Work

September 2026 – April 2027

• Facilitate tours within McMaster University to help inform the decisions of potential McMaster applicants

July 2026 - August 2026

• Represented the Embark program as its nominated ambassador, meeting with executives and sponsors to showcase the program's business impact and talent-acquisition value

• Built and shipped an in-house cache, replacing a third-party API dependency hit by 10M+ daily banking app logins. This reduced lookup time from 200ms to 6ms per request and daily compute from an estimated 500 hours to 15 hours

• Designed a two-tier store serving reads from Redis (1–2ms) with automatic failover to MongoDB (5–7ms). This maximizes latency mitigation while also ensuring the data stores are write-safe and persistent

• Directed AI tools through implementation while owning architecture, review, and validation; load-tested to 8M records at 500 requests/second, roughly 2x production peak, cutting full dataset refresh to 2m18s against a 5-minute target

July 2025 - August 2025: During this month-long full-time co-op, I was involved with 3 independent departments of Vineland: Horticulture Technology Solutions, Biological Crop Protection, and Plant Responses and the Environment. To be successful in each, communication, time management, and even strategically planning the long walks across campus were crucial.

• Independently designed and built a motorized stage and camera system that quantifies thrips populations under a microscope

• Redesigned urban forestry planting documents to precisely reflect the most efficacious care procedures

• Evaluated the synergy of dicyphus and various pesticides in controlling pest populations