Education

Georgia Institute of Technology Graduating May 2028
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science | Atlanta, GA
Concentrations: Systems & Architecture and Theory
GPA: 4.0
Relevant Coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Computer Design, Systems & Networks, Algorithms Analysis

Work Experience

Georgia Tech College of Computing Aug 2025 - Present
Research Assistant | Atlanta, GA
  • Designing parallel-system concurrency control scheme for B-skiplists
Manhattan Associates May 2025 - Aug 2025
Software Engineering Intern - Cloud | Atlanta, GA
  • Saved $53k/yr in cloud spend by developing a CI/CD pipeline in C# to resize VMs across multi-tenant groups
  • Reduced storage account spend by 16% by automating file purging with a Python Azure Function
  • Enabled a $250B+ retailer to deploy custom business logic by architecting VPN and Azure Function integrations
UGA School of Computing Aug 2023 - May 2024
Research Assistant | Athens, GA
  • Published main-author paper on transformer-based COVID-19 forecasting in IEEE Big Data 2024
  • Unified R and Python (PyTorch, TensorFlow) pipelines into a framework used by 4+ graduate projects
UGA Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
Research Assistant | Athens, GA
  • Boosted structural equations model R squared from less than 0.05 to greater than 0.2 on state-level pandemic data by designing a mutual-information-based graph clustering algorithm in R
  • Informed CDC vaccination priorities by drafting and presenting a white paper to 15+ researchers
Smith Temple Law, Norris Injury Law Feb 2023 - Jun 2023
Software Contractor | Athens, GA
  • Saved 200+ paralegal hours by creating a parallel information retrieval application in C#/.NET to search 3TB+ of images
  • Iterated UI design through weekly demos, allowing rollout across the firms with minimal training

Publications and Projects

Rana, S., Miller, J.A., Nesbit, J., Barna, N.H., Aldosari, M., Arpinar, I.B. (2025). How Effective are Time Series Models for Pandemic Forecasting? BIGDATA 2024.
  • Kaggle ASHRAE III Competition: Won a silver medal (top 3%) for predicting building energy consumption with a data pipeline of boosted trees, permutation importance tests, cross-validation, and ensembling models in Python
  • Autonomous Drone Project: Led a team of five people & wrote firmware in C++ for a 1m wingspan fixed-wing drone to autonomously turn and adjust altitude

Activities and Leadership

Georgia Tech Formula SAE Electric Racing Jan 2025 - Apr 2025
DriveBrain Software Engineer | Atlanta, GA
  • Accelerated development cycles by writing car environment simulation software in C++
  • Added torque controller system to software stack (Server, CAN, Protobuf, Microcontroller) for torque vectoring
  • Improved onboarding by extending documentation and gtest unit tests to outline expected behavior

Technical Skills

Languages: C++, Python, C, C#, Java
Technologies & Methodologies: Azure, CI/CD, CMake, Docker, Nix, RESTful APIs, Git, Linux
Libraries & Frameworks: PyTorch, NumPy/Pandas, TensorFlow, .NET