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Activities and Societies: Digital Cultures & Creativity Honors College

University of Maryland College Park

Senior Software Engineer

• Designed a scalable, distributed system integral for retrieving tax calculations in compliance with US IRS Section 871(m) regulations for 250,000 trades per day in proprietary object database (SecDb)
• Built and deployed a RESTful API service in proprietary scripting language (Slang) using a distributed processing pool for real-time 871(m) tax calculation

Summer Analyst, Operations Technology

• Performed Unix and Windows System Administration for over 1,000 hosts
• Provided customer-facing service to dozens of university professors and their researchers

Student Technical Staff

• Performed cryogenic testing of Zylon tendon and polyethylene film with an Instron tensile testing machine and a large-scale test chamber
• Assisted technicians with flight hardware testing for ISS-CREAM and LDSD missions
• Aided the construction of a prototype of the ExaVolt Antenna for a super-pressure balloon

NASA Balloon Research & Development Lab Intern

• Tracked major action items for Launch Site Service Implementation Readiness Review
• Communicated cross-functionally with multiple departments to expedite daily management tasks for project managers