Experience

Timeline of internships and hands-on engineering work.

  1. August 2026 – December 2026

    Backend Software Engineer Intern

    TikTok

    Owned account safety backend work across moderation pipelines, link safety migrations, and production releases.

    • Developed and maintained account profile moderation pipelines in Golang using RPC and Kafka for automated account safety enforcement
    • Architected and implemented link safety pipeline migrations across billions of users with Redis, MySQL, and Kubernetes
    • Designed backend architecture for account safety features, defining microservice interfaces, data flows, and failure-handling strategies
    • Owned production releases for account safety features, monitoring service health with Grafana

  2. January 2026 – August 2026

    Software Development Engineer in Test Intern

    TikTok

    Built automated test coverage, CI/CD reliability, analytics pipelines, and FastAPI workflow bots.

    • Developed automated test suites in Python, TypeScript, and Golang achieving full P0 and 95% P1 coverage
    • Configured CI/CD pipelines that improved system reliability and uptime by 25%
    • Engineered a TypeScript and Python analytics pipeline integrating SQL sources, cutting ~10 hours of weekly manual reporting
    • Architected internal FastAPI bots that accelerated release unblocking by 20%

  3. May 2025 – December 2025

    Full Stack Software Engineer Intern

    Synapxe

    Shipped healthcare full-stack and computer vision systems across Azure, Angular, FastAPI, and Flutter.

    • Collaborated with ML engineers to deploy YOLOv8 computer vision models with Azure and Docker
    • Integrated Angular front-end with FastAPI back-end for clinical trial apps, cutting inference latency by 50%
    • Used Redis and RabbitMQ message brokers to increase throughput by 50%
    • Built a React app for smart glasses with IMU sensors for neurodegenerative signal detection
    • Spearheaded a Flutter sandbox for on-device CV execution, reducing development time by 80%

  4. January 2023 – June 2023

    Software Testing Intern

    Razer

    Built device emulation and automated test infrastructure for Razer Synapse releases.

    • Developed virtual device emulation protocols that reduced physical hardware dependencies by 60%
    • Designed and executed 50+ test suites with Python, Selenium, and Robot Framework
    • Automated smoke test reporting with TestRail and Jenkins
    • Triaged and resolved 40+ critical pre-release bugs with cross-functional teams via Jira