After graduating, I decided to join the Relativity team. As a full-time engineer, my main priority has been to create features and fixes for the company's flagship product, Relativity. I have also contributed to cloud infrastructure, DevOps initiatives, code quality assurance, on-call rotations, and mentoring an intern. I have specifically enjoyed being more involved in, and even occasionally leading, design decisions.

Relativity was the company of choice for my second internship. Here I was able to gain both an understanding and appreciation for how applications are deployed in the cloud. I worked on a team focused on Kubernetes and the primary function of my internship was to reduce time to production through implementing CI/CD and developing a Kubernetes operator which interacts with Azure Container Registries to decrease image turnaround time.

At SS&C Advent I worked full stack and learned what it means to be a software engineer beyond college. Here I gained valuable experience using tools such as JIRA, Bitbucket, Jenkins, VSCode, Postman, GridGain, and HTML dev tools all while working in Agile development with daily scrums. I was tasked with integrating into a growing team with an expansive code base.

I came to Cal undeclared in the College of Engineering never having taken a computer science course in my life. Due to unforseen circumstances, I found myself in The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (CS61A) a week into my first semester. From that moment onward I knew I had a calling to computer science and have actively sought opportunities to apply my knowledge since then. One particularly enjoyable non coding applications of my knowledge involved calculating the runtime required to make various combinations of google groups and then using the principle of least privilege to assign privileges to each group.