2025
Youth Program Coordinator at the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Services.
Applied clear and structured communication to teach students core STEM and English skills, adapting explanations to different learning styles and needs. Collaborated with staff to deliver services focused on youth education, mental health support, and education readiness which helped to improve engagement and access to vital resources.
Managed logistics for classroom supplies, organized distribution of learning materials, and supported day-to-day operations. Supervise students during lunch/gym sessions and participated in coordinating enrichment activities.
2024
Research Intern at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.
Implemented innovative computer vision algorithms such as SAM, MedSAM, and SAM 2 to enhance segmentation accuracy, reducing segmentation errors and achieving improved results on challenging datasets with complex anatomical structures by close to 49%.
Worked with a research team to apply techniques such as image cropping, enhancement, adaptive thresholding, and the watershed algorithm to handle highly dense, low contrast images, ensuring precise segmentation and identification of individual cells.
2023
Intern at Cowan Consulting.
Facilitated clearer communication between technical and non-technical teams. Researched cybersecurity trends to identify potential growth opportunities, and assisted in evaluating real estate ventures and preparing legal documentation for business development.
Assisted in conducting usability testing for a new mobile application and the development of a user friendly interface for the app/website to result in an increase in user engagement and a decrease in bounce rate.
2022
Programing Intern at All Star Code.
Completed advanced coding projects utilizing Javascript, CSS, and HTML. Engaged in daily mentorship sessions with senior developers to enhance technical skills, leading to increased proficiency with software development tools.
Contributed to the successful implementations of programing projects, reducing bugs and improving code and overall product reliability.
Biography
Hi, I am a Computer Science student at the University at Buffalo with interests spanning software engineering, management, and AI. I enjoy building projects that blend technical depth with real-world impact, whether that’s developing full-stack applications, experimenting with AI, or designing interactive web experiences.
Outside of programming, I enjoy staying active through sports such as soccer, kickball, and badminton. I also enjoy reading and exploring new ideas, and I am open and excited about opportunities that allow me to experience new cities, environments, and perspectives.
Some of my favorite books include Hatchet, Holes, Nineteen Eighty-Four, James and the Giant Peach, and Rich Dad Poor Dad. I am always eager to learn, build, and take on new challenges, especially those that push me beyond my comfort zone.
Projects
⚡️ Featured Full Stack
VerityBridge
Co-founded and built VerityBridge, an early stage startup style real estate platform enabling direct buyer to seller interaction, with persistent backend data storage for property listings, user profiles, favorites, and metadata using Firebase Authentication and Firestore.
Developed authenticated user and admin workflows supporting full CRUD operations on listings, role based access control, video tour management, search and filtering functionality, and a responsive frontend built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
⚡️ Featured Backend
Production-Style Web Server
Built a web application with real-time collaboration and media streaming, implementing WebSockets (drawing-board broadcast, active user lists, continuation and back-to-back frame parsing) and video processing/streaming (FFmpeg thumbnail generation and HLS adaptive bit-rate delivery).
Designed and deployed a containerized, production-style architecture using Docker Compose and Nginx HTTPS reverse proxy and a separate authentication service that issues RS256-signed JWTs, with the app server verifying tokens independently, plus bcrypt auth cookies (HttpOnly+Secure), DOS attack prevention, and TOTP-based 2FA.
Event Website
Built an interactive event website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that showcases nonprofit organizations, event details, and resources through a structured, accessible layout.
Implemented dynamic features including dark mode, reduced motion support, form validation, RSVP tracking, and a success modal to improve user experience and accessibility.
OCaml Interpreter
Built an interpreter for a custom stack language with typed values (such as int/bool/string/unit/error), arithmetic + logic operators, string concatenation, printing, conditionals, name binding, and nested let…end scoped environments.
Added support for functions as values, using closures to store their code and surrounding variables, with fun/inOutFun, call, and return resolved at runtime.
Other Projects: Environmentally Friendly Trash Collecting Robot, Mu Gamma Chapter of Theta Tau Website, Recycling App, p5 Game, Calculator, Stopwatch, Digital Clock, Analog Clock
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