GPA: 4.0, dual enrolled in high school and then took a gap year before college.

Competitive Programming (USACO Gold Division) with C++, US Congressional App Challenge Winner

1st place Education @ HackMIT (top 10 overall), 1st place Hack UIowa, 1st place CuseHacks, 1st place Sonoma Hacks

GPA: 4.043 - Honors Scholar

SAT: 1570/1600 (800 math, 770 reading-writing)

Activities: National Honor Society President, Science Olympiad Captain, Science Bowl Captain, State QuizBowl Captain, Varsity Debater + National Qualifier

Architected and implemented low-level WebRTC voice and video calling functionality. Started as a proof-of-concept and then scaled to general availability on Google Kubernetes Engine.

Reduced application load times by 20x on high-traffic pages by optimizing database queries, network requests, and re-renders.

Refactored backend to a REST-ful API and automated tests with Jest and Puppeteer, improving performance and stability.

Deployed and managed servers with Terraform on Google Compute Engine for internal tools used company-wide.

Designed and built user-facing features using Typescript, Next.js, React, Redux, Material UI, and MongoDB.

Assist twice a week in teaching online classes of 20-50 students answering questions, guiding students, and helping debug.

Provide detailed logical and stylistic feedback to students' advanced math and Python solutions. Have graded introductory (Pre-Algebra, Geometry, Counting and Probability, etc.) to advanced (Calculus, WOOT, etc.) homework.

Published Android and iOS apps for Brookings High School students, staff, and parents for fast and reliable emergency alerts.

Gained 2000+ downloads, more than 2.5x the number of students. The school district offered to purchase the app for every school.

Collaborated with school administration and IT to deliver timely and relevant push notifications and in-app updates.

Maintained an average rating of 4.9 stars across both app stores with over 50 reviews.

Developed custom PHP image gallery and file storage server to be used by more than 68,000 registered users.

Implemented an image optimization service to reduce image file sizes by up to 80% and serve at the edge.

Built and deployed a global network of servers to publish messages in under 200ms to over 7,500 concurrent users globally.

Developed complex web scraping bots and websites to successfully gather information requested by clients quickly and accurately.

Volunteer taught three‐hour classes every week during the summer, with lessons ranging from single variable algebra to AIME‐level geometry. Achieved goal of 20+ attendees per class for the last three years.

Created curriculum by writing handouts, homework, and mock contests, resulting in over 100 pages of instructional materials over 5 years.

Ensured students’ success with a smooth transition into competitive math, contributing to the local MATHCOUNTS team growing by 60% to more than 30 members.

Used OpenCV and OpenFace to detect, identify, and selectively blur all unrecognized faces in real time.

Automated deployments to DigitalOcean droplets using Docker Compose and GitHub Actions.

Implemented the frontend to connect to a RTMP proxy server with integrated streaming to Youtube (or any other RTMP endpoint).

Parsed user-uploaded lecture videos to create an interactive transcript interlaced with parsed slides from the video.

Leveraged OpenCV to extract lecture slides and Google Cloud Speech APIs for transcription via a FastAPI microservice.

Built frontend to upload video files to Google Cloud Storage and then fetch relevant data from a MongoDB instance.

Founded and directed a 501(c)3 nonprofit to run a week-long, overnight debate summer camp with over 45 students and 10 staff.

Developed the website and classroom management system for our free live-streamed classes.