Professional Experience

A journey through backend engineering, team leadership, and entrepreneurship across high-impact technology companies and research institutions.

PharmaStream

Santa Clara, CA

Founder

Mar 2025 – Present

PharmaStream.ai

Designed and developed a biotech news feed web application as a solo founder. The platform aggregates and summarizes clinical trial updates, SEC filings, and press releases.

  • Product Features: Company watchlist, event feed filtering, original source URL access
  • AI Integration: Gemini-based AI summarization with prompt engineering for concise bullet point summaries
  • Tech Stack: Flask and PostgreSQL backend, React with TypeScript frontend
  • Deployment: VPS deployment with full DevOps pipeline
Flask PostgreSQL React TypeScript AI/ML

Walmart Labs

Sunnyvale, CA

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2022 – Apr 2024

Audience Pipeline

Developed and maintained big data pipelines and microservices to support audience creation. Designed REST API for quick searching of shared audiences.

  • Big data Built and maintained big data pipelines to support audience creation. Ads would be served to these audiences.
  • API Development: Built REST API using Elasticsearch, Play framework, and Kafka in Scala

Digital Asset Management

Developed and maintained subsystem of Digital Out Of Home ads platform.

  • Digital Asset Management: Developed system for management of digital assets for in-store display. This was a subsystem of the Digital Out Of Home ads platform where ads would be shown in all Walmart US stores.
Scala Java Elasticsearch Kafka Play Framework Spring Boot Kubernetes Docker Github CI Big Data

Sandia National Labs

Albuquerque, NM

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2018 – Mar 2022

Software Defined Radio

Led team of 6 software engineers to produce a Software Defined Radio in collaboration with hardware and firmware teams.

  • Technical Leadership: Led C++ codebase interfacing FPGA to UI with event-driven microservices
  • Platform: Microservices on Linux (PetaLinux and Red Hat) with event-driven architecture
  • Team Management: Assigned features and bug fixes in daily stand-ups, reviewed PRs
  • Data Analysis: Created web app to load, label, and analyze test results for algorithm improvement
  • Legacy Systems: Delivered major software releases, migrated XML logs to SQL DB
  • DevOps: Created automated regression tester in Docker for algorithm performance testing
  • ML Research: Secured funding for ML capability improvement, curated data, created PyTorch datasets
C++ Linux Docker PyTorch SQL FPGA

Sandia National Labs

Albuquerque, NM

Electrical Engineer

Feb 2014 – 2018

Product Development & Testing

Led team's test capability with 3 technicians and 1 engineer. Completed full product development lifecycle for 9 products.

  • Product Lifecycle: Managed projects from early design through qualification and production
  • Certification: Achieved Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification
  • Hardware Design: Designed schematic and PCB, validated circuits for product qualification
  • Safety Improvements: Introduced lockout engineering controls for high voltage electrical bench-tops
  • Data Migration: Developed software to migrate test data from CSV files to SQL database
  • Analytics: Performed failure detection and anomaly analysis, improved data traceability
Hardware Design PCB Design SQL Data Analysis Lean Six Sigma

Education

Master of Science

Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics

University of New Mexico

Aug 2011 – 2013

Bachelor of Science

Electrical Engineering

University of New Mexico

Aug 2007 – 2011