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Works

Professional experience, research contributions, personal projects, and technical skills.


1.Professional Experience

Mar 2024 – Present

Software Engineer

LG Electronics · Englewood Cliffs, USA (Remote)

  • –Shipped Next.js, Redux, and TypeScript B2B platform features for 1,000+ vendors, contributing to a 25% user-engagement lift.
  • –Designed analytics and tagging frameworks adopted by 6+ product teams, enabling real-time measurement and data-driven feature prioritization.
  • –Built AI-powered global search with 35 ms lower latency and checkout workflows that drove a 15% conversion lift across promo-code and magic-link flows.

Present

Tech Lead

Vibecore · Remote

  • –Lead a small engineering team building a GitHub-native software verification platform for founders who build with AI coding tools.
  • –Automated CI/CD deployments from GitHub Actions to AWS EC2, standardizing releases for EC2-hosted applications.
  • –Configured S3, DynamoDB, and IAM permissions for cloud-connected application workflows.
  • –Provisioned and maintained EBS/EFS storage for application data and deployment infrastructure.

Jun 2025 – Jan 2026

Software Engineer

Hoek Insights · Amsterdam, Netherlands (Remote)

  • –Engineered a Python package for Three.js visualizations in Jupyter, reducing render time by 38% and bundle size by 25% through React renderer optimization.
  • –Shipped a FastAPI and PostgreSQL MVP with 18+ endpoints and 10 product workflows.
  • –Maintained below 200 ms median staging latency and 95% integration-test coverage through automated API testing.

Aug 2019 – Apr 2024

Software Engineer

Timeero · Phoenix, USA (Remote)

  • –Led frontend development of a TypeScript, React, Vite, and Mapbox mileage-tracking application supporting 1,000+ active users.
  • –Shipped 15+ geospatial workflows for segment mapping, mileage capture, and field operations.
  • –Improved time-capture accuracy by 30% through Mapbox-based mapping and production workflow refinements.

2.Research

Mar 2024 – Present

Undergraduate Researcher — Algorithms & Computational Geometry

GADA Lab · University of Manitoba

Supervisors: Dr. Stephane Durocher, Dr. Anurag Murty Naredla, Dr. Leqi (Jimmy) Zhu & Dr. Avery Miller

  • –Fuel-efficient collaborative delivery: an O(n²) algorithm for the line-restricted setting (improving the previous O(n³) bound from WALCOM 2025), an O(n³) algorithm for the L1 setting, and an NP-hardness proof for the Euclidean setting, where the L1 algorithm gives a √2-approximation.
  • –Developed an approximation algorithm for Hamiltonian-path optimization in spatially embedded graphs with visualization and randomized testing across 100+ synthetic instances.
  • –Improved a noncrossing spanning-tree research library by 30% and strengthened its Python testing, documentation, and development practices.

Sep 2026 – Apr 2027

Honours Research Project — Calibrated Risk Prediction

Department of Computer Science · University of Manitoba

Supervisors: Dr. Christopher Henry, Dr. Mohammad Sayari & Dr. Sadaf Salehkalaibar

  • –Building calibrated models for potato pathogen-risk and yield-loss prediction, in collaboration with the Department of Plant Science.

May 2025 – Present

Machine Learning Researcher

Terrabyte ML Research Group

  • –Extended diffusion-based learning to higher-order relational data by implementing 4 Hypergraph Neural Diffusion variants with PyTorch and PyTorch Geometric.
  • –Built an MLflow pipeline tracking configurations, metrics, and evaluations for 25+ experiments across 5+ datasets.

Jan 2024 – Jul 2025

Undergraduate Researcher — Combinatorics & Graph Theory

MXML · Department of Mathematics · University of Manitoba

Supervisors: Dr. Andrii Arman & Dr. Mahsa N. Shirazi

  • –Established a coefficientwise inequality underlying the Hurlbert–Kamat property for perfect m-ary trees and derived a closed-form expression for their independence number.
  • –Used generating functions, polynomial recurrences, and induction, with SageMath validation across 1,000+ instances.

