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		<h3>Education</h3>
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		<p><b>Boston University</b>, Boston, MA, Sept 2015 - May 2019</p>
		<p><i>&nbspB.A. in Computer Science, Minor in Film and Television</i></p>
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			<li>GPA: 3.56</li>
			<li>Presidential Scholarship</li>
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		<h3>Skills</h3>
		<p><i>Programming Languages:</i> Bash, Golang, Groovy, Python, TypeScript</p>
		<p><i>Cloud Platforms:</i> AWS, GCP, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenStack</p>
		<p><i>AI/ML Software::</i> Claude Code, Cursor, OGX, Ollama, RamaLama, vLLM</p>
		<p><i>CI/CD & Tooling:</i> Ansible, Docker, Elasticsearch, Git, GitHub Actions, Grafana, Jenkins, Prometheus</p>
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		<h3>Industry Experience</h3>
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			<p><b>Red Hat</b>, Boston, MA</p>
			<p><i>&nbspSenior Software Engineer</i>, May 2024 - Present</p>
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				<li>Contributor to OGX, an agentic API server, with work such as refactoring APIs to use FastAPI routers, CLI tooling for AI coding harness integration, and security enforcement via pre-commit CI</li>
				<li>Key maintainer of Red Hat-official OGX container distributions, from server configuration to the building, testing, and publishing of container images to public and private container registries</li>
				<li>Founding member of the team transitioning InstructLab from an IBM Research proof-of-concept to a public open-source project that enables AI model production across a variety of hardware-accelerated profiles and served as the basis for the first version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI</li>
				<li>Served on multiple maintainer teams in the InstructLab community, which entailed designing major technical features, setting community governance policies, reviewing Pull Requests, triaging Issues, maintaining CI/CD actions for testing and releases, and running public meetings</li>
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			<p><i>&nbspSenior Software Quality Engineer</i>, July 2022 - May 2024</p>
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				<li>Owner of Performance and Scale test case development and execution for Network Observability, an operator for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform which provides a quick way to monitor and troubleshoot network issues in OpenShift clusters</li>
				<li>Conceptualized and constructed an automated E2E system which ran Performance and Scale tests of the Network Observability Operator within a managed Kubernetes / OpenShift cluster and shared test results to stakeholders within Engineering, Documentation, and Project Management</li>
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			<p><i>&nbspSoftware Quality Engineer</i>, July 2020 - July 2022</p>
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				<li>Designed and built a baremetal cluster load-balancing system in our hosted Jenkins CI platform with IRC client-based monitoring, which doubled utilization of server resources for automated installation and testing of Red Hat OpenStack Platform by the OpenStack QE Enterprise and System Testing team</li>
				<li>Led initial automation of test cases in Golang for the OpenShift QE Performance & Latency Sensitive Application Platform (PSAP) team and created training materials around the process</li>
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			<p><i>&nbspAssociate Software Quality Engineer</i>, July 2019 - July 2020</p>
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				<li>Created Jeeves, an open-source email report generator for Jenkins written in Python that was adopted by six OpenStack QE teams and received contributions from over a dozen collaborators on GitHub</li>
				<li>Developed and optimized Jenkins jobs used by the OpenStack QE Ceph Squad to execute various automated regression tests of Red Hat OpenStack Platform integration with Red Hat Ceph Storage</li>
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			<p><i>&nbspStorage Team Intern</i>, May 2018 - July 2019</p>
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				<li>Collaborated with development teams from both Red Hat and SUSE to write functional E2E tests for Ceph Dashboard, the monitoring system for Red Hat Ceph Storage</li>
				<li>Contributed unit and functional tests to Tendrl, the monitoring system for Red Hat Gluster Storage</li>
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			<p><b>BU IT Help Center</b>, Boston, MA</p>
			<p><i>&nbspDesktop Services Student Technician</i>, Feb 2016 - Sept 2018</p>
