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• Work Experience:

  Boddle Learning

  Ruby on Rails Engineer | Jan, 2023 - Current | Tulsa, OK

  Google/Apple-funded EdTech startup that provides a cross-platform (mobile and web) game designed to help K-6 students practice math and English. The platform provides personalized learning to support over 7 million students, growing from 2.5 million since 2023.

  • Tech used: Ruby on Rails, Next.js, Bootstrap, AWS (S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation, RDS), RabbitMQ, Redis, New Relic, Twilio SendGrid, Twilio 2FA, PostgreSQL, Playwright
  • Contributed to Boddle's Learning Management System (LMS) Team: Worked on a web application allowing teachers to view and modify students' educational data, and collaborated on the development of the in-house CRM and a WebGL-based game.
  • Built a teacher-driven content creation system: Enabled teachers to create multimedia-rich questions (text, images, videos) for students to answer in all game environments. Integrated real-time AI-based screening to prevent users from submitting inappropriate questions.
  • Led the development of a new in-game payment infrastructure: Integrated platform with Stripe for secure transaction processing across all 7M+ users. Designed and built a custom API to manage checkout sessions, product IDs, dynamic pricing, discounts, and purchase locations, ensuring better data for the company's growth team and compliance with U.S. tax regulations.
  • Optimized system performance: Monitored system performance and bug resolution using New Relic, reducing query counts on several pages by ~80%. Also collaborated with a developer and QA to build Boddle's first testing suite to improve code quality and testing coverage.

  Company website | My project

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  HPRC - Texas A&M University

  Junior Developer | Jan, 2022 - Dec, 2022 | College Station, TX

  A Texas A&M University research department, focused on providing supercomputing resources, education, and support for other research departments.

  • Tech used: Ruby (Sinatra), Next.JS, Bootstrap, Bash, Python2, SQLite
  • Created a dashboard utilizing that allowed users to retrieve information on what services they were using, how much they were being billed, request additional computing resources, and provided regular email-based updates to alert users to where they were at with both their remaining resources and status of running jobs.
  • Taught multiple courses in supercomputing for researchers to better understand how best to work with A&M's supercomputers
  • Published a paper for the research department regarding the impact of STEM education at an early age.

  Department website
• Education:

  Texas A & M University

  B.S. Industrial Engineering | Aug, 2018 - Dec, 2022 | College Station, Texas

  University website
• Publications, Certifications & Awards

  Cybersecurity and Data Science Curriculum for Secondary Student Computing Programs

  Published Oct 2022

  I co-authored this research with the Texas A&M High-Performance Research Computing (HPRC) department aiming to enhance computing education and curriculum development at the K-12 level. I had the opportunity to present our findings at the SC '22 Conference on Supercomputing, and the paper was subsequently published in the Journal of Computational Science Education.

  The conference | Check the paper out!
• Projects:

  ParlayMonkey

  Mar 2023 - Present

  ParlayMonkey is a passion project between myself and four of my close friends. It's an online sports betting platform with a custom admin portal, PayPal payment integration, and real-time updating of odds. I'm mainly responsible for development and maintenance of the app, while other team members handle design and gather the data we use to create lines.

  Tech Used: T3 Stack (TailwindCSS, Next.JS, tRPC), Supabase, TypeScript, Jest, Cypress, PayPal API

  Check out the project!

  Pokemon: Auto Chess

  Nov 2024 - Present

  Pokemon Auto Chess is a fan-made multiplayer game combining elements from Auto Battler games (Like TFT, for example) with the graphics and vibe of the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series. The game has 6k+ players a day, and is run entirely by volunteers.

  Tech used: TypeScript, Colyseus, MongoDB, Firebase, Grafana, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Redis, Solarwinds

  Check out the project!
  Check out the repo!
  Architecture

  Glucose Monitor

  Aug 2024 - Current

  The Glucose Monitor is an app that alerts users if their glucose levels are unstable. Users can input their glucose values when fasting or after eating. Depending on these inputs, it will calculate a score for users, and notify them based on that.

  Tech used: Kotlin, Room, SQLite

  Check out the repo!