Backend Development: Engineered backend API updates to transition a legacy system to a new PostgreSQL database, improving load times by 10%. Data Management: Designed and implemented PostgreSQL database schemas for volunteers, organizations, and application data, enhancing data management capabilities. Frontend Integration: Collaborated with frontend teams to integrate APIs and develop new web pages using React, SCSS, and StorybookJS.

Junior Software Engineer (Full-stack Developer) at EPAM Systems

April 1, 2023 - April 1, 2023

API Development: Optimized Airflow ETL data pipelines for an internal analytics dashboard, scaling Python scripts to reduce execution time from minutes to seconds. Data Transformation: Transformed unstructured data from MongoDB into a structured format for a machine learning training pipeline. Frontend Development: Developed responsive UI components for a supplier portal using ReactJS and TypeScript, and restructured component rendering to reduce load time by 25%.

Student Assistant Application at George Washington University

December 1, 2023 - December 1, 2023

Integrated OpenAI's GPT-4 with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to process user queries, enhancing conversational interactions. Enhanced search accuracy by 30% by implementing semantic search using all-MinILM-L6-v2 sentence embeddings and FAISS, optimizing the retrieval of contextually relevant information. Built the frontend with React and backend using FastAPI, addressing algorithmic challenges in semantic search. Spearheaded full-stack development with React, Python (LangChain, FAISS, FastAPI), and Whisper for audio processing, ensuring seamless integration.

Backend Developer at Democracy Labs

March 1, 2025 - October 28, 2025

Backend Development: Engineered backend API updates to transition a legacy system to a new PostgreSQL database, improving load times by 10%. Implemented API enhancements and database migrations to support new features and scale.

Student Assistant at George Washington University

December 31, 2023 - December 31, 2023

Integrated OpenAI's GPT-4 with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to process user queries, enhancing conversational interactions. Enhanced search accuracy by 30% using semantic search with all-miniLM-L6-v2 embeddings and FAISS; optimized retrieval of content. Built the frontend with React and backend using FastAPI, addressing algorithmic challenges in semantic search.