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Experience

A year shipping platform software at Citi, and research on multimodal agents at USC.

Software Analyst, Citi

Jul 2024 – Jul 2025

Deal-booking platform

Java / Spring Boot REST microservices with validation and custom exception handling; PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
1,000+ deal records daily · 8+ REST APIs with alerting and log aggregation.

Front-end operations console

Angular 16+ and React, TypeScript, Bootstrap; 10+ responsive role-gated screens.
Load time −32% · FCP −17% via API caching and lazy loading.
Led the Angular 14 → 18 migration, resolving 50+ breaking changes.

Scheduling service

Orchestrated 20+ batch workflows with restart and abort controls; less manual intervention on failed trade-processing runs.

DevOps and quality

Docker microservices on OpenShift; Jenkins CI/CD upgrades: throughput +26%.
85%+ unit-test coverage (JUnit, Jasmine); took part in SIT and UAT.

Details are kept free of confidential Citi information.

Research

Co-author · USC

GameBoyWorlds: open-world GenAI & RL agent framework

Under review at ICLR 2027

An embodied-AI benchmark of 500 multimodal tasks across 10 games. Frontier and open-source VLMs (GPT-5, Gemini, Claude, Gemma, Qwen) are evaluated through hierarchical agents with supervisor-executor control, dynamic memory, self-reflection, and subgoal planning.

Up to 22%Task-success gain from a curiosity-driven exploration pipeline on select environments

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Education

MS, Computer Science — University of Southern California
In progress · Aug 2025 – May 2027
BE, Computer Science and Engineering — College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University
Nov 2020 – May 2024 · GPA 9.04 / 10.0

Coursework

Distributed Systems
Algorithms and Data Structures
Database Management
Web Development
System Design
Machine Learning
Agentic AI Development