👩‍🎓 About Me

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.

Downhill Skateboarding
Snowboarding
Gems and Minerals
Video Games
Blockchain technology
Cuddling my cat
Building Computer Keyboards - See below!

💻 Experience

Software Engineer Associate

Nov 2023 - Current

UPMC

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.

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

Tackle.io

Remote

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.

Malware Analyst Intern

Jan 2023 - Mar 2023

National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA)

Pittsburgh, PA

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.

🖥️ Projects

AWS Proxy Vault

A reverse proxy server that securely stores customer AWS credentials in a PostgreSQL database and facilitates interactions with AWS services on behalf of customers
Developed during internship at Tackle.io
Implemented with Python + AWS-Boto3 + HTTPX + ASGI server + PostgreSQL

Mal-Monthly

A web application that pulls malware data from an API, organizing and displaying it in a searchable and sortable table.
Developed during internship at the NCFTA.
Implemented with JavaScript + NodeJS + ExpressJS + Bootstrap + HTML/CSS

Secure File-Sharing Application

Secure group-based file sharing application that is secure against a number of different types of security threats.
A semester-long group project to apply cryptographic and security concepts to a multiple server file-sharing application.
Implemented with Java + Bouncy Castle + Swing + Cryptography

Interest

A semester-long group project built with 2 other teammates.
A web application that calculates your student loan payments
Provides an amortization table of payments, a loan summary, and a loan safety ratio (will the student be able to pay back this loan with their expected salary after graduation)
Implemented with React + Java

Meow Match

Meow Match is a Cat Cafe website/"business"
Frontend website currently in development
Implemented with VueJS + Python Django + SQLite

Sorting Algorithm Visualizer

gif of bars being sorted using bubble sort

Sorting algorithms visualized with Python

Typing Test for Kids

Inspired by my niece who is learning how to type and I will soon start teaching her how to code
Implemented with JavaScript + HTML/CSS

Memory Game

Matching card game implemented with JavaScript

Simon Says in Assembly

Simon says childhood game implemented with assembly code

Simon Says game implemented in Mips with assembly code

Kill Bill: Hypertext

A hypertextual narrative adventure into the famous fight scene from Kill Bill Vol 1: Showdown at the House of Blue Leaves
My first ever experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

⛓️ Blockchain Projects

Yield Aggregator

A dApp that chooses the greater yield between Compound & Aave and accrues that yield onto the balance
User can withdraw into their browser wallet at any time
Implemented with Solidity, React, and Web3.js

NFT Card Matching

Card matching game where winners receive NFTs to their browser wallet
Implemented with Solidity and JavaScript

Dioptase NFT

My own personal NFT named after my favorite mineral, Dioptase
Hosted on Solana with Linode

🧰 Development Tools

Git, Jira, CICD
Linux
AWS, Boto3
FastAPI
NodeJS, ExpressJS
React
ViteJS, threeJS
SQL
Python Django
jUnit testing
Postman, Selenium, VisualVM

📚 Education

University of Pittsburgh

Applied Cryptography and Network Security
Data Structures and Algorithms 2
Software Engineering
Programming for Web Applications
Operating Systems
Composing Digital Media
Software Quality Assurance
Computer Organization and Assembly Language
Intro to Systems Software
Data Structures

Carnegie Mellon University

Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Applications

Community College of Allegheny County

Object Oriented Programming - Java
Python Programming