AI SWE Intern

Merrill Manufacturing
September 2025 - Present • Remote

Engineered a full-stack AI assistant platform using React, Flask (Python), SuiteScript, PostgreSQL, and NetSuite’s LLM module to enable employees to query live ERP data (products, customers, forecasts, maintenance) in natural language.

  • Developed a multi-stage Agentic AI pipeline leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MiniLM + FAISS) and a PostgreSQL conversational memory layer to support context-aware, persistent interactions.
  • Integrated DeBERTa-v3-based BERT guardrails to detect and block prompt-injection and jailbreak attempts, logging security scores and enhancing compliance with internal data governance standards.
  • Built an admin analytics dashboard to monitor token usage, user activity, and security metrics, including pandas-driven data visualizations for sales and forecasting trends.
  • Reduced response latency by 60% through parallelized reasoning batches, semaphore-based concurrency control, and optimized LLM agent orchestration.
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Database Administrator Intern

Uline
May 2025 - August 2025

Responsible for optimizing SQL Server scripts, deploying database updates, and managing access permissions to support secure and efficient business operations.

  • Optimized 2–3 SQL Server queries weekly, achieving up to 42% reduction in execution times, collaborating with the Senior DBA on ongoing performance tuning.
  • Created stored procedures to detect log reader agent failures and partnered with the ESM team to integrate alerts into Nagios, improving replication visibility.
  • Handled 20+ database operations including permission management, backups and UAT restores, stored procedure deployments across SYS/UAT/PROD, SSRS uploads, and automated tasks.
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Lead Computer Science Tutor

Iowa State University - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Aug 2024 – May 2025

Tutored six different courses: Python, OOP, Data Structures, Discrete Math, Computer Architecture, and Design and Analysis of Algorithms.

  • Assisting other tutors with help if needed.
  • Providing support for students in core CS subjects, enhancing project completion rates and exam performance.
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Computer Science Tutor

Iowa State University - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Aug 2023 – Aug 2024

Assisted over 100 students in core computer science concepts such as Data Structures, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and Discrete Mathematics.

  • Created examples for students to use and study for upcoming exams, improving their exam grades.
  • Provided comprehensive help in various languages such as Python and Java, leading to better project scores.
  • Tutored 4 different courses: OOP, Python, Data Structures, and Discrete Mathematics.