Honors & Awards
Not a complete list — just the ones that meant something at the time, and still do.
Graduated in the top 3% of the College of Engineering with a 3.9 cumulative GPA.
Full-tuition award granted to 15 students annually on the basis of academic record and research potential.
Won overall grand prize against 240 teams for a real-time accessibility captioning tool built in 36 hours.
Placed second out of 80 teams in the ICPC-style regional, solving 9 of 11 problems.
Judges' pick at a 500-person hackathon for a distributed rendering pipeline that had no business working.
Company-wide quarterly recognition for leading the observability migration across 30+ services.
Team prototype shipped to production within the following quarter and became a standard internal tool.
Nominated by students and selected by faculty for consistently high lab evaluations across four semesters.
Also worth mentioning
Workshop paper · Co-author
Presented simulation results showing an 18% utilization improvement over the baseline scheduler.
Internal engineering talk · ~120 attendees
A practical tour of tracing, structured logging, and the habits that make incidents shorter.
Trophies are the fun part, but the interesting stories are in the projects.