Teaching Assistant

Data Communications & Enterprise Application Development

BYU Information Systems, Provo, UT

Sep 2025 – Apr 2026

• Contributed to curriculum development and student assistance in topics related to data communications (especially TCP/IP networking) and application development (particularly with ASP .NET)
• Graded assignments including code repositories, AWS infrastructure stacks, and full development projects

Software Engineering Intern

Melaleuca, Inc.

Idaho Falls, ID

May 2025 – Aug 2025

• Developed a modular retrieval system for profile data across 20 C#/.NET APIs, reducing API and database calls by up to 80% in 75% of cases, improving performance and infrastructure load
• Designed and implemented partial profile update and caching mechanisms using Kafka consumers, enabling targeted cache refreshes to lighten processing load
• Built a C# console app and supporting API routes to streamline PDF generation and storage of customer enrollment data; utilized application in automated jobs with JAMS
• Increased maintainability with comprehensive unit tests and by auditing repositories for deprecated code