Selected Work

Build Ship Learn

A quick look at the projects, internships, and infrastructure work that best show how I build software, solve technical problems, and work with production-minded systems.

Cloud, DevOps & Security
Cloud, DevOps & Security Lead Engineer

Educe.club

Leading infrastructure, deployment, and application security work for an insight and note tracking web app built for organizing, sharing, and revisiting ideas.

Technologies

AWS

TypeScript

Bun

Nginx

CI/CDAuth securityBuild optimization
  • Implemented an AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild CI/CD flow that replaced a manual backend deployment process with a reliable 4-minute release cycle
  • Moved auth logic to backend APIs with in-memory access tokens, HttpOnly refresh cookies, and request queueing for concurrent token refreshes
  • Implemented front-end and back-end product features while reducing frontend build time by 66% through dependency cleanup and a switch from npm to Bun
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Cloud homelab
Cloud Networking & Self-Hosted Infrastructure

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

A hands-on OCI environment built around public/private subnet design, secure service exposure, and self-hosted identity and application workloads.

Technologies

OCI

OpenClaw

Nginx

Cloudflare DNS

Public/private subnetsReverse proxyFirewall rules
  • Provisioned one VM in a public subnet for AliasVault password and identity management with a personal domain for email alias creation
  • Provisioned a second VM in a private subnet for OpenClaw, with the public VM acting as the controlled tunnel into private services
  • Configured Nginx proxies, port forwarding, UFW firewall rules, and OCI ingress/egress security lists to expose only intended traffic
Security research
Software Security Research Intern

Rochester Institute of Technology

Research tooling for mapping open-source projects to known vulnerabilities and identifying likely vulnerability-introducing commits.

Technologies

Python

GraphQL

MongoDB

Ollama

CVE mappingCommit analysisLocal LLM
  • Built a Python pipeline that analyzed 3,400+ GitHub projects and mapped them to CVEs using data from the National Vulnerability Database
  • Automated extraction of commit hashes and messages linked to known vulnerabilities for downstream security analysis
  • Ran a locally hosted Ollama LLM to match CVE descriptions to commit messages and improve vulnerability timeline identification
Enterprise software
Software Development Intern

Quality Vision International

Software development and QA work on a C# ASP.NET application in a precision-focused engineering environment.

Technologies

C#

ASP.NET

SQL

TFS

QA testingStored procedures
  • Identified and resolved 100+ bugs through systematic manual testing, defect tracking, and targeted fixes
  • Developed and validated stored procedures for database migration while preserving data integrity
  • Optimized SQL queries and C# database logic, then managed source control and deployment workflows with TFS