- Current Role: Software Engineer I - Microsoft (June 2025)
- Previous Internships: 2x Microsoft (Azure Core Linux), Raven Industries, Property Meld, South Dakota Mines
- Research: Published Cybersecurity / Machine Learning Research Assistant (First Author)
- Project of Note: Azure-Init – Open-source agent for provisioning Azure VMs with Rust
- Personal Tech Stack: C++, Python, Rust, Web Development
- Academics: BS Computer Science + Minor in Mathematics (Summa Cum Laude) - South Dakota Mines - May 2025
Hello! I am a new graduate SWE for Microsoft Azure after graduating from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. During my time in college, I majored in computer science and minored in mathematics while earning the Summa Cum Laude title. I had the pleasure of doing 5 internships in college at companies like Microsoft and Raven Industries, totalling a total of 24 months of industry experience ranging from development to project management to webmaster. This is paired with a nearly two year long undergraduate research role where I was the first author on one published machine learning paper, and a joint author on an actuator attack survey paper. These positions can be seen more in-depth on my LinkedIn.
For the best look at my work, take a look at my pinned Azure-Init repo. This is a live open source repo that I created in my first week at Microsoft and served as my project for the summer! This product is an agent that provisions VMs for Microsoft's cloud, Azure. It was written entirely in Rust for added security. In my personal time, I have enjoyed working on lower level implementations of code. I have made a Python emulator of a CPU that first converted obj files to machine code in memory, and then ran assembly code from those instructions. Along with this, I have written a BASH-like shell in C that handles everything from parallel commands, to piped input/output, to maintaining a command history while also tab completing input. These will be found in my repo soon, but were completed outside of GitHub and added afterwards.
- Snowboarding
- Hiking
- Film Photography
- Reading History
- Anything Baseball
- First Year
- Test Driven Development
- Finite Structures
- Programming Techniques
- Introduction to Digital Systems
- Calculus I - III
- Second Year
- Analysis of Data Structures and Algorithms
- Database Management
- RISC Assembly
- Software Engineering and Design
- Linear Algebra
- Machine Learning
- Third Year
- Analysis of Algorithms
- CPU/GPU Organization and Architecture
- Cybersecurity
- Introduction to Data Science
- Abstract Algebra
- Operating Systems and VMs
- Fourth Year
- Networking and Data Communications
- Capstone Design
- Programming Langauges
- GUI Development