Professional Experience - Complete Details
Software Engineer Intern at NVIDIA
Period: May 2026 - August 2026
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Description: Building shared simulator infrastructure for NVIDIA systems-software teams, replacing dedicated development hardware with reusable, autoscaled GPU-system simulators.
Responsibilities
- Built a distributed pool of reusable GPU-system simulators for NVIDIA systems-software teams, replacing dedicated development hardware with shared infrastructure and reducing reserved inventory and cost.
- Designed **5 Kubernetes CRDs/controllers** to autoscale simulators, cutting machine access time from **2.5+ hours** to seconds.
- Engineered a **12-stage** simulator lifecycle to keep reservations available, and recovered unhealthy pods gracefully in the background.
- Enabled **5 projects** across NVIDIA systems software, including firmware, control plane, observability, and agentic development.
- Bundled a **Prometheus/Loki/Alloy/Grafana** stack with **7-day logs** and **15-second metrics** for real-time observability.
Technologies & Skills
- Kubernetes
- Controllers
- CRDs
- Prometheus
- Loki
- Alloy
- Grafana
- Distributed Systems
- GPU Infrastructure
- Systems Software
Dev Lead, Former President at Knight Hacks
Period: February 2024 - Present
Location: Orlando, FL
Description: Knight Hacks is UCF's software development and organization, and the place I conquered impostor syndrome as a developer. Now I take it upon myself as President to empower our members with the same confidence and make sure that our organization continues to operate smoothly, spreading our mission of fostering a community of aspiring developers.
Responsibilities
- Revamped organizational web infrastructure, migrating from a single server to a distributed system of micro services increasing application availability by **67%**.
- Led a team of **12** software engineers to complete biweekly development sprints across various features.
- Orchestrated a CI/CD pipeline for core services hosted on **Microsoft Azure** ensuring a positive developer experience and application availability.
- Maintained a large mono-repository with **6** applications and **4** services through enforcing code-quality best practices.
- Managed a non-profit organization with **800+** members, **1,500+** hackers, and **$75,000** dollars in yearly revenue focused on creating confident, capable, and passionate developers.
- Organized the Knight Hacks VIII Hackathon for over **1700+** registrants and **1,024** attendees, with a total of **189** projects submitted.
- Organized the Knight Hacks VII Hackathon for over **1200+** registrants and **547** attendees, with a total of **94** projects submitted.
- Lead a team of **45** students to achieve deliverables such as **60** technical workshops a year and **100+** member mentorship.
- Revamped the mentorship program, expanding the number of participants by **58%** compared to previous school year.
- Personally secured nearly **$35,000** for the organization by networking with numerous **Fortune 500** companies over 2 years.
Technologies & Skills
- Leadership
- Event Planning
- Team Management
- Fundraising
- Community Building
- Public Speaking
- Project Management
- Mentorship
Software Engineer Intern at NVIDIA
Period: May 2025 - August 2025
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Description: Contributing to the autonomous hardware recovery team (formerly Shoreline.io) for NVIDIA Mission Control, the software layer for AI factories. Working on log analysis pipelines and real-time monitoring systems.
Responsibilities
- Contributed to the autonomous hardware recovery team for [NVIDIA Mission Control](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/mission-control-software/), the software layer for AI factories.
- Overhauled **Kubernetes / Helm** infrastructure to achieve zero-downtime rolling upgrades, fully eliminating **10 hours** of scheduled maintenance per year per customer and accelerating development environment build times by **93%**.
- Implemented industry standard horizontal scaling techniques to core services, increasing traffic bandwidth.
- Optimized network flow by modifying **NGINX** ingress patterns and service-to-service communication, reducing latency.
- Developed a log analysis tool that automatically identifies and filters noisy logs, reducing time-to-debug of core services.
- Leveraged fine-tuned Llama models to generate **semantic embeddings** for clustering and identifying noisy log patterns.
- Engineered a daily **CRON** service to generate noisy log reports and grep pattern files, streamlining daily debugging tasks.
- Integrated with real-time **Loki** logs from **Grafana**, and automatically published log anomalies to **Confluence** and **Slack** for immediate developer visibility.
Technologies & Skills
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- NGINX
- Python
- Machine Learning
- Llama Models
- Loki
- Grafana
- Confluence
- Slack
- AI Infrastructure
Campus Expert at GitHub
Period: May 2025 - Present
Location: Orlando, FL
Description: As a GitHub for the University of Central Florida, I will be interfacing with the GitHub education team to help bring software development resources to my local community, Knight Hacks. I am super excited to help others pave their paths and find their voices in tech.
