Tech

Since June 2022, I have been working at Accenture as a tech consultant. I've been taking this opportunity to explore a wide range of industries, such as Capital Markets/Financial Services and Public Service, as well as a wide range of technologies like Oracle and AWS.

I have worked as a business analyst for a Financial Services client supporting a Merger & Acquisition with tech strategy. I was directly interfacing with members of the client's CTO team and other key stakeholders.

I then moved on to working for a Public Services client as a business analyst to support data migration and conversion for a service that serves ~2 million customers. As a business analyst, I worked directly with the clients and acted as backup to the team lead whenever he was out. I am currently a full-stack Java Developer for this same client, working through defects and resolving incidents.  

In addition to the work I do with clients, I also do work with a non-profit 5Gyres on their TrashBlitz mobile app through a partnership with our Eco ERG. I am also the FY24 content lead for the Field Service pillar within the Oracle CX practice, as well as a member of the FY24 Professional Development committee for the NorCal Analyst Development Program.

In the summer of 2021, I began working as a contractor with Inspirit AI, a growing startup teaching AI to students globally. I worked as an instructor for the AI Scholars (high school) program and picked up the Curriculum Manager role part way through. My responsibilities included maintaining and improving the existing curriculum.

During the Summer of 2023, I returned as a Program Manager for the weekend AI Scholars sessions. I managed a Zoom call for approximately 50-60 students and 10-12 instructors during each session and prepared email reminders and summaries for each class. During the sessions, I would resolve inquiry tickets through the Zendesk platform.

I attended Cornell University, graduating with a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in May 2021 and an M.Eng in Computer Science in December 2021. With my technical education, I spent time doing research over the summers with Prof. Zhiru Zhang within the Computer Systems Laboratory. During this time, I was able to co-author a paper published with IEEE during the 2019 FCCM conference. While primarily exploring hardware, I discovered an interest in AI and Machine Learning, specifically Computer Vision. I took many courses relating to the different facets of ML and a few robotics courses (one of which involved this fun project).

In addition to my interest in ML, I also fell in love with software engineering. One of my favorite technical classes was my functional programming class in which I and two other students built out a Tetris game in OCaml.
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As part of my engineering degree, I took some of my favorite liberal studies courses in Science Communication (which kickstarted my passion for blogging), Bioethics, and Human Development.

During my time at Cornell, I was an active member of the Big Red Marching Band (clarinet) and Big Red Pep Bands (clarinet, percussion). I took on leadership roles as the Rank Z Rank Leader (Fall 2018 - 2020) and Marching Band Historian (Fall 2021).