Professional experience

Internships and engineering roles across backend systems, full stack, ML research, and infrastructure.

  • Software Engineer Intern

    AMD

    Austin, TX

    • Reduced backend data retrieval latency by 70% through optimization of distributed caching architecture and Redis data-access strategies.
    • Diagnosed and resolved a critical memory leak within the Redis caching layer by improving key expiration and eviction mechanisms, increasing application stability and preventing service degradation.
    • Refactored backend automation frameworks and service components, improving scalability, maintainability, and test execution efficiency across engineering workflows.
    • Supported deployment and scaling of hybrid cloud infrastructure utilizing Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-premises environments.
    • Performed root-cause analysis, debugging, profiling, and performance tuning in high-concurrency distributed systems to identify bottlenecks and improve application reliability.

    Redis · Distributed systems · Azure · Kubernetes · Performance

  • Full Stack Developer

    Alliance Française

    Denver, CO

    • Designed and developed a full-stack database management platform using React, Django, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, and modern web technologies.
    • Implemented advanced filtering, searching, and querying functionality enabling efficient retrieval and segmentation of large datasets.
    • Built secure RESTful API endpoints supporting frontend-backend communication, data retrieval, reporting workflows, and business operations.
    • Collaborated with stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle to gather requirements, design solutions, and deliver production-ready functionality.

    React · Django · PostgreSQL · REST APIs · Full stack

  • Student Research Assistant — Machine Learning Phishing Detection

    University of Colorado Denver

    Denver, CO

    • Developed and evaluated machine learning models for phishing email classification using natural language processing and text-based feature extraction techniques.
    • Performed data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, and validation on large email datasets.
    • Implemented supervised classification algorithms to identify phishing attacks and distinguish malicious communications from legitimate emails.
    • Analyzed model performance using accuracy, precision, recall, and other evaluation metrics to improve detection effectiveness.

    Machine learning · NLP · Cybersecurity · Python

  • Systems Engineer Intern

    OGERO

    Beirut, Lebanon

    • Provisioned and administered VMware ESXi virtual machines supporting internal testing, development, and infrastructure validation environments.
    • Developed Python and Bash automation scripts that reduced manual system health reporting effort by 40%.
    • Optimized PostgreSQL database performance through data cleanup, query improvements, and removal of redundant records.
    • Implemented monitoring and alerting solutions for server latency, storage utilization, and disk I/O performance, enabling proactive issue detection and incident response.

    VMware · Python · Bash · PostgreSQL · Monitoring