Experience

Professional Experience

KOINSLOT Inc. (2024 - Present)

KOINSLOT Inc. develops Kywy, a handheld “low-code” educational coding device designed to make programming accessible and fun for learners.

My Role: Software Engineer

As a software engineer, I contribute to:

• Developing complete games for the Kywy platform
• Creating custom rotation algorithms for sprite rendering
• Building asset-generation scripts in C++
• Optimizing code for embedded hardware constraints

Kondra Chemical (2025)

Kondra Chemical specializes in water quality analysis and chemical measurement solutions.

My Role: App Developer (Independent Contract)

I designed, built, tested, and delivered a complete LabView application:

• Hardware control for spectrometer interfacing
• Real-time data acquisition from measurement devices
• Concentration interpolation algorithms for chemical analysis
• Full end-to-end solution delivery

UC Berkeley & NC State University (2019 - 2025)

Research institutions where I conducted my doctoral research in computational astrophysics.

My Role: Supernova Physicist / Ph.D. Researcher

• Utilized high-fidelity MHD FORTRAN 3D supernova code on distributed HPC systems
• Explored the role of turbulent plasma flow in supernova evolution
• Developed Python scripts for data analysis and publication figures
• Adapted numerical solvers for nonlinear PDEs with constraint-preserving methods

Insightsoftware (2018 - 2019)

Insightsoftware provides enterprise performance management and financial reporting solutions.

My Role: Business Systems Analyst

• Planned and executed data migrations for multiple acquired companies
• Leveraged SQL and SOQL to perform data migrations into Salesforce
• Managed projects on short timescales with multiple stakeholders

North Carolina State University - Physics IT (2015 - 2018)

The Physics Department at NC State University, where I began my career in IT.

My Role: IT Systems Administrator

• Co-managed IT operations for the Physics Department as one of two team members
• Implemented test environments in Docker
• Gained fluency in Linux systems administration
• Supported faculty, staff, and students with technical needs

Skills & Expertise

• High-performance computing and parallel programming
• Scientific software development
• Data migration and systems integration
• Embedded systems and game development
• Hardware-software integration