Industry Experience
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Software Engineer Intern | Systems Infrastructure
Summer 2026 · Mountain View, CA
- Incoming Summer 2026
FoodFluence AI
Software Engineer Intern | Full Stack
Fall 2025 · Austin, TX · Recommendation
- Architected a cross-platform sign-up workflow for TikTok-only influencers, restructuring 70+ core modules across 5 repositories to resolve cross-service bottlenecks and unlock a projected $500k+ in revenue from 8k+ new creators.
- Developed a reverse geocoding pipeline for 36k+ influencer profiles with 99% accuracy, implementing a multi-level caching layer to reduce API overhead by 60% and enabling high-performance, multi-criteria zip code filtering.
- Prevented 95% of erroneous invitations for 3.5k+ partners via duplicate detection, saving 10+ hours of weekly cleanup.
- Deprecated 12,000 lines of legacy code via shared libraries across 5+ repositories, boosting maintainability by 55%.
Samsung SDS
Software Engineer Intern | AI Agents
Summer 2025 · Seoul, South Korea · Recommendation
- Engineered a memory-augmented AI agent for on-device applications, enabling dynamic, context-aware behavior generation; improved task completion accuracy by 38% through advanced retrieval from a vectorized memory store.
- Architected a scalable core memory system with short-term buffers and long-term semantic stores via OpenSearch.
- Optimized memory consolidation through adaptive few-shot prompting, enhancing agent learning efficiency by 20%.
TwinSketch
Software Engineer Intern | Platform Infrastructure
Summer 2025 · San Francisco, CA
- Architected a robust role-based access control system with granular permissions and strict API validation using Zod schemas, mitigating unauthorized access risks by 65% and enabling auditable access control for enterprise clients.
- Engineered automated DynamoDB backups with PITR and AWS Backup integration, ensuring 99.9% data durability.
- Built robust testing infrastructure with Jest, achieving 90%+ coverage and 70% fewer bugs with automated validation.
Fasoo Inc.
Software Engineer Intern | Conversational AI
Summer 2024 · Seoul, South Korea
- Developed a voice-to-note solution for 3k+ daily users using VAD optimization and multi-threaded processing, achieving 96% transcription accuracy and optimizing end-to-end latency by 40% through a low-latency backend.
- Implemented a TTS platform for bi-directional, real-time voice communication, increasing user engagement by 65%.
Software Engineer Intern | Internal Tools
Summer 2023 · Seoul, South Korea
- Shipped a reusable React component library to overhaul the company’s internal project management system, consolidating over 5,000 lines of redundant code and reducing frontend bugs in related features by 20%.
- Developed a real-time markdown renderer with live preview, boosting productivity by 40% for 300+ employees.
Software Engineer Intern | Application Security
Summer 2021 · Seoul, South Korea
- Created a deliberately insecure Flask application to test Sparrow, a static/dynamic application security testing solution.
- Augmented Sparrow’s static application security testing (SAST) suite with new ground truths, mitigating 90% of obfuscated OWASP Top 10 security risks in Flask WebGoat, surpassing the detection capabilities of external tools.
Campus Leadership
Purdue Hack the Future
Internal Outreach Lead
Fall 2025 — Present
- Having fun :)
Team Lead
Fall 2024 — spring 2025
- Leading a 10-person team in developing and deploying a revamped website for Rebuilding Together East Bay Network (RTEBN), ensuring stakeholder alignment.
- Organized weekly meetings, served as the primary communication point with stakeholders, and utilized Agile methodology for project management.
- Acted as Scrum Master, facilitating team collaboration and mentoring in React, Git version control, and design principles for effective project delivery.
Frontend Developer
Fall 2023 — Spring 2024
- Developed a robust billing website for YWCA Greater Lafayette using React and Material UI, enhancing both user experience and operational efficiency.
- Created a CSV file previewer that seamlessly integrates with the new billing frontend, offering efficient parsing and instant display of data in a well-organized table, tailored for non-profit billing management.
- Automated the generation of personalized vendor bills from CSV uploads, facilitating direct PDF downloads and achieving a 65% reduction in bill processing time.
Backend Developer
Fall 2020 — Spring 2021
- Worked in a team to develop large-scale software for NICHES Land Trust, an organization focused on conserving natural habitats in west-central Indiana.
- Developed a full-stack web application that tracks items needing removal in parks, integrating geolocation to help volunteers navigate trails with interactive landmarks and waypoints.
Academic Mentorship
Information Systems
Spring 2025
CS 34800
- Facilitated weekly office hours to assist students in debugging and optimizing complex SQL queries using SQLite, reinforcing core concepts of relational algebra and functional dependencies.
- Supported student learning in non-relational database architectures, providing technical guidance on document-based modeling with MongoDB and graph database implementations using Neo4j.
- Evaluated final projects for 50+ students, assessing web-based applications based on database design documentation, indexing strategies, Prepared Statements, ORMs, and transaction isolation levels.
Systems Programming
Fall 2024, Spring 2026 (Head TA)
CS 25200
- Conducted weekly lab sessions, assisting 300+ students in systems programming concepts and supporting malloc implementation, shell scripting, shell implementation, thread programming, and web server projects in C/C++.
- Selected as Head TA (Spring 2026) to lead lab sessions, delivering comprehensive project introductions and live technical demonstrations including x86-64 assembly programming and debugging with GDB/GEF.
- Conducted in-lab project evaluations, interviewing students to verify comprehension of their unique implementations while ensuring strict memory safety using Valgrind.
Programming in C
Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026
CS 24000
- Guided 300+ students on core C concepts (memory management, pointers, structs) through a course Q&A forum.
- Participated in QA for assignments for 700+ students, graded assignments, and led weekly labs with 30+ students.
- Evaluated code standards, specifically focusing on variable definitions, initialization, and scope detection to ensure adherence to quality standards.
Object-Oriented Programming
Fall 2025
CS 18000
- Mentored 600+ students on foundational Object-Oriented Programming principles, including polymorphism, inheritance, encapsulation, and interface implementation in Java.
- Facilitated weekly lab sessions to assist 40+ students per section with complex assignments involving multi-threaded concurrency, synchronization, network I/O, and GUI development using event listeners.
- Resolved 100+ technical inquiries on Ed Discussion, debugging student code snippets and clarifying complex concepts such as concurrency constraints, recursion, and interface polymorphism.