Mobile Engineering Intern

Solomon Consulting Group, LLC
May 2024 - Aug 2024

• Enabled households to access $100,000+ in savings through energy efficiency incentives and rebates by creating an online home energy assessment tool using data analytics and an advanced fuzzy keyword matching algorithm.
• Connected 500+ low-income households with 100+ minority-owned renewable energy businesses for energy-efficient home upgrades in Massachusetts, Georgia, and North Carolina by developing iOS- and Android-compatible mobile app using React Native.
• Crafted wire-frames for the platform leveraging Figma and findings from user research to improve user engagement and satisfaction.

Co-Founder

Cocoon
Jul 2021 - May 2024

• Co-founded a social platform connecting socially-awkward individuals with personalized AI coaching for social skills improvement.
• Took on leading role in developing a full-stack application that is highly available and could scale to support 300+ active users.
• Attained 96.33% test coverage and 80% increase in development speed by implementing robust CI/CD pipeline and following test-driven development best practices.

Software Engineering Intern

MassEnergize
Jun 2023 - Sep 2023

• Improved accessibility and boosted community participation in climate actions by building the mobile version of the web-based dashboard application, compatible for both iOS and Android users.
• Reduced on-boarding time for future engineers by 75% by collaborating with the back-end team to create a comprehensive API documentation, detailing over 200 API endpoints, data models, system architectures.
• Resolved 10+ high-priority tickets in the back-end system, gaining proficiency in RESTful API development, and SDLC.

@HackUMass & @Hack(H)er413

June 2022 - December 2024 | Amherst, MA

The origin

June, 2022

An Organizer of HackUMass X

After being a participant for many hackathons in high school and winning a few, I decided to take the next step and become an organizer for HackUMass X !

Pre-HackUMass X

July, 2022

Developer/Maintainer of HackUMass X Website

In a team of 7 developers, we were tasked to maintain the website for HackUMass X.
I was the first to resolve more than 15 issues for both the frontend and backend in just 2 weeks into the project!

HackUMass X

Sept, 2022

Mentor/Photographer

During the 36-hour event, I was able to utilize my past experience (as a participant) and skills in Python, JavaScript to help guide the participants in their projects.
I also took the advantage of this opportunity and my hobby for photography to take photos of the event.
Many were so grateful for my help that they asked for a photo with me!

Hack(H)er413 2023

Feb, 2023

Mentor

After the success of HackUMass X and many positive feedback from participants, I decided to volunteer as a lead mentor for Hack(H)er413 2023 to help provide guidance and support to pro-women, pro-LGBTQ+ hackers.

The pivotal point

June, 2023

Director of Technology of HackUMass XI

With the success of HackUMass X and the recognition of my mentoring efforts at Hack(H)er413 2023, I was promoted to the Director of Technology for HackUMass XI.
Along with leading the technology team, I had a wonderful opportunity to work with multiple teams to help coordinate the event!

Leadership

Aug, 2023

Team Lead

Under my leadership, the team was able to successfully resolve more than 30 issues and implemented 10 new features creating a smooth experience for the participants to register and submit their projects.

HackUMass XI

Sept, 2023

Mentor/Workshop Lead

When the mentorship system failed to work, I took the initiative to become the light house for all of issues and questions from the participants.Before the system was fixed, I resolved around 60% of the issues related to ReactJS, Flask, and Firebase.
Many were able to submit their projects on time and one even won the Best Security Hack!

Confident in my ReactJS skills, I registered to lead a workshop on 'Introduction to ReactJS' for more than 800 participants and it was a success!

HackUMass XII

Dec, 2024

Co-Director

This year, HackUMass was very lucky to host over 800 participants across New England! As the Co-Director, I helped serve as one of the main contact for many volunteers, mentors, and judges. I also worked with the CS Dean and faculty to expand the hackathon's reach across all majors, creating a more inclusive experience.

Next step?????

More Hackathons!!

I am looking forward to participating in more hackathons even after my graduation and possibly even start one of my own for underrepresented communities!