My Story

If you are looking for my resume, please email me or use my Linkedin Profile.

I wish everyone did a kind of history for their careers instead, so here’s mine:

Left Amazon and went to a startup called Made Renovation. I’ve always loved interior design. When I bought my first home, a friend told me that the only things you can’t change about a home are where it is located and how big the lot size is. My own home renovation projects have been really exciting and I want other people to have that same feeling.
Moved to Austin, TX! I picked Security Products team out of three options in Austin, TX. I left behind my whole world in Bellevue/Seattle for sunnier skies and a chance to work in Security on a cool internal product that was one of my favorite internal tools at Amazon.
Moved to Outbound Communications Team so I could work alongside data scientists doing ML. I thought ML was so cool I had to learn more.
Moved to Flex Account Management Team for the opportunity. Always wanted to work in Transportation/Logistics/Operations at Amazon, but that sounded way over my head until now!
Moved to AWS WorkSpaces Client Team in the newly opened Bellevue office to cut down the commute.
Moved to Ship to Store team within Sports/Outdoors/Toys joining some fantastic people I worked with in Prime Delivery Experience.
Started working at Amazon. Started with my choice of overall division of Amazon that existed at the time. Picked Retail because I love shopping and shopping online, then within Retail, picked Prime over some subsidiary and global website options. Ended up on Prime Delivery Experience team.
Worked on a startup during the Summer as the only engineer ( - met them at an Entrepreneurship Pitch Meeting in the UNC CS dept). I quit after only a couple weeks. I learned a lot about what I needed to learn. I did a few hackathons in college, but I wasn’t as passionate about those projects as I was this.
Applied to a lot of places for entry-level full-time Developer positions. Got Xerox and Amazon. Picked Amazon.
Didn’t get the full time offer from that. I did get a scholarship from them, though, and the money helped me a lot my senior year.
Re-interviewed for SDE Intern out of my choice of PM/Test/SDE Internship for the next summer and got the internship.
Dropped off my resume with Microsoft at a career fair and their tech talk. Got the Explore Microsoft Internship.
My older brother said over secret Thanksgiving pizza (not a conspiracy! Our grandma just underestimated how much we eat since we weren’t 8 years old anymore, Bless her heart) to take as many Computer Science classes as possible as a backup plan - better yet major in it. Got back to college and changed my major.
Went to UNC Chapel Hill not locking in that I wanted to be a Software Engineer just yet.
Took my first programming class in Junior year of High school and my second programming class in Senior year of High school. I placed in the high performing group in my second programming class. The class of about 30 was split up into 3 groups. Group 1 was high performing and helped Group 3 that was struggling. Group 2 continued the assignments at the regular pace.