About

Hi again! This page includes some more information about me, such as some insight into my motivations, a brief overview of my experiences, and my career goals.

Interests

My interest in computer science and mathematics began simply – I enjoyed writing computer programs in high school, and thrived in the struggles of working through hard (for me, at least) problems in mathematics. Over my years at university, I found myself drawn to the more theoretical side of computer science - in particular, I am deeply interested in the design of programming languages, and somewhat tangentially, in studying the characteristics of powerful abstractions.

Examples of abstractions or programming paradigms that I find especially powerful include “language-oriented programming”, wherein rather than being restricted by the features of the host language, developers invent their own constructs that more naturally model their domain and allow for a more declarative and concise style of programming. Additionally, I am also studying logic programming, a programming paradigm wherein computation is expressed in terms of relations rather than single-valued functions, allowing developers to run computations “backwards” (i.e derive inputs from outputs) – all from a single definition!

Ultimately, I value elegance in programs. I enjoy the study of the various programming paradigms and programming language features, each with its own strengths and tradeoffs, that shape how we think about computation. A high-level goal of mine in my career is to make it easier for developers to combine ideas from diverse paradigms to build more expressive and beautiful abstractions.

Experience

I have completed 24 months of co-op. This was divided into two 8 month terms and two 4 month terms. In reverse chronological order:

Software Engineer Intern at Shopify (Fall 2025)

I was on the Payments Infrastructure team and worked on optimizing database utilization to make checkouts faster and more resilient to high loads. As personal side quests, I also contributed to Shopify’s Ruby Rails LSP add-on and built an internal Ruby LSP add-on that provided IDE support for fixtures (test data). I also gave a talk on the importance of building tools to make development easier, and shared my experience building Rooble, a Hoogle-like tool enabling fuzzy type-signature search for RBI files.

One of the highlights of my internship was being invited to lunch with Tobias Lütke (CEO, Shopify) as part of a small group of “high-impact” interns. Another highlight included being in the office during BFCM week, and watching the insane numbers and graphs on our monitoring dashboards!

Software Engineer Intern at SAP (Winter, Summer 2025)

I was part of the Orchestrated Tenant Deletion team, where I worked on migrating tenant data deletion workflows from AWS SWF to Temporal, and building dashboards/analytics to track workflow progress, error rates, and other SLAs.

Site Reliability Engineer Intern at Visier (Winter, Summer 2024)

I worked on maintaining Visier’s cloud infrastructure and contributed to the first phase rollout of Visier’s platform on Azure. I wrote a bunch of Terraform, Packer, and other IaC modules, and got familiar with AWS and Azure’s cloud offerings and primitives.

Software Engineer Intern at Vidyard (Winter 2023)

This was my first internship! I was on the billing team and worked on migrating Vidyard’s billing platform from Zuora to Stripe. This was the first time I used Ruby and one of the highlights of my internship was discovering Ruby’s meta-programming capabilities. Another highlight was being involved in the rollout of my team’s work and seeing Vidyard’s first ever self-serve sale show up on the Stripe dashboard.

Research

As part of the SIGPLAN-M mentorship program, I am working with Dr. William E. Byrd on exploring relational programming and the miniKanren ecosystem. In particular, I am currently exploring extensions to the work on metaKanren, with the goal of achieving a relational meta-circular interpreter for miniKanren. This is my first foray into the world of academia, and I am extremely grateful for the existence of a program like SIGPLAN-M.

Outside Work/School