Experience

NSF AI INVITE Institute

Software Engineer · Champaign, IL · Dec 2025 to present

• Built a real-time learning analytics tool that helps AI tutors catch struggling students mid-lesson, capturing 9 live signals from student code and robot movement at sub-second latency.
• Shipped a live session dashboard, demoed to NSF site visit reviewers, turning 41K+ events into structured context for AI tutors.
• Cut database storage 84% with a normalized 5-table redesign, recovered 24 hours of silently dropped logs per query, and added a health endpoint that auto-degrades to 503.
• Launched an agent intervention platform letting a 10+ person team deploy tutor behaviors by config change, evaluating rules against 200K+ events on a 5 second cycle.

Illinois Women in CS DevAda

Lead Software Engineer · Champaign, IL · Jan 2026 to present

• Led 4 developers across 10 weekly sprints from zero ML experience to a deployed product.
• Built FireWatch, forecasting wildfire severity 52 weeks out, merging 3 federal datasets and 11K+ fire observations into one live pipeline.
• Engineered the stack end to end: 8 model-ready features, a time series model, and an interactive Streamlit and PyDeck map.

Student Alumni Ambassadors

VP of Alumni Relations · Champaign, IL · Mar 2026 to present

• Organize events hosting 250+ guests and coordinate 10+ volunteers across 7 game days for a 90-member organization.
• Built a 650-person alumni database with outreach templates.

Management Leadership for Tomorrow

Career Prep Fellow · Remote · Jan 2026 to present

• Selected for a competitive 18-month program with partners including LinkedIn, Bloomberg, and Deloitte.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

BS Computer Science & Learning Sciences · expected May 2028 · GPA 4.0

• Chancellor's Scholar (top 1%), James Scholar, Dean's List x3, We CU Scholar.
• CS Student Ambassadors, Research Scholar, Peer Mentoring Center, Teach for America Ignite.

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