Software Engineer Intern

Application Security Course Assistant

Part-time (Sep 2022 – May 2025) · Summer Intern (2023 & 2024)

• ●Provide comprehensive IT support, ensuring high client satisfaction by effectively addressing and resolving desktop and laptop hardware issues for over 32 departments.
• ●Collaborated on a software backend project for software deployment through bash scripting and databases to optimize security, device and employee management, improving tracking and deployment efficiency by 60%.
• ●Completed on-the-job bootcamps and training in ServiceLink, MyTime, desktop support, and NYU-specific software.
• ●Handle setting up and configuring shipments of over 300 electronic devices for classrooms and future employees.
• ●Provide support for NYU Print services, classrooms, labs, and email kiosks.
• ●Handle hardware maintenance such as pulling out and wiping drives (SSDs and HDDs) to be reused or disposed of.

Software Developer Intern

• ●Collaborated with a team of 8 including developers, UX designers, and program managers in a 15-week program to design an inclusive user-centric MVP: a frontend website for assisting a burnout community.
• ●Utilized tools like FigJam for design, Jira for Sprint Planning, GitHub, and VSCode for SCRUM planning and development.
• ●Developed features such as free-form and prompt-based journaling using React-Quill and saving using local storage.
• ●Used various React.js APIs coded in JavaScript to create joke/daily affirmation bots, search functionality, and journals.
• ●Pair-Programmed with developers often creating flow-charts to build the website and features using React and JS.
• ●Hosted site using Netlify deployment.

Team Liaison & AR Backend Software Engineer

• ●Developed interactive 3D AR models for NYU's library app using Unity, enhancing navigation and integrating with the reservation system using a Google Calendar API.
• ●Managed cross-team communication to integrate AR with 6 other front-end and back-end teams and features.
• ●Developed C# program on Unity for functionalities in the 3D model such as buttons to switch floors and rooms.

Robotics Software Engineer

• ●Developed a cutting-edge robot for lunar excavation in the NASA Lunabotics Competition.
• ●Cooperated and managed tasks through SCRUM and Trello ticketing system to manage sprint tasks and goals.
• ●Created code and state machines in Python for successful locomotion, excavation, and deposition functions.
• ●Researched and implemented precise computer vision algorithms, particularly AprilTags and OpenCV, enhancing object detection for the robot's camera system.
• ●Mentored students during outreach events such as hackathons and as a volunteer for the PolyPrep Country Day Middle-High School Robotics Team.

Software Developer / MLH Participant

• ●Developed a fully functioning social media website 'EcoPost' with a team of 4 within 2 days.
• ●Emphasized user-friendliness and environmental consciousness; designed over 5 pages and profiles for judges.
• ●Utilized HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, and Java Spring Boot.

Tech Equity Team Member

• ●Researched Bronx Tech Equity and brainstormed proposals with a team.
• ●Proposed collaborative projects with over 10 organizations.
• ●Assisted organization for a project that distributed over 1,300 laptops and hotspots to schools and students.
• ●Set up Tech Lending Libraries across the Bronx, expanded community-controlled mesh networks, and developed a Bronx IT help desk.

Mobile App Development Summer Program

• ●Learned Swift and utilized Xcode to create iPhone/mobile apps.
• ●Created a diary/notes app to help with organization, mental health, and teaching new facts.

Web Development Summer Immersion Student

• ●Learned basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• ●Created a website raising awareness on mental health, providing ways to be more aware and opportunities to get help.