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Medtronic — Graduate Software Engineer Intern
Minneapolis, United States | June 2025 – August 2025
- Automated an annual 100+ hour manual code audit by using the Azure DevOps API to scan the codebase, update dashboards, and send automated email alerts when release-critical conditions are met.
 - Instrumented .NET services handling high volumes of patient transmissions with Prometheus to expose detailed Confluent Kafka consumer lag metrics, enhancing observability in Dynatrace.
 - Built a Helm deployment log aggregator using the Helm and Azure DevOps Golang SDKs, persisting logs indefinitely via pipeline artifact storage with zero added cost.
 - Integrated Dynatrace Distributed Tracing into .NET microservices, enabling end-to-end visibility and reducing debugging time in production environments.
 
Medtronic — Student Software Engineer
Minneapolis, United States | January 2025 – May 2025
- Upgraded .NET services supporting cardiac implantable IoT devices, improving system stability and securing real-time telemetry across critical endpoints.
 - Diagnosed and resolved Helm deployment issues on AWS EKS clusters, boosting CI/CD reliability and reducing rollout disruptions across development and production environments.
 - Built custom Docker base images eliminating dependency CVEs, enabling precise tracking of new vulnerabilities and hardening container security.
 
NDSU College of Engineering — Graduate Research Assistant
Fargo, North Dakota | January 2024 – December 2024
- Researched knowledge graph inference techniques using large language models (LLMs) to enhance natural language understanding and reasoning capabilities.
 - Provided leadership to a team of undergraduate research assistants, guiding contributions to impactful software development projects aligned with research objectives.
 - Handled export-controlled and controlled unclassified materials while adhering to NDA restrictions.
 
Medtronic — Software Engineer Intern
Minneapolis, Minnesota | June 2024 – August 2024
- Introduced and implemented Azure Pipeline simplification strategies, decreasing build and deployment runtimes by 80%.
 - Spearheaded automatic library and service versioning with CI/CD tagging, leveraging JFrog Artifactory for artifact storage, resulting in faster artifact delivery.
 - Facilitated migration of libraries, utilities, and services from Windows to Kubernetes deployments on AWS EKS, improving system performance and reliability.
 - Utilized Gitflow workflow and actively participated in a Scrum team, following Agile methodologies.
 
NDSU College of Engineering — Undergraduate Research Assistant
Fargo, North Dakota | February 2023 – January 2024
- Contributed to a DoD-contracted cybersecurity project on automated black box testing of mission critical infrastructure using C# .NET.
 - Handled export-controlled and controlled unclassified materials.
 - Adhered to Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) restrictions.