// Experience

Contract Software Engineer

Hit a perfect 100% lighthouse SEO score on zeroentropy.dev by migrating to static HTML generation using Astro and MDX-based blogs. Rebuilt the engineering blog on MDX with custom typed components, reducing posts to validated markdown file with auto-generated metadata

Contract Software Engineer

Built dashboard.zeroentropy.dev in Typescript with a Python FastAPI backend, giving users a frontend interface to interact with the ZeroEntropy API. Integrated top-k semantic search across user document collections with debounced inputs, paginated ranked results, and graceful error handling, enabling users to query their data without direct API interaction

Software Engineer Intern

Identified 6 previously unknown GCP network anomalies by building a C++ telemetry validation pipeline for dozens of petabytes of data. Diagnosed a VPS outage blocking 50+ interns from their dev instances and routed them to a workaround, restoring their ability to work

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Initial developer on TITENN; validated an experimental ML-optimized network by building PoC firmware in C for ESP32 and PIC microcontrollers with BLE integration, validated by an AR simulation of military combat training

Software Engineer Intern

Added user permission roles to the access gateway of a pre-launch zero-trust platform, then fixed defects and refactored code across the gateway and broader product

// Projects

horizonOS
64 bit Operating System

Hobby kernel targeting x86_64 with Limine bootloader, 4 level paging, dynamic page table allocation, apic-based interrupt routing. uACPI support, keyboard and timer drivers. Capable of playing the video game Pong

code-hint
AI coding assistant

AI coding assistant built from scratch with its own streaming tool-use loop, and Qdrant hybrid memory layer.

Codebase RAG
Answer questions about a repo

Discord bot and CLI tool to answer natural language questions about a codebase. Uses

TernarySearch
Multiplayer leetcode

Open source competitive programming platform allowing on-demand contest creation for competing with friends

Home Lab
Self-hosted site & services

AWS infrastructure provisioned with Terragrunt/Terraform; services (Gitea, pastebin, wiki, file transfer, uptime monitor) containerized in Docker with gVisor sandbox behind nginx

Chime
C Chat Application

CLI tool Text over TCP/IP, file transfer implemented in UDP and custom protocol emulating QUIC for fast transfers