Experience

Thorlabs is a photonics equipment manufacturer. I'm on the internal tools team building APIs and services that support production and manufacturing workflows.

• Designed a Cosmos DB-first caching pattern for the MESLite API in C# and Azure Functions, with custom mappers, DTOs, exception handling, and a dedicated ProductionOrderClient, cutting redundant database calls and speeding up API response times
• Replaced untyped settings access with strongly-typed configuration classes across the Uploads API, reducing runtime configuration errors
• Built serverless Azure Functions integrated with Cosmos DB and Microsoft Graph API for end-to-end document ingestion and retrieval, including SharePoint URL parsing
• Added production order number filtering to the ProductionOrders API
• Authored xUnit tests using Moq to mock dependencies and validate service logic, supporting PR review workflows in Azure DevOps

Sports Media is a SaaS company that helps sports news outlets manage and optimize their content. I joined the AI team to work on their recommendation and content automation systems.

• Built a Python recommendation engine using collaborative filtering, improving content engagement ~15% across 500+ daily articles
• Automated an NLP-based content tagging pipeline, cutting manual tagging time 40%
• Boosted organic traffic 20% via technical SEO fixes; wrote a test suite reducing production bugs 30%

Real estate development company building residential and commercial properties in the NYC area. Worked with operations to improve technology across construction projects.

• Managed Procore workflows for 4 active projects, maintaining 95% data accuracy for documents, schedules, RFIs, and submittals
• Debugged and resolved 10+ integration issues between Procore and accounting/scheduling software, reducing manual data entry errors by 15%
• Built automated QC checklists that sped up inspection-to-approval by about 10%

• Mentor 25+ first-year students through study strategies, time management, and navigating college
• Run study sessions and workshops on note-taking and managing stress before exams

• Ran technical workshops on web scraping, API integration, and data analysis
• Managed consulting teams delivering solutions for real startups

• Maintained network infrastructure — routers, switches, access points across 40+ rooms — at 98% uptime
• Managed the property management system, including integrations with Expedia and Booking.com
• Handled 100+ check-ins per week