Experience

Incoming Software Engineer Intern

May 2026 – Aug 2026

Liberty Mutual Insurance

Portsmouth, NH

Software Engineer Intern

Aug 2025 – Present

Medica

Minnetonka, MN

  • Built and deployed internal employee-enrollment systems using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and Maven, improving workflow automation and reducing manual processing dependencies.
  • Digitized paper-based onboarding by integrating automated data validation and persistence layers, boosting employee enrollment speed by 65%, improving system reliability, and enhancing overall operational efficiency across HR systems.

Machine Learning Research Assistant

Feb 2025 – Jun 2025

Gustavus Adolphus College

Saint Peter, MN

  • Built an ML-powered, agentic voice-guided form-completion system using Python, Azure Form Recognizer, LayoutLMv3, reducing completion time from 60 to 15 minutes.
  • Improved form completion for visually impaired users from 45–60 minutes down to 15 minutes, enabling faster, more accurate submissions via automated email or print outputs.

Machine Learning Researcher

Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

Hugging Face

San Francisco, CA

  • Implemented LLM evaluation metrics in Python and ran benchmarks across 10+ model configurations, measuring reasoning accuracy, long-context performance, and memory retention over multi-turn interactions.
  • Improved reproducible model evaluation workflows, reducing manual analysis time and enabling consistent comparison of LLM performance through documented open-source contributions.

Software Engineer Intern

Aug 2023 – Aug 2024

Medtronic

Mounds View, MN

  • Engineered automated backend pipelines by replacing manual Excel processes with GoLang and SQL-based services; designed modular APIs, optimized database queries with indexing and batching, and implemented concurrency to reduce data processing time by 50% while improving system reliability for 8+ R&D teams.
  • Spearheaded end-to-end pipeline automation, implementing data validation and error-handling routines, coordinating 12+ user acceptance tests, and increasing processing efficiency by 30% for teams tracking over $2.5M in R&D projects.