Software Engineer (Contract) at Ramp

Backend engineer on Ramp's Travel team, building systems powering flight, hotel, and car bookings for 50,000+ businesses. Implemented fault-tolerant retry logic for unreliable external APIs, built a real-time policy enforcement engine to validate travel requests against spend rules, designed a high-performance PostgreSQL reporting backend with indexed aggregations and materialized views, containerized microservices on AWS with Docker, and implemented CI/CD pipelines for zero-downtime releases. Also developed a foundation for AI-assisted travel planning using embeddings and metrics, and established end-to-end observability with structured logs and latency dashboards, achieving high uptime.

Graduate Student Assistant at University of Maryland Baltimore County

Supported software engineering curriculum by building automated test infrastructure across Python, JavaScript, and Java. Built and maintained test suites (Jest/JUnit/Pytest), increased average test coverage from under 40% to over 75%, reviewed 50+ pull requests weekly to enforce quality, and automated CI/CD pipelines for student projects, cutting manual verification time by 70% and standardizing feedback. Documented reusable testing patterns used by 30+ students.