Education

UAH: The University of Alabama in Huntsville

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Graduated: December 2020
GPA: 3.84
Relevant Coursework: Data Structures (C++), Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Intro to Big Data Computing, Client/Server Architectures, and Unix/Linux Programming.

Skills

Swift, C++, C, C#, Java, SQL, JavaScript, and Python

Experience

Software Developer / EDP Curator Lead

NASA

Huntsville, AL — January 2020 to Present

Worked full-stack on an agency-wide search engine project.
Refined search results by creating automated reports that surface duplicated documents and potential personally identifiable information to curators with sortable tables and Chart.js graphs.
Improved usability by validating accessibility and soliciting design feedback from other developers when adding new features.
Led agency effort to identify sensitive unclassified information in response to the Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity.

DevOps Intern

Sharp Auction Engine, Inc.

Huntsville, AL — June 2017 to May 2018

Helped reduce server cost by ~20% through re-architecting our application for AWS, away from Linode.
Added compatibility for 3 new payment gateways by implementing the Authorize.Net payment processor.
Improved the process of creating end-to-end tests for an Angular app by taking the initiative to abstract away common tasks such as logging in, creating accounts, and using the navbar.

Web Development Intern

UAH

Huntsville, AL — March 2017 to August 2017

Diminished page-crashing errors by rewriting AngularJS 1 application with self-taught React & Redux, in 1 month part-time.
Reduced re-indexing time from 20 hours to 4 using parallelization and concurrent processing for calls to the Dropbox API.

Personal Projects

Canary

Daemon — October 2019 to December 2019

Created a tool using Swift + a Raspberry Pi to monitor outgoing calls from MITEL phone systems.
Allows managers to quickly direct health officials and emergency responders to the correct room for when a customer calls an emergency number.

Podcast Archive

Fan Website — January 2017 to February 2017

Built a single page app using Vue.js and the YouTube player API that served all episodes for a podcast, letting you search transcripts and facilitating seeking to timestamps for specific discussion topics.
Coordinated with other fans from the community to create and ingest timelines containing discussion topics and timestamps for each weekly episode.
Served a total of 35,870 people up until Feb. 2020, when its sale to the podcast's creators was finalized.

Comments from Reddit

Safari Extension — December 2016 to January 2017

Created an extension using the Safari API and HTML5 Web Storage to discover existing Reddit discussions based on the currently active page's URL.

Sound Normalizer

Website — July 2015 to August 2015

Made a LAMP-stack web app that normalizes volume levels of sound tracks, by allowing users to upload audio files or directly link to YouTube videos.
Improved result times by creating a self-hosted server component that transparently queued up audio processing jobs and served them to the user when ready.

Affiliations

The Charger Times

Web Administrator + Co-Editor-in-Chief

2018 to 2020

1st Place at MLH Hackathon (First Time Hackers)

2017

Nehal Patel