Resume - Scout

Software Engineer

Amazon (Wickr @ AWS)

May 2022 – Jan 2023

New York, NY

Conducted comprehensive macOS and iOS development & client testing using Xcode, attaching debuggers, inspecting logs, and managing multi-environment build configurations to validate encryption, signaling, and media-streaming integrity.
Investigated real-time communication performance by capturing and analyzing UDP/TCP traffic, latency, packet-loss metrics, and codec performance (H.264/Opus), documenting root-cause analyses to inform network stack optimizations.
Automated internal support workflows through C# and Bash scripts integrating with Jira REST APIs, JSON configs, and AWS SDKs, reducing manual triage time.
Represented the Wickr engineering team in cross-functional post-incident reviews, summarizing client-side findings and proposing systemic fixes to backend and infrastructure teams.
Authored detailed developer onboarding and environment-setup documentation spanning macOS, Windows, and Linux toolchains, reducing ramp-up time for new engineers by 40%.

Almaworks Accelerator Fellow

Clip.Bike - Columbia Business School

Jun 2020 – August 2020

New York, NY

Led initiative for the startup to pursue B Corporation certification, 1% for the Planet membership, and other sustainability credentials, aligning product mission with ESG best practices.
Designed and refined customer survey strategies using quantitative and qualitative metrics to optimize pilot feedback and product-market fit; created web content and environmental impact narratives to communicate product sustainability to investors and consumers, improving engagement and brand credibility.

Researcher

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory @ Columbia University

May 2019 – March 2020

New York, NY

Analyzed >1 TB of climate-model and observational datasets using Python (NumPy, pandas, xarray) to investigate ocean heat transport and atmospheric circulation patterns.
Visualized multi-dimensional data with matplotlib; identified key spatial correlations between temperature, salinity, and current variability, contributing to publishable findings.
Presented research at the Ocean Sciences Meeting (invited talk), engaging an audience of academic and industry professionals.

CS Jones; S Jiang & RP Abernathey (2024) A Comparison of Diagnostics for AMOC heat transport applied to the CESM large ensemble. Lamont-Doherty Earth Science Institute, Columbia University, Palisades NJ
Jiang, S., Hastings, H. & Negassa, N. (2018, November). Oscillatory Dynamics of Small Arrays of Neural Networks. Poster session presented at the IEEE Undergraduate Research Technology Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Postforge.me

Nov 2025

Owned the entire project as a solo contractor: an AI-powered social media dashboard for Public School 15 NYC.
Designed an automated workflow where emails forwarded to a Mailgun webhook are digested, stored in the database, and processed into AI-generated social media posts using Claude API with prompt templates, filtering, and post-processing.
Stack: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Express, Drizzle ORM, and Supabase for authentication and row-level access control. Service deployed on Render VPS.

FantasyMarket @ Wondrous Dev

Oct 2025

Contributed to a Telegram-based trading bot for Polymarket; scoped & implemented a points system for user rewards+ cashback, with backend logic to process trades and maintain accurate reward balances; supported integration of Polymarket API for trades
Exposure to: deFi, socialFi, blockchain, web3 knowledge pools. Stack: Privy.io for auth & wallet, openAI SDK, Redis, Axios, Zod for schema validation, Grammy framework for Telegram bots, ethers.js ethereum library

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