about
B.S. in CS + Math from UMass Amherst, now doing my M.S. in CS there as a Bay State Fellow. I build things that range from data pipelines serving researchers to poker-playing agents - I just like making stuff that works well.
Along the way: Chancellor's Scholarship, Dean's International Scholarship, Flynn Research Scholarship, Dean's List, and an Outstanding UCA Award for CS 240.
I care about backend systems that are correct every time, not just most of the time. ML and security live nearby; I like that both punish shallow understanding. Outside of code: games, anime, gym, and a tendency to go one tab too deep on things adjacent to whatever I'm building.
Looking for new grad software engineering roles starting 2027. .
Based in
Massachusetts, USA
School
UMass Amherst
Degree
M.S. CS '27 · B.S. CS & Math '26
Fellowship
Bay State Fellow
Focus
Backend · Data · ML
Open to
New Grad 2027 roles
“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
work
Sep 2025 - Present
Software Engineering Intern
CDS-AI ↗Replaced third-party tooling and manual workflows with a full-stack environmental monitoring platform serving 100+ researchers across Massachusetts DEP-funded salt marsh research.
- Sole engineer on the Salt Marsh Data Platform (saltmarshdata.org), owning the web portal, data pipelines, and mobile app in production
- Built backend data pipelines (PostgreSQL, Azure/S3 storage) to ingest, standardize, and store multi-organization salt marsh data for the Massachusetts DEP-funded Salt Marsh Data Platform, supporting 100+ researchers across 20+ organizations
- Implemented fault-tolerant NAS synchronization across heterogeneous formats with schema mapping and incremental batch processing
- Developed a multi-tenant web portal (React, FastAPI, PostgreSQL) with five-tier role-based access control and containerized deployment, managing 1,000+ weekly field records
- Built an offline-first Flutter mobile app for field data collection replacing third-party tooling - local SQLite storage, GPS capture with RTK location matching, nested survey workflows, and automated QC validation before ingestion
- Built containerized React tools with interactive geospatial visualizations for Woodwell Climate Research Center
Sep 2026 - Present
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst - COMPSCI 240 ↗Supporting 200+ students in probability and statistics as part of the Bay State Fellowship.
- Teaching Assistant for COMPSCI 240 (Reasoning Under Uncertainty), appointed through the Bay State Fellowship
- Lead weekly discussion sections and hold office hours for 200+ students
- Prepare exam questions and grade assignments and exams
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Software Engineering Intern
MGHPCC (Unity HPC Cluster) ↗Found $120K+ in wasted GPU resources and cut log analysis time by 80%, directly improving resource allocation across a major HPC cluster.
- Engineered low-latency telemetry pipelines in a Linux HPC environment to process 12+ months of cluster activity
- Optimized SQL queries and indexing strategies to accelerate SLURM log analysis by 80% across 10.9M+ job records
- Applied DBSCAN clustering to identify 63,000+ underutilized A100 GPU hours, uncovering $120K+ in wasted compute
- Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and pytest for monitoring services
May 2025 - May 2026
Undergraduate Course Assistant
Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst - COMPSCI 426 & 240 ↗Recognized with the Outstanding UCA Award while teaching probability and guiding teams through building production-grade distributed systems.
- Won the Outstanding UCA Award for contributions to COMPSCI 240
- Mentoring student teams 1-on-1 in CS426 (Scalable Web Systems) on distributed systems projects involving microservices, Redis, caching, and React
- Held discussion sections and office hours for 150+ students in CS240, covering probability, statistics, and reasoning under uncertainty
- Clarified complex topics including Bayesian reasoning, probabilistic modeling, and statistical inference through guided problem-solving
Jun 2021 - May 2025
Head of Technical Operations
Instilt Educate ↗Streamlined onboarding, improved developer velocity, and saved 10+ hours/week through automation and re-architected backend systems.
- Led a team of 10+ engineers across weekly sprint meetings
- Managed technical operations and system access control for 300+ users
- Built automated onboarding pipelines and scheduling automation with Google Calendar and Zoom APIs, saving 10+ hours/week
- Led backend re-architecture for scalable, high-performance systems
projects
Salt Marsh Data Platform
2025-2026Massachusetts DEP-funded platform for salt marsh monitoring, used by 100+ researchers across 20+ organizations. A React + FastAPI web portal and an offline-first Flutter field app with GPS/RTK capture, nested surveys, and automated QC before data reaches PostgreSQL.
“The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
research & academic work
Unity HPC Cluster Usage Analysis
CDS-AI Summer Research · Summer 2025
Built a Python analytics module for HPC workload telemetry and presented findings on usage patterns and resource allocation in the Unity HPC cluster. Sponsored by Adobe Research.
Exploiting CVE-2016-5764: Stack Buffer Overflow in Rumba FTP Client
UMass Amherst · Fall 2025
Analyzed a stack-based buffer overflow in the Rumba FTP client, documented the SEH overwrite exploitation path, and summarized the reverse engineering findings in a companion writeup.
Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Non-Equilibrium Stochastic Systems
UMass Amherst - Independent Study · Fall 2025
Studied stochastic systems using Fokker-Planck equations, comparing classical numerical solvers and physics-informed neural networks on double-well and non-equilibrium dynamics. Analyzed accuracy, stability, and scalability in high-dimensional diffusion problems.
writing
all posts →SambaCry Exploitation: From Initial Access to C2 Persistence
A technical breakdown of exploiting CVE-2017-7494 (SambaCry) into a complete post-exploitation chain: path traversal, privilege escalation, staged delivery, C2 communication, and operator control.
Exploiting CVE-2016-5764: Stack Buffer Overflow in Rumba FTP Client
A deep dive into exploiting a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Micro Focus Rumba FTP Client 4.2 using SEH overwrite techniques on Windows XP SP3.
contact
Let's connect.
Whether it's a job opportunity, collaboration, or just a question - I'm open to it.