Work Experience
Systems Engineer
Led enterprise modernization across web architecture, infrastructure, and security. Engineered Next.js and Node.js applications, optimizing server-side rendering to boost page speeds by 40%. Re-architected IT frameworks and corporate failovers, securing 99.99% uptime and a 15-minute RTO. Deployed end-to-end security protocols safeguarding 100% of sensitive customer data. Built Python scripts to automate financial reporting and eliminate manual accounting errors.
Quality Assurance Tester
Served as a contract QA tester for TubNet, a large-scale Minecraft server supporting millions of users. Performed extensive pre-launch testing on unreleased minigames to identify and document critical bugs, mechanical exploits, and gameplay issues. Provided actionable usability recommendations that directly improved player experience and ensured stable, successful high-traffic platform launches.
Social Media Manager & Developer
Architected and developed custom APIs, modular software extensions, and high-performance digital environments for major creators, reaching over 180M subscribers and 70M views. Collaborated closely with production teams to deliver stable assets under high concurrency. Engineered complex, scalable backend logic and asynchronous, event-driven components dynamically utilized during massive live production events to scale interactive user features.
Featured Work
Making AI Vision Models Faster
A breakdown of Instruction-Guided Visual Token Pruning (IVTP), a method that reduces visual token computation in large vision-language models by up to ~47% while still maintaining near-identical accuracy. This article covers the core idea, the architecture behind it, and why instruction-aware pruning matters.
MDCran·Dec 3, 2025·2 min readEducation
B.S. Computer Science
Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Dean's List and President's Honor Roll recipient. Active member of multiple academic honor societies.
Volunteer
Event Manager & Developer
Designed and developed custom minigame events for TommyInnit's Discord — one of the largest gaming communities in the world with 723,000+ members, recognized as the 8th largest community in 2023.
Scripter & QA Member
Scripter and quality assurance member for Lucille Games, one of the largest Pokémon-themed game servers.
