Shopstr | Co-founder & CEO | Apr 2024 - Present | 🌎 (Remote)

• - Building a truly free market

Salesforce | Software Engineer Associate Member of Technical Staff | Aug 2023 - Apr 2024 | Bellevue, Washington, United States

• - Streamlined the pipeline for data associated with internal and external tenant jobs using Python and SQL in an agile scrum environment
• - Worked with Tableau to create visualizations, find discrepancies, and deliver reports across teams on cost and usage data
• - Handled the weekly release process for an internal VSCode and IntelliJ plugin using Beyond Compare, Salesforce org testing environments, Gradle, and Jenkins
• - Used TypeScript to update the plugin to more properly record telemetry, require internal SSO, and improve functionality

Amazon | Software Development Engineer I | Jan 2024 - Mar 2024 | Bellevue, Washington, United States

• - Focused on migrating AWS Lambda functions used in tracking validation from a beta AWS environment through a proper review process
• - Updated available shipping nodes for retailers

Commenda | Software Development Engineer Intern | Aug 2022 - Apr 2023 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Remote)

• - Contributed to building a web-based software suite to make it easier for international startups to manage legal and financial requirements as their companies grow
• - Used Next.js and Prisma to develop a full-stack application that streamlines the process for startups to get from product conception to fundraising
• - Focused on a cap table management application to make it easier for founders and investors to handle exits and vesting of shares
• - Leveraged the Liquid Network to test out private asset digitization and issuance with Node.js

Salesforce (Tableau) | Tableau Software Engineer Intern | May 2022 - Aug 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States

• - Developed nickname feature to simplify the displaying and sorting of nodes in Tableau Services Manager (TSM) in an agile kanban environment
• - Wrote design documentation considering data flow from the user to a Zookeeper backend, edge cases, and several implementation possibilities
• - Created administrator commands using Spring Boot to manage nicknames and allow for their execution using the TSM command-line interface
• - Updated TSM Web UI utilizing React to allow for nickname management within a browser
• - Applied JUnit Testing to validate the output and execution of the CLI commands
• - Proposed feature additions to implement in future releases

iCode School Franchise | Technical Instructor | Oct 2021 - Apr 2022 | Wylie, Texas, United States

• - Taught students programming fundamentals in Python
• - Managed an orderly classroom of 10 students
• - Provided feedback to parents about class material and student development
• - Encouraged collaboration and creativity to stimulate learning

JPMorgan Chase & Co. | Software Engineer Intern | Jun 2021 - Aug 2021 | Plano, Texas, United States (Remote)

• - Worked in an agile scrum environment to develop and migrate full stack web applications to an internal cloud server called Gaia
• - Created and exposed REST API endpoints using Spring Boot to connect an Angular frontend with a MS SQL Server backend
• - Collaborated on producing a UI to validate Excel data and convert it to JSON objects in order to post it to a database
• - Designed a UI to download data from a database by exporting it as a CSV file
• - Implemented JUnit Testing to optimize the functionality of various functions and methods

Domino's | Delivery Expert | Mar 2021 - May 2021 | Richardson, Texas, United States

• - Delivered products by car and to the door of customers
• - Prepared orders in a timely manner
• - Provided excellent customer service as the last impression for customers

Dallas County Elections Department | Poll Worker | Nov 2020 | Richardson, Texas, United States

• - Responsible for greeting and assisting each voter as they came into the polling place
• - Verified the eligibility of potential voters
• - Assisted the Election Judge on all Election Day duties as assigned

Whataburger | Team Member | Jul 2020 | Friendswood, Texas, United States

• - Responsible for fulfilling Whataburger’s customer service commitment to excellence
• - Ensured each customer enjoyed a hot, freshly-prepared product, of the highest quality ingredients
• - Served customers in a comfortable, clean, and friendly environment

The University of Texas at Dallas | B.S., Computer Engineering | Aug 2019 - May 2023

- Graduated with a cumulative GPA of 3.473 on a 4 PT scale

Activities and Societies: Kappa Sigma Nu-Omicron Chapter, Student Chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Blockchain and Cryptographic Systems Organization

