Code 💻 Coffee ☕ Cats 🐈 sums up my life as a cat-lover, passionate software developer, innovator, hot bean juice aficionado, and all-around tech geek. You can find me coding away with my furrbaby purring louder than my computer! Most of my very recent (fresh Pitt graduate) professional experience has been in building secure infrastructure using AWS services in Python, including securing sensitive data behind a reverse proxy server utilizing account credentials from a database as well as fine tuning my Java skills in developing highly-secure file sharing applications featuring cryptography and top-notch network security protocols.

Other interests I have include:
• Downhill Skateboarding
• Snowboarding
• Gems and Minerals
• Video Games
• Blockchain technology
• Cuddling my cat
• Building Computer Keyboards - See below!

• Maintained and developed critical features for entire claims and billing system ensuring compliance with HIPAA and industry standards.
• Provided effective support for production issues, identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions.
• Updated technical documentation.

• Designed, developed and deployed a reverse proxy server that securely stores AWS credentials in a PostgreSQL database and facilitates interactions with AWS services on behalf of customers.
• Learned and applied software development best practices; including CICD, agile methodologies/2-week sprints, system design, testing, and more.

• Developed a new malware analysis tool that is in use at the company today.
• Reverse engineered and conducted static and dynamic analysis on malware and ransomware variants.
• Wrote technical reports on malware and ransomware variants that were delivered to 100's of companies and law enforcement agencies around the world.