Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Software Development Engineer Intern

Seattle, WA

May 2025 - Aug 2025

  • •SDE Intern on the AWS CloudFormation team, where I built a Java serverless AI agent that triages and investigates 200+ incoming tickets each week in production.
  • •I designed and deployed the workflow with AWS CDK, chaining SNS and SQS for eventing, Lambda for execution, and Step Functions for orchestration, and used Amazon Bedrock for LLM-powered analysis and classification.

Database Optimization with GPUs (Research)

Research Assistant | Advisor: Xiangyao Yu

Madison, WI

Nov 2024 - May 2026

  • •Optimized NVIDIA GPU performance in OLAP databases with custom algorithms, reaching a 60% improvement in query execution speed using CUDA and RAPIDS cuDF.
  • •Worked with NVIDIA to integrate the research into the open-source cuDF library.

UW-Madison FinTech Club

President, Lead Engineer

Madison, WI

Jan 2023 - May 2026

  • •Led a student organization of over 200 members as president, setting direction and running operations.
  • •Led projects in blockchain and algorithmic trading, mentored the project teams, and ran workshops and speaker sessions for members.

AbbVie

DevOps Engineer Intern

Remote

Oct 2024 - May 2025

  • •Automated CI/CD pipelines and system-to-system integration workflows using Jenkins, Docker, and custom scripting to improve deployment speed and ensure 99.9% uptime in a high-availability environment.
  • •Coordinated with cross-functional teams to manage and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure, enhancing scalability, performance, and deployment efficiency through the integration of Kubernetes.

Uline

Software Developer Intern

Pleasant Prairie, WI

May 2024 - Aug 2024

  • •Built an application on an Agile Scrum team that generates complementary orders for the top 2,000 customers, automating a previously tedious manual process and saving the business hours of work.
  • •Built the backend with Spring Boot (Java) and the frontend with Angular and TypeScript.
  • •Covered the work with JUnit and Postman tests to validate reliability.