Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
University of Washington, 2023 - 2025

Work and Volunteering

Merchandiser
Costco Wholesale, April 2014 - August 2023
Worked as primarily as a merchandiser but also as a cashier, inventory assistant, and various other roles as needed in a fast-paced, high volume retail environment.

  • Employed time management and organizational skills to efficiently stock merchandise, with particular attention to details optimizing for both sales and member experience.
  • Planning and executing significant rearrangements of product locations to proactively respond to seasonal shifts in demand.
  • Flexibility and adaptability cultivated by switching roles to respond to the rapidly shifting needs of the store during open hours.

Violinist
Seattle Festival Orchestra | March 2016 - Present
Volunteer member of the violin section for a historic local community orchestra that performs several concerts each year.

  • Duties include attending rehearsals, learning new repertoire, developing technical skill, and performing at various events.
  • Typically requires 5-10 hours of work each week.

Projects

Flight Application Project
CSE 344: Introduction to Database Systems, Spring 2024
Built a simulated flight reservation system; users can perform actions such as searching for flights between cities on a given day, reserve itineraries, and pay for their reservations.

  • Written in Java, utilizing SQL queries to interact with flight and reservation databases hosted on Microsoft Azure.
  • Learned fundamentals of database design and nuances of SQL query construction.

Data Structure Implementation
CSE 332: Data Structures and Parallelism, Winter 2024
Wrote several different versions of a Dictionary data structure.

  • Dictionaries based on heap, linked list, AVLTree, and hash table structures; implemented several sorting algorithms.
  • Project written in Java; learned about optimization of data structure and sorting algorithms.

Transit Ridership Information App
INFO 201: Foundational Skills for Data Science, Winter 2023
Collaborated with a classmate to create an interactive data visualization communicating information about Seattle transit ridership.

  • Users can filter the displayed information by timeframe and transit modes, and select from several visualizations.
  • Dataset preprocessed using R; app written in R and hosted using the Shiny framework.

Rent Too High
CSE 442: Data Viz, Fall 2024
Collaborated with classmates to create several interactive data visualizations that illuminate the increasing cost of rent relative to income around the United States.

  • Users can select states and counties to see detailed breakdowns of rental rates in synchronized scatterplots, with a few different maps that focus on different facets of the dataset.
  • Dataset preprocessed using R; app assembled using a combination of Tableau, Vega-Lite, D3, and Observable Notebooks.

Discord Bot
Personal Project, Fall 2024 - present
Created a versatile Gaming Assistant Discord Bot with a variety of functions, such as dice rolling and rules text search, that streamline playing a tabletop game on Discord.

  • Wrote R scripts that parse the rules text and create .csv files; designed and implemented a relational database using sqlite3; used Javascript with Node to write the bot itself.
  • Future improvements include game state tracking and generalizing some functions of the bot for use in a wider variety of games.