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Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

University of California, Irvine - 2022

Master of Human Computer Interaction and Design

Georgia Institute of Technology - 2019

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Concentrations: Intelligence and Media

Minor in Industrial Design

WORK EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer | Twitter 
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
  • Working on the Scaled Enforcement Tools Team

  • Designed and executed the migration of a legacy tool to advance my organization’s consolidation initiative

  • Improved the architecture of a chrome web extension and implemented 3 new features to enhance bug reporting

  • Provided support for and resolved 10+ bugs and issues to ensure our services were running in a healthy state

  • Implemented, updated, and tested 8+ APIs across several internal tools and services

  • Delivered 2 technical design documents and actively contributed additional documentation for 3+ tools

  • Ensured all our applications authenticate through S2S to enable privacy and data protection between services

  • Utilized TypeScript, JavaScript, ReactJS, Scala, Thrift, and Git

Software Development Engineer | Amazon
Sept 2019 - Sept 2020
  • Developed and tested 4 safety and management service applications used to support sort technology

  • Designed and implemented safety mechanisms to provide authentication and authorization for an android app

  • Improved collection of performance metrics to auto-generate alarms for service monitors

  • Deep dive into operational problems to develop root cause analysis and provide solutions to operational risks

  • Implemented cooldowns mechanisms to prevent throttling of high-impact services

  • Designed and implemented an auditing workflow that supports bulk actions and integration with S3 buckets

  • Technologies used: Java, Ruby, Typescript, ReactJS, AWS

Researcher | Georgia Tech Security, Privacy, Usability, and Design Lab
Aug 2018 - May 2019
  • Designed AI-assistants that use machine learning to make authentication decisions for physical spaces

  • Developed an Android application that handles real-time face recognition using Microsoft Face

  • Utilized Google Firebase for real-time database access and authentication

Research Intern | IBM
May 2018 - Aug 2018
  • Cleansed and provided modeling and analyses of structured and unstructured data for anomaly detection

  • Designed and implemented animated data visualizations with Matplotlib and NetworkX

  • Conducted research on acoustic data using Neural Networks with TensorFlow and Neo4j

Software Developer Intern | IBM
May 2017 - Aug 2017
  • Developed a travel-themed chatbot that collects location and date to provide a weather prediction

  • Developed a poem-generating web application using Watson Tone Analyzer and Natural Language Understanding

  • Used Spark Machine Learning to predict purchases from unfiltered clickstream data with up to 70% accuracy

  • Created two PixieApps that allow easier data query from Postgres and Cloudant databases

PUBLICATIONS

"Generating Poems: A Way with Words and Code", McLeish, Nikole., IBM Watson Data Lab (2017).
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