Alexa Product Entitlement Service (Tier-1, Alexa+ subscription)

* Core engineer on a Tier-1 entitlement service supporting customer-facing Alexa subscription access.

* Designed and delivered high-throughput APIs with strong backward compatibility for partner integrations.

* Built a precompute pipeline to reduce request-path work and improve service performance under load.

* Launched a configurable rule engine to externalize policy logic and speed up subscription changes.

* Owned on-call readiness and operational excellence mechanisms (dashboards, alarms, runbooks, reviews).

* Partnered with PM/TPM/QA and peer teams to launch and operate new subscription capabilities.

Alexa Food / Kitchen Experiences (Echo Show + voice)

* Built end-to-end Alexa experiences across device UI (APL) and backend services (Java/AWS).

* Owned a request-routing service layer to handle voice traffic and return personalized content.

* Designed serverless workflows for content/data processing to improve reliability and reduce manual ops.

* Mentored junior engineers and supported team execution as a Scrum lead (planning, reviews, delivery).

I tutor students in COSC 1. Introduction to Programming and Computation (Python), assisting them with labs, short assignments and preparing for exams. I also work as a teaching assistant for COSC 52. Full-Stack Web Development (JavaScript, HTML/CSS, React/Redux, Express/MongoDB). I attend a staff meeting each week to help plan the course, create new course content and provide input to create an interesting experience for the students. I provide office help hours 3 hours per week to assist with homework and class topics. I help with grading quizzes and homework and attend various classes to help guide students through in-class exercises and workshops.

This past summer, I worked as a Software Design Engineer intern at TripIt, SAP Concur’s Travel Organization app. I developed code for TripIt’s infrastructure using Python, AWS, Docker and MySQL, focusing on increasing backend security by implementing the automation of rotating database credentials. I worked closely with, and incorporated feedback from product management, mobile and other back-end engineers using agile development.

Throughout my internship I learned about using different AWS resources and how they can be integrated with backend security. My team used service-oriented architecture, so I gained experience with this style of software design and was able to investigate a service more fully throughout my project. I became skilled with all aspects of the deployment process, as well as an agile work environment. It was valuable to experience these new technologies while working with a mentor to help familiarize me with infrastructure programming. I was given independence throughout my project to determine what steps were the most necessary and worked through the process of implementing something entirely new. At the end of my internship, my code was in production and I was able to offer guidance to other full-time developers interested in incorporating my backend security code within their own services.

During my 2018 Engineering Internship at Upside Commerce, I focused on further developing the core code of the myUpside mobile application using JavaScript, React and Redux. I worked closely with a team of two other engineers to modify the user interface and make the user experience more intuitive.

This internship was extremely meaningful because I was able to directly apply the concepts and skills that I had learned in the Dartmouth course Full-Stack Web Development to what I was working on at Upside Commerce. Translating what I had done in the classroom to a full-scale mobile application challenged me to expand from what I had learned and made me excited to solve new problems every day. At Upside Commerce, I was also exposed to all the different facets of a startup by attending companywide meetings each week, learning about both the business and technical sides, and having the opportunity to invest in a startup company.