May 2024 – Feb 2025 · 9 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States

• I work on the Substrate platform, supporting File APIs across Office 365 products, with a focus on SharePoint and OneDrive

Mar 2022 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States

• Led a team of Software Engineers to deliver key features on products saving over 100 hours per week for customers and improving customer satisfaction.
• Acted as a key technical point of contact, interfacing with stakeholders, product managers, and cross-functional teams to gather requirements and align project objectives.
• Introduced policies that reduced infrastructure cloud spending costs by over 60%.
• Re-architected and led the implementation of existing Software solutions improving efficiency by 0ver 50% and removing redundancy.
• Proactively identified strategic areas of opportunity and high business impact for team and product improvements.
• Mentored junior team members, conducting technical workshops and knowledge-sharing sessions, leading to team skill development and career advancement.

Jun 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States

• Designed and implemented firewall policy automation systems saving network engineers approximately 1 hour per network policy (a total of 40 hours per week) and eliminating human error.
• Designed and implemented a secure network portal used by network engineers to deploy configurations to network devices. This portal added an extra layer of security to the network infrastructure.
• Implemented systems monitoring for network components reducing downtime and service level agreement time.
• Migrated deployment patterns for existing legacy systems to use modern deployment practices.
• Integrated logging, storage, and end-to-end testing for several software components, increasing service resilience.

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Candoor helps Black, Latinx, Indigenous and other underserved college students & professionals (“Advisees”) book free 1-on-1 conversations with professionals working in their dream jobs (“Advisors”). Our mission is to empower the next generation of diverse business leaders by democratizing access to transformative careers.
• Designed and developed the initial product prototype, serving as the foundation for the company's offerings and securing early-stage funding.
• Let rapid iterations and agile development cycles, iterating the product based on user feedback, leading to a 70% increase in user retention.
• Oversaw the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from ideation to execution, ensuring on-time delivery and maintaining high-quality standards.
• Guided the development and implementation of robust security measures, safeguarding sensitive user data and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.

Jun 2019 – Apr 2020 · 10 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Implemented architectural changes to a Java application.
• Collaborated with the Cloud OPS team to integrate AWS components to the Java application.
• Migrated the application deployment pattern to a container-based deployment working with the SRE Team.
• Integrated analytics monitoring on the AWS components and the Java application.

Sep 2018 – May 2019 · 8 mos

• Modified C/C++ scripts to filter and analyze large sets of data.
• Created C/C++ scripts to detect acoustic waves signatures based on frequency.

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Milwaukee, Wisconsin Area

• Developed setup wizards’ software on industrial drives.
• Migrated data from setup wizards to physical drives as setup parameters.
• Visualized data from drives to interface module for easy comprehension and understanding
• Created a MEAN application used to keep track of availability of over 60 industrial drives and controllers used by engineers for testing purposes.

Sep 2017 – Apr 2018 · 7 mos

• I redesigned department’s web pages using Bootstrap making it dynamic and responsive. I also reorganized contents of the old websites for easy accessibility.

Aug 2017 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Oversee accommodation arrangement for 56 students and culture a stable living environment.
• Develop educational and community-building programs for student wellness and development.
• Participate in leadership conferences, crisis management training, and employee development.

May 2017 – Aug 2017 · 3 mos

• Designed a user interface to enhance user-experience for a web based teaching application – PEWI.
• Developed a "first-person" camera feature using three.js to make the application engaging.
• Presented PEWI at conferences and taught teachers how they can use the application in their classes.
• Collaborated with a team of developers to deploy a new version of PEWI.

Jan 2017 – May 2017 · 4 mos

• Instructed group tutoring sessions for Principles of Materials Science Engineering for 5 students
• Developed action plans based on students’ academic goals leading to the success of 4 out of 5 students.
• Fostered a fun learning environment which encouraged questions and discussions for all students.

Jun 2016 – May 2017 · 11 mos

• Part of a team that lead orientation for over 500 international students.
• Taught weekly recitation classes consisting of 15-20 students.
• Worked with fellow coordinators and evaluated homework based on an established rubric.