Software Engineer
West Linn, Oregon
Software engineer with experience across backend and full-stack development, building data-intensive systems and tooling for high-stakes domains including semiconductor manufacturing and financial services.
Experience
Software Development Engineer I
Jun 2025 — Dec 2025SAIF Corporation
Salem, OR
Delivered backend solutions for core financial and insurance systems at Oregon's largest workers' compensation insurer.
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Engineered corrections to the short-rate cancellations in billing engine, implementing transactional logic using Gosu to prevent erroneous refunds and safeguard $100k+ in annual revenue.
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Refactored a legacy VB.NET actuarial regulatory reporting tool into C#, introducing parallel bulk processing and unit test coverage to reduce turnaround time from days to hours.
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Unblocked new customer acquisition by resolving an address validation issue in the issuance workflow that prevented foreign customers from purchasing policies, enabling seamless onboarding and avoiding manual workarounds.
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Developed BDD scenarios with Cucumber/Gherkin to validate core business workflows, eliminating one week of manual validation and ensuring on-time regulatory compliance for high-stakes releases.
Reliability Engineer Intern
Apr 2024 — Sep 2024MKS Instruments, Inc.
Beaverton, OR
Engineered reliability systems for precision motion and laser systems at a leading semiconductor equipment manufacturer.
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Extended C# .NET test infrastructure for a precision motion control system, leveraging dependency injection to validate against both simulated and physical hardware and improving test result reporting.
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Designed a field failure tracking system and data consolidation pipeline for laser components, processing 10k+ records spanning decades to deliver reliability insights and RCA to leadership, informing warranty projections.
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Engineered Python CLI tool to compress and archive AI computer vision defect detection data from the manufacturing floor, reducing storage needs by 90% and saving $3000+ annually in hardware costs.
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Automated quality metrics reporting across cross-functional teams using Azure dataflows and Power BI backed by Azure Data Lake, eliminating manual entry errors and saving leadership 10+ hours monthly.
Education
Oregon State University
Sep 2021 — Jun 2025- GPA:
3.94; Graduated Summa Cum Laude. - Activities:
AI Club President, Triathlon Club Vice President, Treasurer, and Race Director.
Projects
Agentic Slackbot D&D Assistant
Apr 2026 — PresentAgentic Slackbot for stateful D&D character management and rule adjudication
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Engineered a stateful agentic system that orchestrates multi-step reasoning loops through a custom MCP server, managing persistent character state and ensuring deterministic tool execution for rule adjudication.
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Designed a hybrid retrieval engine combining structured SQL state with vector-based RAG over a comprehensive rulebase, enabling the agent to perform dynamic constraint satisfaction and validate action legality.
Open Response
Real-time student engagement and classroom analytics platform.
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Led a 5-developer Agile team building a scalable React/Express application on AWS, directing sprints and technical architecture while implementing accessibility via UX prototypes and automated testing for WCAG compliance.
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Architected a distributed backend deployed to containerized AWS infrastructure, supporting 10k+ concurrent users under load testing; built CI/CD pipelines to strengthen release reliability.
AI-Powered Hybrid Search Engine
A high-performance local file search engine combining traditional keyword search with vector-based semantic retrieval using custom-trained language model embeddings.
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Engineered a hybrid search engine combining keyword and vector-based semantic retrieval using custom-trained embeddings and FAISS, achieving 0.06s latency and 10x faster results than Windows Search for 100k+ files.
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Designed a modular, event-driven AI indexing pipeline with a Redis worker queue, SQLite metadata store, and incremental updates enabling near-real-time synchronization of file changes via semantic embeddings.
Energy Utility Usage and Reliability Data Platform
A curated energy analytics warehouse built for BI.
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Built a multi-source energy analytics platform on Databricks using a full medallion architecture, standardizing energy, weather, and solar data into curated Delta tables with conformed dimensions and hourly/daily fact models.
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Exported curated analytical tables to a dedicated S3 publishing bucket and integrated them with Snowflake using a minimal-IAM storage integration, enabling a Streamlit dashboard to query all data through Snowflake.