Experience

Grad. Research Assistant @ UIUC (Aug. 2024 — Present)

AWS Python Typescript

Part-Time | Champaign, IL

Building demo agricultural digital twin platform hosting virtual representations, simulations, and scientific visualizations at four spatial scales: plant, field, regional (watershed/county), and national levels
Engineering farmer-facing fertilizer recommendation tools at tools.asc.illinois.edu with scalable AWS microservice architecture (CloudFront, EKS, Load Balancer) routing data processing traffic to generate custom visualizations
Deployed a seperate survey site version of the farmer-facing recommendation tools using AWS CloudFront, RDS, EKS, and Lambda functions for authentication and data logging; automating monthly exports tracking user activity
Updating asc.illinois.edu (Agroecoystem Sustainability Center) website structure, templating, and content

AWS Terraform CI/CD

Contract | Remote

Led development of multi-environment infrastructure as code using Terraform to establish AWS CodePipeline workflows, enabling scalable deployments for the internal operations platform and carbon pipelines
Improved deployment time from 2 weeks to 1-2 days for 18 AWS services defining 200+ integrated components
Pioneered integration between existing CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Spinnaker) and new IaC pipeline collaborating with senior engineers to evaluate and optimize deployment strategies while maintaining system reliability
Defined detailed disaster recovery and backup strategies for S3, RDS, ElastiCache, and Bitbucket source code

React.js Data Visualization AWS

Internship | Remote

Developed features for a carbon processing pipeline handling millions of U.S. Corn Belt States’ fields: automated QA/QC, real-time data refresh, and interactive data visualization components using React.js, D3.js, and ChakraUI
Designed and implemented modular UI components including project selection interfaces, navigation systems, and reusable statistics modules, significantly improving internal platform usability and maintainability
Built comprehensive cloud monitoring system with FastAPI and AWS CloudWatch, featuring multi-dimensional metrics, severity-based alerting (SEV1-SEV3), and controller-specific analytics across prod and dev environments

Scientific Visualization Python

Part-Time | Champaign, IL

Developed 3D visualization in NVIDIA Omniverse of plant models reconstructed via procedural generation
Investigated software for integration of physics-based radiation modeling to Sun and crop growth simulations
Automated conversions between mesh file types (.obj, .usd, .ply) for 3D asset use in Blender and USD Composer

Python Pandas Teaching

Part-Time | Champaign, IL

Wrote, updated, and maintained 14 weekly Jupyter Notebook labs that teach introductory data science concepts in Python through practical applications of Pandas and sk-learn to UIUC and course-specific student datasets
Guided weekly labs and office hours providing coursework and technical assistance for over 1200 students
Authored or edited 100+ programming and data science questions for mastery.cs.illinois.edu
Built reproducible content with Python and Matplotlib to generate chart variations, integrate them into Markdown-based question banks, and enable extensibility for additional visualized question sets

Computer Vision AWS React.js

Internship | Bloomington, IL

Constructed an end-to-end web application to showcase 4 computer vision models, enabling user interaction, image upload, processing, and dynamic results for image classification, object detection, and image captioning
Collaborated with a team of 6 engineers and data scientists to design cloud backend processing for various computer vision models via POST requests. Solution integrated AWS SageMaker, Lambda, and API Gateway
Built frontend using ReactJS and customized MaterialUI components, deploying to dev and prod environments

API Development MySQL AWS

Part-Time | Champaign, IL

Developed Python-based backend utilizing Flask API requests to facilitate data interactions, authenticate user permissions, and populate HabiTerre’s carbon emissions analysis web platform
Scripted the population of an AWS RDS database of historical and predictive agricultural data for over 7 million U.S. farm fields, aggregating into county and state-level data for data visualizations on a React-Redux platform
Improved frontend image load time by 66% through caching and endpoint generating pre-signed image URLs
Modified over 12 unique data visualizations on the front-end of the React-Redux platform using ChartJS

NLP Azure AWS

Internship | Chicago, IL

Prototyped the adaptation of a TensorFlow BERT deep-learning language model fine-tuning pipeline from AzureML to AWS SageMaker, integrating S3, EC2, and ECR services
Built and optimized over 10 different NLP classification model themes using BERT technologies and cross-validation testing, resulting in an overall average score improvement of 5% F1 in comparison to SVM models
Utilized seaborn to generate visualizations evaluating the performance and changes in classification model scores
Compiled model training results into concise reports and consolidated ML workflows into thorough documentation