KC

Experience

  • Software Engineer Intern @Rubrik

    May 2026 – Present | Palo Alto, CA

    Building React/TypeScript dashboard views for cloud-security alert triage and backup monitoring across multi-cluster deployments, cutting p95 load time 30% with React Suspense, code-splitting, and selective memoization. Refactored GraphQL/Apollo logic across 4 dashboards into shared hooks with normalized caching, which removed roughly half of the duplicated request code and fixed customer-reported cross-view consistency bugs.

  • Software Engineer Intern @Chime

    May 2025 – Dec 2025 | San Francisco, CA

    Shipped TypeScript/Node.js features in a payment microservice processing $1.2M+ in monthly transaction volume, cutting p95 latency 20% through PostgreSQL query-plan tuning and Kubernetes autoscaling. Designed GraphQL/REST contracts and PostgreSQL schemas consumed by 3 internal teams, drove the backward-compatibility review, and shipped Jest tests to 85% coverage. Cut launch-week incident MTTR ~40% by adding structured logging, OpenTelemetry tracing, and Grafana SLO dashboards on the checkout path.

  • Software Engineer Intern @EloStack

    May 2024 – Aug 2024 | Miami, FL

    Cut initial render time 40% on core React workflows through React Profiler analysis, eliminating redundant API calls and applying React.memo and useMemo on hot-path components. Owned React/Node.js features across user onboarding and dashboards in releases tied to a 25% retention lift, reviewed REST API pull requests, and authored shared frontend patterns adopted org-wide.

  • Software Engineer Intern @Sebanda Insurance

    Jan 2024 – Apr 2024 | Miami, FL

    Built a Python/Pandas reporting tool over PostgreSQL views that automated weekly financial reconciliation, saving the finance team about 5 hours a week and cutting data-entry errors 20%.

Awards & Leadership

  • Founder @Code Culture

    Aug 2022 – Present | Miami, FL

    Founded and lead a 4,500+ member student programming community. Organized 8 hackathons and 15+ workshops covering algorithms, systems, web development, and machine learning, and mentored 200+ students on projects and interview preparation.

  • 1st Place @eMerge Americas Hackathon

    University of Miami | Miami, FL

    Built a real-time fraud-detection prototype with Kafka, Python, and a gradient-boosted classifier, benchmarking anomaly detection on 100K simulated transactions.

  • 1st Place @NextEra Energy Hackathon

    Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL

    Trained a 24-hour solar generation forecasting model, an LSTM with weather and seasonality features, that cut MAPE 18% versus a persistence baseline on NextEra's public dataset.

  • 1st Place @Pluto Hacks

    Hackathon | Florida

    Created an in-browser Python and JavaScript coding playground powered by WebAssembly, with real-time collaborative editing built on Yjs CRDTs.

  • 2nd Place @Knight Hacks

    University of Central Florida | Orlando, FL

    Built a Chrome extension that captions and summarizes online lectures using Whisper and a large language model, helping students review 30-minute lectures in a fraction of the time.

Education

  • M.S. Computer Science @Georgia Institute of Technology

    Expected Jun 2027 | Atlanta, GA

    Specializing in Computing Systems with a 3.9/4.0 GPA. Coursework spans Distributed Systems, Advanced Operating Systems, and Database Internals, which is the theory behind the consensus protocols, storage engines, and schedulers I build in my own projects.

  • Bachelors in Computer Science @Florida State University

    Graduated Dec 2025 | Tallahassee, FL

    Graduated summa cum laude with a 3.8/4.0 GPA, earning Dean's List honors every semester. Coursework included Operating Systems, Compilers, Algorithms, Networks, and Computer Architecture. Founded Code Culture, FSU's largest student programming community, along the way.

Skills

Full-Stack
React
Node.js
TypeScript
Go
Python
Next.js
PostgreSQL
GraphQL
Docker
Kubernetes
Redis
AWS
Kafka
SQL
Prometheus
Grafana
Java
C++