Software Development Engineer Intern, May 2023 - August 2023
Sunnyvale, CA
Updated internal micro-services of the Alexa Music team to add functionality for Music Providers to
send background images to be presented on multimodal Alexa devices.
I created the needed code, tests, and delivered it into production where millions of customers could
experience the update.
Software Development Engineer Intern, May 2022 - August 2022
Sunnyvale, CA
I worked on the Amazon Prize Engineering team to provide metrics on the Alexa social bots. For my
project, I learned and used Amazon Managed Grafana, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, SQL,
and Python. I worked on Glue pipelines to process data to be used in metrics. I used SQL statements
to query data in Redshift and Athena in Grafana.
National Nominations Committee Member, April 2023 - December 2023
Region Q representative of the National Student Advisory Committee, May 2022 - December
2023
Vice President of Service, December 2021 - December 2022
Brother, Since November 2021
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
I have completed over 950+ hours of community service and started and participated in many projects
and initiatives to benefit the Troy community. Outside of special projects, I regularly volunteer at
local organizations for example the Regional Food Bank, Sanctuary for Independent Media, Frear Park,
and Capital Roots.
As a student advisor I met quarterly representing Region Q to provide feedback to the national
president and other national leadership.
As President, I worked to unify the Executive Committee and support all of our officers in
achieving their goals and propelling our chapter on campus and in the whole fraternity. We
successfully grew our programs and recived national awards
As Vice President of Service I worked to connect our brothers to the Troy community better and
increase their interest in service by offering more options for events that they are enthusiastic
about.
Software Engineer Intern, November 2020 - July 2021
San Francisco, CA
Photon Commerce is a Fintech startup that digitizes documents and connects all your financial
documents to allow for faster, more efficient, and less error-prone financial transactions.
Reported directly with the CEO and lead engineers on various products and projects.
Utilized Python and Regular Expression to map data from large blocks of text to structured data.
Co-Founder and Organizer, October 2017 - April 2021
San Francisco, CA
I joined Hack the Fog's founding team as a freshman in high school. Our team went on to host San
Francisco’s first all-inclusive high school hackathon. During my time on this team I learned
valuable knowledge that led me to co-lead 1 event and lead 1 event while also managing the
organization as Director.
The Japantown Youth Leaders is a youth leadership program run by the Japanese Community Youth
Council. As a leader, I volunteered throughout the school year at various events in Japantown and
the city.
I learned skills like leadership, time management, public speaking, and volunteerism through weekly
meetings. I used these skills to host service projects and take leadership roles within the group
Lowell Dev Club is a Hack Club at Lowell High School. I co-founded Dev Club to bring meaningful CS
experiences and lessons to fellow students. I also wanted to prepare and connect students to CS
experiences like Hackathons.
I used leadership skills that I had learned in JYL to lead this club and put in the time to manage
everything that was required to make sure the club ran smoothly.
Lowell Bytelab was a Hack Club at Lowell High School. Joining Bytelab sparked my interest in
programming and led me to push for leadership positions becoming secretary in my second year of
participating in the club.
The Chapter Distinguished Service Key Award is a chapter’s highest level of distinction. The award
is a black key that displays the Greek letters of the Fraternity in gold and is given in recognition
to brothers for outstanding service to their chapter. Distinguished service on a chapter level; that
is, making an outstanding and unique contribution to the chapter as a whole. Exemplifying and
furthering in demonstrable ways the principles of Leadership, Friendship, and Service. Making a
sustained contribution in a leadership role over a period of time.
In 1912, Edward Dion and the Student Council organized a society to recognize those Rensselaer
students who have distinguished themselves among their peers in the areas of leadership, service,
and devotion to the alma mater. This society, Phalanx, became the fellowship of those most active in
student activities.
Membership consists of outstanding undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of Computer
Science, Information Technology, and Computer Engineering. Members are chosen not only for their
scholastic achievement in a computing field, but also for distinguishing themselves as true
professionals by meeting the standards of the society. Members also provide a number of services to
the Rensselaer community through tutoring services and remediation sessions.