Responsibilities
- Serve as an advocate for technologists and developers at the University of Central Florida.
- Plan events on-campus to help make software development accessible to the early-technologist community.
- Interface with GitHub Education as a Campus Expert to help bring resources and information to my local campus community.
Technologies & Skills
- Community Building
- Event Planning
- GitHub
- Education
- Public Speaking
- Networking
- Student Advocacy
Software Engineer Intern at Pheratech Systems
Period: December 2024 - April 2025
Location: Orlando, FL
Description: Researched Embodied General Intelligence and Sociobehavioral Robots for crisis and natural disaster search and rescue. Worked on computer vision and inventory management systems.
Responsibilities
- Researched Embodied General Intelligence and Sociobehavioral Robots for crisis and natural disaster search and rescue.
- Rearchitected public facing company website, increasing SEO visibility by **10x**.
- Developed an internal inventory management system, reducing unnecessary wasteful restock purchases by **40%**.
- Trained custom **YOLOv8** object detection models with a resulting **97%** accuracy in recognizing target objects.
- Aided in securing pre-seed funding by contributing to multiple high-impact technical projects across the company.
Technologies & Skills
- Python
- Computer Vision
- YOLOv8
- Machine Learning
- Robotics
- AI Research
- Inventory Management
- Embedded Systems
Founding Engineer at DormDevs LLC.
Period: April 2024 - January 2025
Location: Orlando, FL
Description: As a co-founder of DormDevs, I strive to create high-quality website solutions for businesses packaged with analytics and SEO optimization. Furthermore, we serve as a platform for aspiring student developers to gain real-world experience in web development through shadowing and coop opportunities
Responsibilities
- Empowered businesses with powerful insights and uplifted students with contracted work opportunities.
- Developed a business facing dashboard with real time analytics, billing, and a ticketing system for routine maintenance.
- Hosted and deployed open source analytics, authentication, and database on a Linux VPS.
- Managed a team of contracted freelance developers sourced from local colleges and universities.
- Partenered with businesses of various sizes throughout Florida to provide web development services.
Technologies & Skills
- Web Development
- Analytics
- SEO
- Linux VPS
- Team Management
- Business Development
- Client Relations
- Freelance Management
Undergraduate Researcher at UCF Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory
Period: March 2024 - August 2024
Location: Orlando, FL
Description: Working in the Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory at UCF, my research focuses on the development of algorithms for the analysis of complex biological data with a focus on RNA-sequencing, Alternative Splicing Detection, and gene quantification.
Responsibilities
- Reduced the runtime of the AS-Quant and APA-Scan laboratory pipelines by **75%** by leveraging concurrency and parallelism in Python
- Assisted in data collection, sanitization, and transformation using numpy and pandas.
- Researched Machine Learning solutions for cancer detection with processed RNA-Seq data.
Technologies & Skills
- Python
- Bioinformatics
- RNA-Sequencing
- Machine Learning
- Data Analysis
- Numpy
- Pandas
- Research
Honors Team Leader at UCF Burnett Honors College
Period: July 2024 - December 2024
Location: Orlando, FL
Description: Honors Symposium is a core component of the Honors Curriculum at UCF, where incoming students learn what it means to be apart of the Honors community. I served as a mentor and instructor to 16 students, helping them navigate their first year at UCF, and created an environment where they could feel welcome and make friends.
Responsibilities
- Led a **15** student breakout room during the Honors Symposium, facilitating discussions and answering questions.
- Planned monthly social events for all Symposium students to help them make friends and feel welcome at UCF.
- Performed administrative tasks for the breakout room like creating and grading assignments
Technologies & Skills
- Leadership
- Mentorship
- Event Planning
- Student Development
- Administration
- Public Speaking
- Community Building
Honors Orientation Ambassador at UCF Burnett Honors College
Period: May 2024 - July 2024
Location: Orlando, FL
Description: As an Honors Orientation Ambassador, I was responsible for advising incoming Honors Computer Science students during registration. Meeting with my students over the course of a month, I gave professional assistance with registering for classes, and provided guidance on how to navigate computer science at UCF.
Responsibilities
- Served as an academic advisor of **20** Computer Science students for course registration at UCF.
- Worked our in-person orientation sessions, where students were introduced to the Honors College.
- Provided a friendly face and positive attitude to help incoming students feel welcome at the Burnett Honors College.
Technologies & Skills
- Academic Advising
- Student Support
- Course Registration
- Orientation
- Computer Science
- Communication
- Mentorship
