Personal Statement
Detail-oriented full-stack developer with hands-on experience in building, testing, and maintaining applications.
A Computer Science student at UW-Madison and a Software Development Intern at Certifi, passionate about creating efficient, secure, and user-friendly software solutions.
Experience
Software Development Intern — Certifi
June 2024 – Present
- Accelerated development by implementing hot code reload, eliminating server restart delays to improve developer productivity.
- Enhanced and unified user experience by creating a system-wide confirmation popup and a drag-and-drop ordering system for intuitive data management.
- Resolved data inconsistencies by using SQL to dynamically update over 100 tables across 30+ schemas, affecting more than 2 billion rows.
- Increased system transparency and accountability by implementing system-wide user modification tracking.
- Strengthened application security by identifying and fixing Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities and other potential security threats.
- Contributed to modernization efforts by migrating legacy enterprise code from Java EE to Jakarta EE.
Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Fall 2024 – Anticipated Spring 2027
Major GPA: 3.9
- Classes: Programming II-III, Machine Organization & Programming, Linear Algebra, and Computer Graphics
- CheeseHacks: Placed 3rd in a 24-hour hackathon, collaborating with a team to develop a vision-based interface for Subway Surfers using Python
- Wisconsin Robotics: Contributed to the development of an autonomous rover, improving GPS accuracy using Real Time Kinematics (RTK) for precise navigation.
Marshall High School
Graduation: 2024
GPA: 3.99
- FIRST Robotics Team: Led the software sub-team in implementing dynamic, vision-based game piece pickup, autonomous pathfinding, and scoring algorithms for competition robots.
- Won the 2024 Northern Lights Regional Championship
Skills
- Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, C
- Frameworks & Libraries: Spring, Hibernate, AngularJS, Liquibase
- Tools & Platforms: Git, Jenkins, PostgreSQL, AWS (SSM, DynamoDB, S3)
- Technical Skills: Software Development Lifecycle, Security Best Practices, Database Design, REST APIs