Career

Experience

Sales Associate & Website Designer - Chadwick & Son Orchids

Richmond, VA February 2026 – Present

  • Managing storefront operations while working directly with customers and community members to serve their needs
  • Leading efforts to update company website and branding to better serve both the users and the business
Software Engineer - Consultant - CapTech Consulting

Richmond, VA September 2025 – February 2026

  • Served as deputy tech lead on a team of 6 to assist a Fortune 100 banking company in modernizing their ETL pipeline for essential, customer-facing data
  • Migrated existing workflow through custom-built data governance extensions on Apache Spark, utilizing PySpark, AWS EMR, Docker, Redwood Orchestration, Snowflake SQL, and custom shell scripting
Software Engineer - Consultant - CapTech Consulting

Richmond, VA April 2025 – July 2025

  • Worked on a team of about 10 to 15 to assist a Fortune 100 banking company in implementing new features and components for an internal-facing application focused on facilitating Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) deals
  • Ensured compliance with security best practices by mitigating security vulnerabilities in TypeScript, .NET, Go, and Python repositories and released patches to resolve vulnerabilities in containerized Docker images
Software Engineer - Associate Consultant - CapTech Consulting

Richmond, VA September 2023 – December 2024

  • Worked with a team of over 40 people to assist a Fortune 100 banking company in migrating data to a proprietary, governed data lake platform built on AWS, utilizing Scala, Apache Spark, Python, Docker, AWS S3, DynamoDB, Step Functions, and Apache Airflow
  • Transitioned between multiple Lines of Business throughout the project's duration, working with unfamiliar technologies each cycle
Software Assistance Triage (SWAT) Technician - Virginia Tech College of Engineering

Blacksburg, VA August 2019 – May 2023

  • As Senior Technician, led the team of 10 to 15 other employees to handle incidents related to both hardware and software issues, and managed loaner laptops for students
  • Led efforts during the transition to remote support during the COVID-19 pandemic

Volunteering

Co-Chair, Music Programming Committee - WRIR-LP 97.3FM

Richmond, VA November 2024 – February 2026

  • Served as co-chair of the Music Programming Committee, which is responsible for all shows on air, training new DJs, and maintaining FCC compliance

Education

Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Art and Technology - University of Oklahoma

Norman, OK (Online) August 2025 – May 2027 4.0/4.0

Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science - Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA 2019 – 2023 3.895/4.0 (3.909 in major)

Skills

Data and cloud
  • Apache Spark
  • PySpark
  • Scala
  • Apache Airflow
  • AWS (S3, EMR, DynamoDB, Step Functions)
  • Snowflake SQL
  • Redwood Orchestration
  • Docker
Languages
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Go
  • Scala
  • .NET
  • C++
  • SQL
  • shell scripting
Web and tooling
  • Angular
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Strapi
  • Redis
  • GitHub Pages
Design and interface
  • Figma
  • interface and visual design practice
  • design-to-code implementation in Angular
  • Next.js and React
Creative computing
  • Unity
  • PICO-8
  • GameMaker
  • Godot
  • Processing and p5.js
  • Panic Playdate
  • custom shaders
  • 3D rendering fundamentals
  • FPGA emulation
  • retro hardware repair
AI and agent harness engineering
  • pi
  • local model inference via oMLX
  • NeuralWatt
  • LangChain
  • LLM API integration
  • retrieval-augmented generation
  • LanceDB
  • embeddings
  • prompt engineering
  • Kagi web search integration
  • classifier-model verification gates