Work Experience

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Strategic Courses Researcher

Jul 2025 – Present 📍 Seattle, WA

Conducted quantitative and qualitative data analysis to evaluate student success in courses.
Built an offline audio transcription pipeline using Python and OpenAI Whisper to transcribe sensitive audio data.
Presented findings (lack of canvas/technology support, group work, etc) to faculty stakeholders.

Python OpenAI Whisper Data Analysis Qualitative Coding

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Mar 2026 – Apr 2026 📍 Remote

Contributed a server-side syntax highlighting plugin to Foundry, an open-source Go CMS (186+ GitHub stars), adding colorized code rendering for 9 languages with zero runtime JS dependencies.
Built the full plugin end-to-end in Go including rendering engine, asset injection, plugin registration, and unit tests.

Go Open Source Plugin Development

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Jul 2025 – Jan 2026 📍 Remote

Contributed to a React Native mobile app with 3,000+ downloads using Expo, Firebase, and JavaScript.
Led UI rebranding: renamed components, applied new brand colors, replaced icons, splash screens, and logos.
Implemented time-sensitive feature toggles that automatically adjust app functionality based on event lifecycles.

React Native Firebase Expo JavaScript

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Nov 2022 – Oct 2025 📍 Seattle, WA

Taught programming to 7–15 students per class (ages 7–14) in JavaScript and MakeCode (block coding).
Mentored 100+ students total, guiding them through algorithms, debugging, and game-building projects.

JavaScript MakeCode Teaching

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Sep 2024 – Dec 2024 📍 Seattle, WA

Analyzed 1,000+ PM2.5 air quality measurements across Seattle colleges to determine if historically redlined colleges were exposed to higher PM2.5 levels.
Applied Python (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn) for data cleaning, statistical analysis, and visualization.

Python NumPy Pandas Matplotlib Data Analysis