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• Founded curbside glass-pickup business with brother at age 17 to meet demand after Falls Church City stopped providing municipal glass recycling service, later incorporated, set up customer accounts and mailing/billing with limited reliance on third-party services

• Leveraged digital advertising and print/radio media (NBC, WAMU, NowThis) to grow customer base to over 100 residential households; online stories about business reached 550k+ views, with 5k+ reactions

• Administered all business enterprises including expansion into commercial space, winning ‘Best of Falls Church’ award in second year

• Acquired in 2025 by the largest glass recycling business in the area, and converted over 80% of customers to the new platform

• Large-scale geospatial dataset analysis and federated data storage on HPC

• AnvilGPT semantic dataset search

see: https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/compute/anvil

• Developed a Webex bot to streamline the initiation, monitoring, testing, and analysis of operating system builds for various network switches, merging multiple API endpoints into a unified tool

• Implemented a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system using a vector database and Llama 3.1, integrating it with the bot to automate error resolution for failed, large token, logs, creating significant time savings for 25+ engineers

• Consolidated bug tracking and operating system test-suite data in Elasticsearch, creating dashboards to monitor and visualize key metrics

• Prototyped new, cloud-based, extract transform load (ETL) pipeline for the Deep Space Network (DSN) Service Quality Assessment subsystem, supporting DSN usage analysis for NASA missions like Mars 2020, and Voyager

• Shifted on-premises scripts, triggers, logging, storage, and more to Amazon Web Services, notably achieving end-to-end performance for an ETL pipeline providing detail on the automatic provision of DSN equipment

• Enhanced error management, data transparency, and throughput to data warehouse while reducing dependencies

• Presented architecture to senior JPL engineers, was retained to upgrade 12 ETL pipelines during the academic year