a drone-technology startup with 100% on-time execution
  • Performed market sizing and benchmarking across 20+ firms, identifying 3 market-entry opportunities projected to increase TAM capture 25%

MicroBlaze Embedded System C, Vivado, Vitis, FPGA

Spring 2026
  • Designed a MicroBlaze-based embedded system in C, integrating processor, memory, UART, and GPIO peripherals
  • Implemented memory-mapped I/O to control FPGA-connected peripherals through low-level device interfaces
  • Debugged and validated embedded software on target hardware across platform initialization, cache configuration, and serial communication

Custom Unix Operating System C, RISC-V, Assembly, QEMU, GDB

Oct – Dec 2025
  • Led a team of 3 building a modular Unix-like kernel with a VirtIO-based block device for persistent storage
  • Implemented virtual memory with Sv39 paging and preemptive multitasking for multi-process support
  • Integrated filesystem abstractions including file and device I/O, user-mode syscalls, process management, and piping

Technical Skills

Languages Python, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, RISC-V Assembly, SQL
Developer Tools Git, Docker, GDB, QEMU
Libraries Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, SymPy, Matplotlib, NLTK, BeautifulSoup, PyTorch, OpenCV