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experience

Shopify Inc

Sep 2025 – Dec 2025

Software Engineering Intern, Backend · Toronto, ON

RubyGraphQLReactTypeScriptGCPSQLSidekiqBigQuery
  • Software Engineer on the Retail - Inventory, Search & Fulfillment team
  • Architected backend job processing for e-commerce app to bound execution times for 11.2M+ jobs, stabilizing job service times from a variable 2 hrs to a max of 1.1 mins & enabling meaningful alerts with low latency (<20ms)
  • Reduced job wait times by 90% by provisioning GCP worker pods & weighted job queues to optimize server usage
  • Eliminated $34.7M erroneous charges by developing row-level SQL filters to prevent duplicate items during checkout
  • Led team's first API migration & moved pagination from frontend to backend to restore visibility to $1.75M+ GMV
  • Led implementation of feature flag infrastructure with low error rate (<0.1%) to support phased feature rollouts and rollbacks to 8.2k+ merchant stores & enable peer engineers to safely deploy hundreds of PRs

Ciena Corp

Sep 2024 – Sep 2025

Software Engineering Intern, Backend + Infra · Remote, CAN

PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLAWSSQLAlchemyTerraformDataDog
  • Software Engineer on the Productivity Engineering Tools team
  • Designed REST API integrating Rapid7, Armis & ServiceNow to automate vulnerability management with network blocking for non-compliant devices across 4000+ Ciena devices scanned weekly, for use by security team
  • Reduced query times to database from 2,000 ms to 12 ms by using aggregator functions and indexing foreign keys
  • Shipped Atlassian token expiration mail service to preempt authentication failures for 150+ Ciena engineers
  • Wrote 410+ unit tests to increase test coverage from 50% to 88% using unittest and PyTest frameworks
  • Reduced API response latency by 94% by parallelizing queries using Pythonic multi-threading
  • Implemented full system observability with logs, metrics, monitors, and dashboards using Datadog
  • Mentored peer engineers on back-end development and best practices

Jetson Infinity

May 2024 – Aug 2024

Software Engineering Intern · Hamilton, ON

PythonC++OpenCVLlama3YOLOv5Selenium
  • Implemented chatbot for use in Zoom pitches with clients leading to a 75% close rate and generated $60K in revenue
  • Developed 9 AI-based modules for robotic arm to teach OOP concepts to students across high schools in California
  • Developed real-time robotic arm module that accepts user input via natural language processing to perform physical actions (i.e. fold your laundry), using machine learning for object detection

Noze Inc

May 2023 – Aug 2023

Software Engineering Intern · Montreal, QC

PythonC++ReactTypeScript
  • Presented intern project to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to secure $1M grant for the company
  • Spearheaded creation of embedded system to automate quality checks of PCBs, halving time spent on QA
  • Designed PCB selection UI to eliminate manual QA-related errors for 12+ lab technicians, saving $600 daily
  • Developed Standard Operating Procedure and maintained software documentation in an agile environment

McMaster Baja Racing

Sep 2023 – Apr 2024

Data Acquisitions Subteam Member · Hamilton, ON

Student engineering team that designs and builds a single-seater off-road vehicle from scratch to compete in the SAE Baja intercollegiate series.

C++PCBsSolderingElectrical Wiring
  • Designed custom Throttle Position Sensor and enclosure, providing real-time max-acceleration feedback to the driver and achieving <50ms response time during extreme terrain weather conditions

President · Hamilton, ON

AgileProject ManagementTeam LeadershipEvent Planning
  • Led a 22 member team in the planning, marketing and execution of on-campus events and fundraisers
  • Spearheaded initiatives to introduce AI-based tools, resulting in a 30% reduction in time spent on routine tasks
  • Used agile methodologies for project management, leading projects from concept to final implementation