Final-year computer science student at CMU with a senior capstone in distributed messaging and a summer internship on payments infrastructure. Looking for a new-grad backend role on a small platform team.

• Senior Capstone, Realtime Messaging Layer

  Carnegie Mellon University • Pittsburgh, PA

  Sep 2025 — Present

  • Built the messaging layer of a four-person senior capstone in TypeScript and Redis, sustaining 40 concurrent connections and sub-200ms median delivery in classroom testing.
  • Designed the durability story: messages persist to Postgres on receipt and replay on reconnect; one of two capstones the department selected for the spring industry showcase.
  • Wrote the team's API design doc and the integration guide the front-end pair worked from.

• Software Engineering Intern

  Stripe • Seattle, WA

  May 2025 — Aug 2025

  • Shipped a tool for the payments-infra team that flags retry storms in customer billing webhooks; in production by week 8 of the internship and still in use.
  • Wrote the runbook the on-call rotation now uses when the tool fires.

• Course Assistant, Distributed Systems

  Carnegie Mellon University • Pittsburgh, PA

  Jan 2025 — May 2025

  • Held weekly office hours for 60 students; graded the consensus and replication assignments.
  • Authored two new test cases for the Raft project; both are now in the standard grader.

• Carnegie Mellon University

  BS • Computer Science

  May 2026

  • Coursework: Distributed Systems, Database Systems, Compilers, Operating Systems, Algorithms.
  • GPA 3.84.