Incorporate feedback from students and TAs to provide better learning and teaching experience

Led the initiative to add collaborative office hours, leading to collaborative learning and enjoyable homework experience

Added automation to manual checking of 2 homework problems, reducing time per TA by 2 hours on grading

Graded homework and exams

Taught labs with 25+ students with engaging and humorous presentations

Accumulated 1566 Karma points (a system to keep track of contributions) on our class discussion forum

Created dozens of memes related to content taught in class to increase engagement

Held office hours to

Developed 3 new homework problems, designing new data structures/algorithms for students to implement, and used git and pull requests to maintain our large homework code base

Led initiative to improve the readability and cleanliness of our code database and online queue system

Added automatic approvals to our team’s workflows, saving 10 hours every time they deployed a change

Migrated and simplified our team’s testing infrastructure from Ruby to Typescript, using 50% fewer testing resources, having 10x faster startup time, and 10x fewer lines of code

Designed a new scalable testing framework, integrating with AWS, Jest, and Puppeteer to test our team’s services

Collaborated with my team to determine pain points of current testing architecture

They proxy requests between customers and service consoles, as well as provide a default region service.

Deployed an internal AWS console that allows our team to run health checks and unit tests

Implemented a canary using Javascript Puppeteer, which runs a test every minute to efficiently determine whether our team’s services are working

Communicated with various teams to conduct security reviews and console deployments

Worked with large code bases in Ruby to automate creating part of our team’s 1000s of AWS resources