Software Engineer at Square
2021 — Now
San Francisco, California, United States
2018 — 2020
Houston, Texas
Provided additional learning support to students by holding weekly office hours
Assisted with grading homework and exams
Courses:
COMP 310 (Advanced Object-Oriented Programming) - Fall 2020
COMP 140 (Computational Thinking) - Fall 2018
2020 — 2020
Created UI components in Ember for transfer of account ownership, a top feature request by Square merchants
Built a Ruby on Rails API endpoint to automate verification of account transfer eligibility
Designed, developed, and A/B tested an address autocomplete feature using Ember to increase onboarding rates
Built the backend for an express delivery Vue app with Express and MongoDB during Intern Hack Week
2019 — 2019
Sunnyvale, CA
Developed a tool to help on-callers make informed decisions about diverting service traffic away from data centers
Designed and implemented a load balancing algorithm that optimizes lowest average latency per query
Worked across the full stack on a Django app implementing features with Python, JavaScript, and Dremel
2018 — 2018
Houston, Texas Area
Head developer on team to make an audiobooks Android app, placing first in OpenStax’s Intern Design Challenge
Utilized Amazon Polly to convert parsed textbook XML files to audio
Used markup languages (CNXML, MathML) to create and maintain content across the different platforms of OpenStax, such as CNX and iBooks
Rice University
Clements High School