Experience

Internships and roles, most recent first.

Blackhawk Network

June 2025 to August 2025

Software Engineering Intern · Pleasanton, CA

  • Built a chatbot using AWS Bedrock/Claude and custom RAG system for cloud issue diagnostics and data retrieval.
  • Created an AWS monitoring pipeline with Lambda, S3, and CloudWatch to auto-update the chatbot's knowledge base.
  • Automated AWS EC2 deployment using a CloudFormation Stack Generator to scale infra across all BHN regions.
  • Deployed ThousandEyes agents on EC2 instances for 100% monitoring coverage; built a React + Flask dashboard for real-time metrics.

Ciena Corporation

June 2024 to October 2024

Software Engineering Intern · San Francisco Bay Area, CA

  • Built internal LLM tools with AWS Bedrock/Claude, integrated into Microsoft Teams supporting 10k+ daily queries.
  • Developed a GitHub PR reviewer in Python using Claude to auto-analyze repos and generate actionable feedback.
  • Integrated the LLM with Microsoft Teams via the Navi chatbot API for corporate-wide access.

Tarana Wireless

June 2023 to August 2023

Software Engineering & Data Science Intern · San Francisco Bay Area, CA

  • Developed a Python automation bot to classify, sort, and respond to support tickets, cutting response time by 75%.
  • Created an AI agent using Claude/Langchain to classify ticket categories achieving 99% accuracy across 20+ categories.
  • Implemented Databricks + MLflow pipelines for model versioning, batch processing, and scalable support ops.
  • Cut ticket escalation by over 50% with an LLM-driven FAQ system that resolved common issues automatically.

Splurge Software LLC

December 2021 to June 2023

Lead Software Developer / Founder · San Francisco Bay Area, CA

  • Built a deal automation tool in Golang + React.js, securing 100k+ deals for customers from Big Box online retailers.
  • Designed a backend using gRPC, custom HTTP clients, and proxy rotation, handling millions of requests daily.
  • Fetched price drops, restocks, and promo data via request-based collectors hitting public product pages and official APIs.

UC Berkeley Advanced Bioimaging Center

May 2021 to September 2021

Software & Data Research Intern · Berkeley, CA

  • Developed automated ingestion pipelines to process 1TB+ of microscopy data using Python/NumPy, for training CNNs.
  • Created segmentation tools for grouping thousands of research images, supporting major biological research publications.