Hi, I'm Youdahe 🧑‍🚀

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Student at Gustavus Adolphus College. I build stuff that works — currently into distributed systems and MCPs.

Experience

SWE Intern

Mar 2026 – Present

Liberty Mutual Insurance

Architecting a self-service platform for one-click retirement of legacy AIX IBM MQ brokers — migrating workloads to Kubernetes StatefulSets with PVC-backed storage, CNI-configured networking, and namespace-isolated broker topologies. Saves hundreds of thousands annually in AIX licensing overhead.

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2026 – May 2026

Medica

Engineered an internal RAG pipeline from scratch — document ingestion, chunking, embedding generation, and vector store indexing with hybrid sparse-dense retrieval feeding a stateful AI agent grounded against live internal knowledge. Reduced onboarding time from one week to under two days.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Jun – Aug 2025

Gustavus Adolphus College

Built VLM inference infrastructure for visually impaired users. Invited to present at Macksey Symposium (Johns Hopkins), PRISM Symposium (UChicago), URS (UMN), and Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol.

Head of Engineering

Apr 2025 – Present

Docere

Built and scaled the backend for an LMS-integrated memory layer serving thousands of students — LTI 1.3 pipelines for Moodle and Canvas, hierarchical memory graphs with weighted concept nodes, and a RAG serving layer for low-latency natural language interfaces. Raised $20K+.

Software Engineer Intern

Aug 2023 – Aug 2024

Medtronic

Built distributed data pipelines across the Touch Surgery ecosystem — ingesting surgical video feeds, instrument telemetry, and case metadata into ETL pipelines powering AI-driven performance insights across surgical workflow, instrument detection, and phase classification.

Projects

docere

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Python FastAPI React PostgreSQL Qdrant Redis Claude LangGraph

Persistent semantic memory system — long-term context and recall for AI agents.

distributed db engine

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Rust Raft CRDTs

Multi-region database with LSM-tree storage, Raft consensus, configurable consistency, and automatic sharding.

container runtime

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Go Linux Networking

Container runtime and orchestrator from scratch — namespaces, cgroups, overlay fs, scheduler, and service mesh.

event streaming platform

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Go Kafka Stream Processing

Globally distributed commit log with exactly-once semantics, tiered storage, and stateful stream processing.