Résumé

           Experience

Software Engineer | Cellink | Blacksburg, VA | Jan. 2021 – Current

• Developed specialized fork of Marlin 3D printer firmware and make upstream contributions
• Diagnosed and fixed hardware faults in collaboration with hardware team on prototypes
• Documented novel systems, testing procedures, and workflows, implementing the later to reduce developer friction
• Integrated improvements across software stack and assisted in cleaning up of technical debt
• Coordinate with global team members using handover reports, structured communications, and strategic meetings

Release Management | Comcast (via WIPRO) | Philadelphia, PA | Oct. 2019 – Dec. 2020

• Analyzed metrics for large scale embedded Linux deployments using data science tools
• Triaged firmware issues with data analysis and code change review to keep releases moving
• Automated processes to simplify workflow, increasing throughput and enabling deeper analysis
• Collaborated effectively with global team members for round-the-clock metrics monitoring

Developer | Visible Systems Corp | Boston, MA | Sept. 2018 – Dec. 2018

• Modernized system architecture for serverless components, reducing costs and easing AI integration
• Refactored undocumented code for maintainability, higher performance, and leveraging async over threads
• Organized and wrote consistent documentation for product

Senior Engineer | IIOT-OXYS | Cambridge, MA | May 2017 – May 2018

• Designed and deployed complete machine interlock safety system adhering to ISO and UL standards
• Led development of a modular, scalable, IOT edge-analytics platform for structural monitoring
• Utilized test driven design, and implemented style guides for maintainability
• Integrated products with client software and performed on location installations

           Projects

Print3rs | A Rust Successor to Printrun Utilities

• Implemented cross-platform native handling for multi-protocol async device communication
• Modularized components to be composable for easily building applications
• Created idiomatic cross-platform command-line utility and flexible modern GUI
• Leveraged reproducible environments, workspaces, and CI tooling to ease maintenance
• Learned, implemented, and removed procedural macros, understanding their powers and drawbacks
• Integrating with multiple Rust async ecosystems using compatibility crates and new async traits
• Planning idiomatic C, C++, and Python bindings using automations to ease publishing and maintenance

Skyenet | Personal Web Services

• Composed Docker/Podman nodes with scripted deployments onto heterogenous home hardware
• Secured a public facing server with robust reverse proxy, configuring VPN and SSH tunneling
• Hardened Linux installation on servers with tor for secure remote administration
• Deployed services to local high availability cluster with distributed fault tolerant datastores
• Setup and administrate multiple federate media sites, moderating users and integrating SSO

Hyperdome | Secure Counseling Platform

• Presented a minimum viable server and graphical application from scratch in 24 hours
• Designed modern federation-ready web APIs with both FastAPI and Axum server implementations
• Received unanimous “Judges Choice Award” at Rocket.Build Community 2019 hackathon
• Created multiple example clients demonstrating portable UI in Python and Rust, with Stem and Arti
• Maintain project to ensure state of the art cryptography and security design

AppVault | Hardware Security Device

• Managed project integrating electronics, embedded programming, cryptography, and VLSI
• Researched and briefed team on secure design principals, standards, and strategies
• Utilized existing open source security projects, maintained the project as fully open source
• Implemented a novel security design which was trustable even in the case of a compromised host machine
• Programmed a custom C bootloader to manage verification and decryption of embedded apps
• Integrated an off-chip encryption engine utilizing resilient communications protocols