3.Projects & Achievements

PayTime — 1st Place, CSSA Design & Craft

2026

Next.js · TypeScript · FastAPI · Python · Supabase

Won 1st place at the 2026 CSSA Design & Craft Case Competition by building an auditable payroll-ingestion platform in a 6.5-hour technical sprint. Implemented field mapping, validation, exception review, and source traceability for CSV, XLSX, PDF, image, and email-derived records.

Competition · GitHub

HAPA — Winner, AccelR8 Prairie AI Hackathon

2026

Next.js · React · TypeScript · AI/LLM

Won the 2026 AccelR8 Prairie AI Hackathon with a working personalized-shopping prototype built in 12 hours. Combined onboarding preferences, swipe feedback, and natural-language/voice pivots to adapt recommendations, with an extensible design for multimodal personalization and AI-assisted commerce.

Hackathon · GitHub

EkNepal

2024

Frontend · Professional Project · Alpinist Studios

A news-aggregation platform bringing reporting from multiple Nepali publications into one interface. My first paid programming project — I contributed to the frontend while working through Alpinist Studios. The public product is proprietary; the source is not published.

Project note · eknepal.com

Brainstorm

2026

Next.js · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Pinecone · Redis · RAG

AI-powered, role-specific knowledge management system (144 commits, 4 collaborators). Integrated Pinecone, Jira, Redis, and PostgreSQL with interactive charts. Implemented retrieval-augmented generation with role-based access controls across 4 integrated systems. Built a model-routing layer with dynamic model selection and fallback policies. Demoed to 7 users at Sprint to Innovate 2026; pitched for the CIPS Manitoba Challenge.

WinLocate

2026

React · Socrata API · Full-Stack · Civic Data

Full-stack civic-data platform helping organizations compare Winnipeg locations using city data, zoning maps, budget estimates, and relocation-planning tools. Integrated City of Winnipeg open datasets via the Socrata API into interactive comparisons and maps. 1st place, 2026 Winnipeg Open Data Datathon.

Project note · Winner announcement

Get Good Grades

2026

Electron · React · TypeScript · YAML

Desktop flashcard application that reads user-controlled .yaml deck files directly from the local file system, separating flashcard content from the viewer so decks stay portable and shareable as plain text. Sole designer and developer. Winner, "Most Chaotic Evil Hack," .devHacks 2026.

Project note

Spatially Embedded Graphs

2024–Present

Python · Algorithms · Visualisation

Modelled Hamiltonian paths in ℝ² for approximation algorithms. Generated 100+ randomised instances, built visualisation pipelines, and validated algorithm behaviour across synthetic inputs.

Hurlbert–Kamat Property in Perfect m-ary Trees

2024

SageMath · Combinatorics

Investigated the HK-property in perfect m-ary trees using SageMath and combinatorial analysis. Implemented computational checks across 1,000+ cases to support conjecture validation.

.devHacks — "Most Chaotic Evil Hack"

2025

React.js · FastAPI · BERT · Supabase · TailwindCSS

Winner of 'Most Chaotic Evil Hack' among 20+ teams. Built a chatroom using websockets with a BERT + PyTorch text classification model that categorises messages (e.g. 'brainrot', 'nerdy', 'dad joke') and rewards users with in-game currency. Built the FastAPI backend with Supabase for persistent storage and message reactions.

CSSA CTF — 1st & 2nd Place

2025–2026

C · Python · Cryptography · Ghidra

1st place among 41 teams (2026) and 2nd place among 25+ teams (2025) at the annual CSSA Capture the Flag competition. Achieved 3rd place for Computational Sciences in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience poster competition among 50+ student researchers.


4.Technical Skills

Languages JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C, C++, R, SageMath, Bash, SQL
Databases PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, SQLite, MSSQL, Pinecone (Vector DB), Redis
Web Frameworks Next.js, React.js, FastAPI, Node.js, Astro
ML / Data PyTorch, PyTorch Geometric, NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-learn, MLFlow, Pandas
Cloud & Infrastructure AWS EC2, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, EBS/EFS, Docker, GitHub Actions, Linux
Engineering Practices CI/CD, API design, integration testing, automated testing, reproducible experimentation
Specializations Full-stack development, cloud infrastructure, ML systems, geospatial systems
Developer Tools Git, Tmux, Neovim, VS Code, IntelliJ, Figma, Jupyter
Research Tools Model Context Protocol, Three.js, LaTeX, Beamer, Jupyter