My name is Richard! Currently, I'm a student at UIUC majoring in Computer Science with a deep interest in systems related software, including Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, and performance. In my past experience, I have worked with audio performance on Android at TikTok and cloud infrastructure at State Farm.

2024 — 2024DatadogSoftware Engineer Intern

2024 — 2024

New York, New York, United States

2024 — 2024DatabricksSoftware Engineer Intern

2024 — 2024

San Francisco, California, United States

Worked on migrating clusters related RPCs to Azure Track 2 SDK. Prototyped Azure's preview Compute Fleet API.

2023 — 2023TikTokSoftware Engineer Intern

2023 — 2023

San Jose, California, United States

Created a new native audio player for Android using the AAudio API, Java, and C++ to reduce compatibility bugs with older Android devices while improving audio latency metrics.

2022 — 2022State Farm ®Software Engineer Intern

2022 — 2022

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Used Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes to establish critical infrastructure for the Customer Data Events team to facilitate the transition from on premise data centers to AWS.

Developed Python scripts for automated application relationship discovery and migration insights.

2020 — 2021Code NinjasTutor

2020 — 2021

Libertyville, Illinois, United States

Instructed groups of students with projects including Scratch, JavaScript, Roblox/Lua, and Unity.

Guided summer camps on drone programming and website.

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Science - BS