Work Experience

Starry - Senior Systems Software Engineer, Systems Software Engineer II

August 2022 - December 2023

Linux, Firmware, Rust, C

Led development of RPC server allowing coordination between connected devices to assist in field operation
Helped bring new products to market by writing tools such as collectd plugins and eeprom data parsers
Contributed to design, implementation, and configuration tooling of a custom TDMA network protocol
Researched and wrote documentation describing multi-CPU SoC firmware purchased from a third party
Modified U-Boot and associated Linux utilities to increase resilience against environment corruption

September 2019 - August 2022

Platform and Self-Service teams

Full-Stack Web Development, Python, Flask, React, Auth0, Docker

Implemented a registration process for Self-Service accounts to process 100+ requests/day
- Designed automated approval/rejection system with admin interface for managing logic
- Developed automation to provision accounts across applications and add records to Salesforce
Integrated external login system with existing applications using OIDC & SAML, serving 5,000+ MAU
- Managed incremental migration of 20,000 enterprise customer accounts onto this external system
Architected Self-Service account portal using Flask, React, and Docker, allowing users to manage their profile and account information in a central location and automatically sync it with other applications
Expanded RBAC system permissions and added the ability for customer admins to define their own roles
Wrote standardization guidelines to enable consistent user experience across a suite of API client libraries in multiple languages

July 2017 - December 2017, May 2018 - August 2018

Backend/Full-Stack Web Development, Ruby on Rails, React

Managed a tagging system for user accounts with over 4,500 tags utilized for search and marketing
- Collaborated with Product Stakeholders to organize tags into a logical hierarchy
- Built UI to allow users to find tags, add them to their profiles, and organize them into categories
- Developed API and internal web portal to facilitate the addition of new tags into the hierarchy
Created a website scraping tool that added new information to 50% of existing user profiles and increased prevalence of pre-filled web addresses on new users’ profiles by 25%
Developed an automated system for flagging connection-spamming users for admin review
Leveraged Facebook network data to automatically connect over 45,000 users with high affinity
Created a system allowing new users to request to join existing accounts to reduce duplicates on the site
Built admin interfaces for a variety of teams’ needs, e.g. managing spam, viewing region saturation stats

September 2016 - December 2018

Fundamentals of Computer Science, Programming Languages

Ran weekly labs reviewing class material and presenting example problems for 20-35 students
Graded student homework submissions and provided feedback on style, design, and implementation
Held weekly office hours to assist 10-20 students with homework and answer course-related questions

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Game Development

September 2015 - May 2019

3.924 GPA, Summa Cum Laude

Honors: Honor’s College, Dean’s List, Dean’s Scholarship