Sep 2023 – Dec 2023 · 3 mos · Remote · Remote

• Data Platform Connectors team 📊
• Worked on Splunk’s distributed data receiver management system supporting the ingestion of 200+TB data per day
• Designed and implemented distributed metrics collection in Golang to gather data from thousands of OTel collectors
• Created 30+ Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts to monitor the performance and state of the system

May 2023 – Aug 2023 · 3 mos · San Mateo, California, United States · On-site

• Sensors team 📸️
• Led the development of the enhanced alert project, which lets users interactively investigate people detected by integrating Verkada sensors with computer vision; successfully delivered this feature to 20k users
• Built complex frontend features using React, Redux, and Typescript, enabling users to interact with sensor charts, camera videos, and hyperzooms of detected individuals
• Developed endpoints in Golang to support batch commissioning and site assignments for Verkada gateway devices

Jan 2023 – May 2023 · 4 mos · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• User-level threading
• Supervised by professor Martin Karsten, working on the libfibre project: https://git.uwaterloo.ca/mkarsten/libfibre

May 2022 – Aug 2022 · 3 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

• Core Performance team 📈
• Contributed to various projects to improve the page load speed of the Asana app
• Reduced the initial load time of the Asana app by 900ms by implementing service worker caching in TypeScript
• Led a project to predict and preload the code chunks users will need in the future to speed up future navigations
• Improved the performance alarm framework (Python) by simplifying how alarms are set up and reducing noise

May 2021 – Aug 2021 · 3 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

• Marketplace & Logistics Framework team 🛒
• Designed and built microservices in Golang to synchronize data between Square and Wish, allowing thousands of Square merchants to sell products on Wish marketplace
• Utilized Kafka for communication between microservices and MongoDB for storing synchronization states
• Enhanced the robustness of the integration pipeline by implementing a non-blocking retry mechanism using goroutines to automatically resend failed requests for merchants in parallel
• Received the highest internship performance rating

Apr 2021 – Oct 2021 · 6 mos · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Organizer
• Organized the world’s largest student-run hackathon with 3000+ hackers attending from 30+ countries
• Developed GraphQL endpoints with TypeScript and Express for the sponsorship dashboard, hackers team formation tool, and attendee dashboard used by 50+ sponsors and 2000+ attendees
• Collaborated with other teams to gather requirements and designed the end‑to‑end flow; planned timeline to ensure timely delivery of projects
• Refactored PostgreSQL table schemas and the existing code to reduce table joins and simplify the data retrieval process for frontend

Sep 2020 – Dec 2020 · 3 mos · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Architected and implemented Python data ETL pipelines on Microsoft Azure to migrate over 10 million rows of claim data from 30+ Mainframe tables to Oracle database
• Performed complex data transformations across disparate data sources using PySpark and SQL
• Improved the efficiency of existing data pipelines through data caching, broadcasting, optimizing queries and transformation processes, resulting in 20% reduction in data processing time

Jan 2020 – Apr 2020 · 3 mos · Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

• Took initiative to tackle complex timing issues in framework and reduced the total test execution time by 30% by designing a new timing mechanism in Python to eliminate explicit waits in all test cases
• Strengthened the Selenium-based automation framework by creating utility methods, improving infrastructure and developing test cases
• Automated the process of producing test cases failure sheets and defects reports using JavaScript and deployed the program on GCP

Sep 2019 – Dec 2019 · 3 mos · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Collaborated with other students in the design team to engineer airlock for Mars colony.
• Researched pressure and temperature sensors used in the airlock. Connected sensors to Arduino and conducted testing.