University of Michigan
The Home Depot
Designed and built core backend microservices in Java and Spring Boot for a production semantic search platform handling 400k+ daily searches, enabling structured filtering from free-text queries using vector embeddings and approximate nearest-neighbor search (Vertex AI)
Architected the customer-feedback component of the AI-assisted Search platform, using React, GraphQL, and a BigQuery analytics pipeline to refine the semantic search model and improve recommendation relevance
Identified and resolved a critical production React incident in the primary search path, coordinating a live hotfix and preventing an estimated $1M/week in lost revenue
Directed GM experience releases as release captain, hosting cross-team code reviews, coordinating deployments via Github Actions and Spinnaker, and training engineers during a platform ownership transition with 0 rollbacks
Caterpillar Inc.
Spearheaded eCommerce initiatives by developing React landing pages, CMS driven banner components, and REST API integrations supporting 160+ CAT dealer sites on a high-availability, SLA-backed global commerce platform
Led monthly production release validation and deployments in AWS, ensuring zero-downtime rollouts and contributing to a major platform migration recategorizing 1.4M+ SKUs for improved navigation and SEO
Designed and launched a scalable dealer onboarding platform using HCL Commerce, providing a self-service workflow for new dealers, training 80+ users and reducing ongoing support load by 30%
Introduced a standardized test automation framework using Cucumber and JUnit across 5 QA teams, writing step definitions and glue code to integrate Spring services, test fixtures, and CI pipelines, increasing automated coverage and reducing regression failures by 25%
Modernized legacy Java services and PostgreSQL schemas, implementing stream-level data sanitization and validation securing telemetry for 4M+ connected assets
Automated integration and end-to-end test pipelines using Cypress and Azure CI/CD, significantly reducing manual QA and accelerating release cycles
Built real-time CloudWatch observability dashboards for ingestion pipelines, cutting incident response time by 25%
Juni Learning
Instructed 10 students online in high school through college level courses in C++, Python, Java, and Javscript
Created custom coding exercises and interactive debugging tools to address individual students' needs