I am a software developer with experience in full stack web development and cloud services. Currently, I work at Nuclearn.ai (nuclear power startup) as a full stack engineer. Previously, I graduated from UIUC with a Masters in Computer Science, and obtained my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Bellevue College.
When I'm not sitting at the computer, you can find me solving Rubik's Cubes of various sizes, practicing a difficult piano piece, doing 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles with my sister, or taking long walks around my neighborhood.
Activities: CS 411 Database Project Team Lead
Relevant classes: User-Interface Design, Databases, Advanced Data Management, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, ML + Data Systems
Activities: CS Student Advisory Board Treasurer
Relevant classes: Data Structures, Algorithms, Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Computer Architecture, Internet of Things, Computer Networks, Linear Algebra, Senior Capstone I, II, III, Discrete Math, Calculus III
Activities: Speech and Debate Club Member, Sophomore English Tutor
Relevant classes: AP Computer Science A,, AP Statistics,, AP Physics C: Mechanics,, AP Chemistry,, AP United States History, AP Calculus AB
Nuclearn
12/2024 - present • Phoenix, Arizona, United States (Remote)
• Working with React on the frontend and PostgreSQL, Docker, and FastAPI / SQLAlchemy on the backend
PolicyEngine
03/2024 - present • Issaquah, Washington, United States (Remote)
• Worked with 3 contributors on PolicyEngine’s web app project on GitHub (over 600 visits monthly).
• Assisted in migrating the front end component library to the newest version of Ant Design. Streamlined 150 Jest unit tests by refactoring 5 metadata API calls to occur in the beginning of testing runs.
EcoLogical
09/2023 - 12/2023 • Champaign, Illinois, United States (Remote)
• Using Ant Design components to improve the front-end experience of the flagship web app.
• Set up 10 mutations and queries to AWS Amplify backend for the user signup workflow.
IOIntelligence
07/2022 - 09/2022 • Bellevue, Washington, United States
• Developed a 5 page application dashboard that displays networking analytics from company's wireless devices worldwide.
• Used Chakra UI, React for frontend and Express.js and MySQL for the backend.
Molloy Moreno LLC
06/2021 - 09/2021 • Issaquah, Washington, United States
• Developed a serverless web app for New York school teachers to track the academic progress of at-risk students.
• Made final design choices for UI components.
• Used React to implement UI components on the frontend and AWS for storing media on the backend.
Endevre Technologies
06/2017 - 05/2018 • Cupertino, California. United States
• Promoted company products through emails, and by giving presentations at events.
• Secured sponsorships with multiple hackathon events at high schools throughout the Bay Area.
• Designed company websites and page layouts for products.
Bellevue College
08/2021 - 06/2022 • Bellevue, Washington, United States
• Met with 3 members of faculty to discuss how to grow Bellevue College CS (currently at 150 students).
• Helped facilitate constructive communication between faculty and students with regards to curriculum.
• Planned out $1000 budget for CS department use in 2023. Tracked all expenses using Microsoft Excel.
DemocracyLab
05/2021 - 08/2021 • Issaquah, Washington, United States
• Used Figma to design 3 wireframes for the CodePDX project, which is a web app that develops applications to improve the lives of people living in Portland, Oregon.
• Used React to redesign 5 components for the Accessibility Ratings Project, which aims to help users submit accessibility feedback to big tech companies regarding their app offerings.
• Designed 3 wireframes for the iSeaTree mobile app project, which aims to help young kids explore the indigenous tree species of the Pacific Northwest.
My House
08/2020 - present • Issaquah, Washington, United States
• Created websites / designs using technologies like React, UI frameworks like Semantic UI, and Typescript.
• Used the Google Chrome API to create a Google Chrome extension to block YouTube recommendations.
• Developed a replica of the popular Microsoft Wordament game using Typescript, and React.
Quora
08/2017 - 03/2020 • Issaquah, Washington, United States
• Writing about history, and other topics, with over 30 million answer views since 2017.
• Managing own blog about futuristic technology, over 30k followers.
• Admin and moderator of multiple blogs about finance and interesting information.
Using the React.js framework, I created a distance tracker that uses an external API to take two cities in the United States, and calculate their distance and the travel time in minutes. After each request, the data will be logged in an external form, which I took from Material UI. This was one of my first projects and helped me practice styling, HTML, and displaying data from API's, as well as using third party libraries.
For my senior year capstone project in undergraduate, I worked with three others to create a Yelp-like app that will empower and enable food truck vendors to more easily attract customers and run their business. I worked with mostly Typescript and React.js on the front end for developing the UI and used Adobe XD for the initial mockups. On the backend, I helped with writing SQL queries and making sure the AWS services were linked up seamlessly with the frontend.
In my first internship, I helped create an educational web app that helps at risk high school students track their future career goals. I utilized various front end technologies like React.js along with backend tools like AWS for hosting. After the internship was completed, this app is now in beta testing in a high school of a couple hundred students in New York City.
A desktop application that allows you to query 4 LLM's at once for a single input. Supports Claude, Llama 3.1, ChatGPT, and Gemini. As someone who uses LLM's a lot in my day to day life, I wanted an easy and convenient way to ask multiple LLM's at once, and it resulted in this project.
A web application with a React frontend and three backends written in different languages that are all connected to a common MySQL database. Users will be able to send repetitive queries to any backend that they choose and see how fast the server responds after the completed operation.
I created a Google Chrome Extension leveraging the Google Sheets API that allows me to quickly identify the specific companies that I have already submitted job applications for. This was a response to a problem I had where after submitting 1000+ job applications, I would often apply mistakenly to companies twice. This extension highlights companies that I have applied to in orange, which helps me streamline my job search and become more efficient.
A full stack web application that utilizes PyTorch and the NLTK natural language processing framework to classify and accept user prompts to search for images with a specific characteristic. Users will be able to query for a label in images on the frontend and retrieve results.
Decoding morse code using binary trees, written in Java. This was for a class project.
Whitehouse.gov website if Andrew Yang got elected as the US President in 2024.
This is the very first version of my personal website, using basic front end technologies.
The second version of my personal website, built with React, TypeScript, and Next.js.
An Android app to help doctors and family track the medicine schedules of elderly patients.
Work done for UIUC's Distributed Systems class, where I built my own distributed system from scratch.
Code that I wrote for Bellevue College's Operating Systems class using Linux OS and C.
Data Structures and databases work from Bellevue College
Work from my cloud computing class at Bellevue College, involving AWS services