Stanford Summer Session | Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

- Attended the Stanford High School Summer Session and took two classes in Computer and Data Science

Friendswood High School | Distinguished High School Diploma | Aug 2015 - May 2019

- Graduated in the top 3.6% of my class (18/500) with a cumulative unweighted GPA of 4.0000 on a 4 PT scale and a cumulative weighted GPA of 101.1379 on a 100 PT scale

Activities and Societies: Varsity Cross Country, Junior Varsity Track & Field, Math & Science Organization, Recycling Club, Computer Science Club, Stock Market Club, UIL Science, UIL Mathematics, UIL Computer Science, National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta

Shopstr | Apr 2023 - Present

• - Building a decentralized marketplace utilizing the Nostr protocol with Bitcoin as the native payment rail
• - Developing an API and UI with TypeScript and React that interacts with Nostr relays to handle account management and note propagation
• - Working with Cashu and the Lightning Network to facilitate instant, anonymized cross-border payments
• - Designing a native wallet to simplify payment UX

Network Down-Converter Plug | Aug 2022 - May 2023

• - Designed a plug for Juniper Networks to allow for the transmission of high volume test data to network switches for analysis
• - Proof of concept estimated to reduce cost of currently implemented solution from $10k to around $700

Bitcoin Implementation | Aug 2022 - May 2023

• - Built a mainnet and testnet implementation of Bitcoin using Python
• - Wrote several class definitions and methods to initiate transactions, check block validity, and implement opcodes

Palendar | Oct 2021 - Dec 2021

• - Planned the implementation and feature set of a calendar sharing software following real-world software development processes
• - Designed the class diagram showing how each class involved in the system relates to each other and the variables and methods used within them
• - Estimated the cost associated with the development process based on hardware, software, travel, training, and effort requirements
• - Determined the pricing model for the software based on cost and effort estimations with the goal of maximizing competitiveness in the market and profitability

Code for Good Hackathon | Sep 2020

• - Tasked with developing a financial literacy web application for the nonprofit MyPath in under twenty-four hours
• - TypeScript was used for API and backend implementation while React was used for frontend implementation of the navbar and various pages
• - Articles page implemented button components for quizzes as well as card components that, when clicked, hyperlink to external articles and original posts from MyPath leaders
• - Made use of shadows, borders, and images to add more contrast and give the site a crisper look

Traffic Light Control System | Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

• - Developed a functioning and accurately timed four-way traffic light control system
• - Built the system with resistors of different values and external buttons to act as pressure plates to simulate a large amount of traffic to activate an infrared LED
• - Implemented infrared LED and infrared photo-diode to act as flow of traffic and activate on button press to trigger an LED light change
• - Programmed through the Energia programming software and TI LaunchPad to signal when lights should change between red, green, and yellow and to set pressure plate activations

Kappa Sigma Fraternity | Donation Collector | Sep 2019

• - Helped to raise over $6,000 for the Kappa Sigma Military Heroes Campaign
• - Talked to students and faculty members of the University of Texas at Dallas about the goal and mission of the campaign
• - Helped to collect over 200 canned goods for the NTX Food Drive
• - Helped to collect and donate over 6,000 pieces of clothing to the Goodwill

Mu Alpha Theta | Tutor | Aug 2017 - May 2019

• - Helped kids struggling with math at my local junior high and elementary schools
• - Drove down to the schools at the designated times set aside for tutoring
• - Would lead kids through various exercises and card games that helped them focus on their multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction skills

City of Friendswood | Community Volunteer | Aug 2017

• - Helped to organize people to help clean up houses that were affected by Hurricane Harvey
• - Went door to door seeing if homeowners needed help picking up trash and cleaning
• - Supplied homeowners with a truck to help dispose of waste

Houston Food Bank | Meal Server | Aug 2015

• - Prepared, served, and packed food for those in need
• - Helped leaders talk to people arriving at the food bank to make them feel more comfortable