my experiences
a wandering path through projects, teams, and little details that made me smile
Software Engineer Intern
PayPal
Contributing to the development of PayPal's global products. (Japan, Mexico, etc)
- Onboarding and ramping up on fintech knowledge... (I now know whats a payment ecosystem teehee)
Cloud Engineer Intern
GIC
Contributed to GIC's new internal infrastructure which supports 40+ of GIC's internal teams.
- Led the development of an automated CI workflow that dynamically tests changed modules, reducing bugs that made their way to production.
- Engineered an automated secret rotation system for Redis AUTH tokens using AWS; developed mock MVPs to rigorously test real-world usage and edge cases.
- I also got the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification! (I'm a certified AWS Solutions Architect now!)
Fullstack Software Engineer Intern
Vucar
Contributed to Vucar's platform product, implementing new features and improving the overall user experience.
- Consolidated the source code of two internal platforms into a unified codebase by aligning their architecture and migrating to a shared technology stack, improving development consistency.
- Researched and implemented performance optimizations based on Google’s updated Core Web Vitals, improving Lighthouse and PageSpeed performance scores by 20%.
- Redesigned CI workflows during monorepo migration by enforcing branch naming conventions (e.g., `web/feature/*`), enabling targeted auto-deployment based on modified folders.