Cornell University On-Campus Affiliations

Technical Product Manager at Cornell Digital Tech & Innovation

Duration:

March 2022 - Present

Carriage - Technical Product Manager (Spring 2023 - Fall 2023)

• Led and mentored a team of 7 developers in the ongoing development of the Cornell DTI Carriage, leveraging agile development methodologies and a comprehensive project roadmap to effectively mitigate all the stakeholder concerns.
• Improved overall code quality and reduced time-to-market by establishing a robust testing infrastructure using Cypress for the frontend and Mocha, Chai, and Supertest libraries for the backend resulting in a 94% increase in test coverage across the application.
• Streamlined the deployment process by Dockerizing the web app, automating deployment by implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub actions, and implementing a Kubernetes cluster to improve resource utilization and performance.

Carriage (August 2022 - Present)

• Extended my role as a developer in a larger team, improving the website's accessibility and overhauling its authentication flow.
• Reduced backend calls by 90%, decreasing DynamoDB operations and resulting in lower AWS charges.

Design @ Cornell (March 2022 - August 2022)

• Developed and maintained a dynamic, responsive website using React and Express, as part of a five-member development team.
• Successfully reimagined the design of the homepage to improve user engagement.

Key Technologies:

Head of Engineering at Cornell Perfect Match

Duration:

January 2023 - Present

• Redesigned the website’s frontend for improved UX/UI and integrated microservices, enhancing user engagement and system scalability.
• Architected a Flask-based microservice for a live analytics dashboard, analyzing real-time data for 5,000+ users. Utilized MongoDB Map-Reduce for efficient data aggregation and integrated server response caching for optimized latency and data retrieval.
• Initiated the transition from offline to online matching algorithms, deploying a Flask microservice to enable real-time matching, resulting in 50,000+ matches and enhanced system responsiveness.
• Automated personalized user engagement emails via cron jobs, yielding a 600+ increase in active users and enhancing platform interaction.
• Drove innovative marketing strategies, amplifying Instagram engagement by 185%, while nurturing a strong team dynamic. Enhanced new member orientation to solidify community and team cohesion.

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Vice-President at Cornell Wushu - Chinese Martial Arts Club

Duration:

September 2021 - Present

Secretary (September 2022 - May 2023)

• Elected as the club secretary for the 2022-23 academic year.
• Kept club members up-to-date about practices, socials, performances, and events through bi-weekly emails and website updates.

Vice-President (May 2023 - Present)

• Promoted to the role of Vice-President for the 2022-23 academic year.
• Working alongside the President and Practice Leaders to guide practices, helping newcomers improve their skills.
• Assisting with planning practice sessions for competitions and arranging events.
  

The club taught me some of the most important life lesson:

• Life-long neglect -> people-pleasing -> lack of boundaries, self-worth, and self-love.
• Speaking up for yourself for once -> people start hating -> recovering from rejection sensitivity and people-pleasing behavior.