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Co-Founder & CEO
Theory•  September 2017 - Present
Co-Founder of Theory IoT (https://theoryiot.com), a practical smart home solution for renters. Responsible for Android, iOS, and Web apps, Alexa and Google Assistant integrations, back-end architecture, business matters (trademarks, incorporation, financing), AWS DevOps, recruiting, customer discovery, and more.
Amazon Redshift - SDE Intern
Amazon•  May 2020 - July 2020
Ideated and developed Simple Replay, an open source tool for replaying workloads on Amazon Redshift using Python. Targeted release while managing private betas with external AWS customers. Helped resolve customer issues escalated to AWS leadership. Became point-of-contact and subject matter expert. Coordinated with customers, principal engineers, principal PMs, legal, marketing, and other business units to design project and create a multi-phased release. Onboarded and handed project to another intern.
Amazon's Choice - SDE Intern
Amazon•  May 2019 - August 2019
Expanded relevancy and applicability, significantly increasing purchasing metrics. Started a new cross-organization product, involving senior PMTs, SDEs, UX researchers, and more. Doubled the types of consumed data, increasing relevancy and fueling new customer experiences.
SDE Intern
NCR•  May 2018 - December 2018
Solely responsible for all development of the Innovation Lab’s Android app. Worked in an Android app with over one million lines of code and hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. Finished UI/UX redesign estimated for 700 hours in 70 hours. Introduced instrumentation tests by implementing Espresso and UI Automator and integrated them into CI pipeline. Assisted in architecting push notifications. Reduced 5 minute order wait times to 0. Started a Kotlin multiplatform project to reduce duplicate code in Android and iOS. Introduced and implemented new features, fixed bugs, and performed over 130 regression tests. Actively contributed in daily standups, retrospectives, and sprint plannings.
Expressive Machinery Lab - Undergraduate Researcher
Georgia Institute of Technology•  September 2017 - May 2018
Assisted in creating a NSF-funded project designed to introduce computing concepts using OpenFrameworks and C++. Created overlays and hardware simulators to allow development without hardware. Brought a research project into a stable environment for deployment via QA testing.
Summer Intern
Drexel University•  June 2014 - June 2017
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Computer Science, BS•  August 2017 - December 2020
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