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				<li>Offered Tier-1 on-site support for walk-in clients at three BU schools/colleges, and campus-wide support for University students, staff, and faculty at the central IT center</li>
				<li>Experience with IT service management software ServiceNow, print management software PaperCut, and high stakes assessment software SofTest</li>
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			<a href="https://www.ding.com/"><img src="/assets/img/ding.png" align="right" style="width: 225px; height: 90px;"></a>
			<p><b>Ding</b>, Dublin, Ireland</p>
			<p><i>&nbspSupport Desk Intern</i>, June 2017 - Aug 2017</p>
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				<li>Collaborated closely with Support Desk Administrator to provide worldwide user support for over 200 company employees in 8 different offices</li>
				<li>Utilized a variety of IT administrative tools such as Active Directory, Lansweeper, Microsoft Office 365 and Skype for Business Admin Centers, and Track-It to maintain company accounts and machines</li>
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		<h3>Work with Higher Education</h3>
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			<p><b>Boston University Spark!</b>, Boston, MA</p>
			<p><i>&nbspLecturer</i>, Sept 2022 - Dec 2022</p>
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				<li>Co-instructed DS/CS 519 - “Spark! Software Engineering X-Lab Practicum” course, which was designed to give students the opportunity to work on real-world software projects from partner clients in the Boston area, providing them with practical software engineering experience prior to entering the work force</li>
				<li>Shared responsibility for writing course content, grading, and conducting lectures and office hours</li>
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			<p><i>&nbspMentor</i>, Jan 2020 - Dec 2021</p>
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				<li>Mentored several teams of students throughout different semesters for HUB XCC 475 - "Spark! Technology Innovation Fellowship"</li>
				<li>Advised students on technical stacks and project workflows as they went through the development process of creating a web application</li>
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			<p><b>Tufts University</b>, Medford, MA</p>
			<p><i>&nbspGuest Lecturer</i>, Nov 2019 - Oct 2020</p>
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				<li>Gave guest lecture for Tufts University Computer Science course COMP118 - "Cloud Computing" in Fall 2020. Spoke to students about OpenStack - what it is, how it works, and where it fits into the world of cloud computing</li>
				<li>Gave guest lecture for Tufts University Computer Science course COMP150 - "Debugging Cloud Computing" in Fall 2019. Spoke to students about "Debugging at the Application Level" and the Quality Engineering process used at Red Hat for Red Hat OpenStack Platform, one of the Red Hat cloud computing offerings</li>
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			<p><b>UMass Lowell</b>, Lowell, MA</p>
			<p><i>&nbspJudge</i>, April 2020</p>
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				<li>Served on panel of judges for Final Projects of CS3500 - "Internet of Things"</li>
				<li>Judged students' final projects based on a variety of categories including Creativity and Commercial Viability</li>
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		<h3>Leadership & Activities</h3>
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			<p><b>TransitMatters</b></p>
			<p><i>&nbspVolunteer</i>, Sept 2020 - Present</p>
			<p><i>&nbspLabs Co-Lead</i>, Nov 2023 - Nov 2024</p>
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				<li>Contribute and review code for a variety of open-source TM Labs applications, such as the <a href="https://traintracker.transitmatters.org/">New Train Tracker</a> and <a href="https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/">Data Dashboard</a></li>
				<li>Wrote initial CI and CD systems for several TM Labs applications using free open-source tools such as GitHub Actions and Ansible to automatically lint and deploy applications to AWS EC2 and Lambda, allowing us to minimize cloud compute overhead costs to the organization</li>
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			<p><b>Boston University Club Cross Country and Track</b></p>
			<p><i>&nbspRecreational Team Chair</i>, June 2017 - Dec 2018</p>
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				<li>Elected by Executive Board to be Recreational Team Chair in June 2017, reelected by entire club in December 2017</li>
				<li>Represented all non-competitive club members on E-Board</li>
				<li>Tasked with leading recreational runs and nominating Recreational Team Captains</li>
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