hi! i'm nathan 👋
i just graduated at uc berkeley (go bears!) studying data science & computer science. my academic interests lie in machine learning and data engineering pipelines.
currently, i'm focused on scalable cloud-native architectures, designing event-driven data systems, and actively looking for new grad and full-time opportunities. beyond writing code, i'm an avid photographer capturing urban structures and natural landscapes.
in my free time, i like to go sidequesting with my camera, hit the gym to clear my head, or travel the world.
University of California, Berkeley
Class of 2026GPA: 3.75
Focus: Data Engineering & Machine Learning.
Computer Science
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to be continued...Data Engineer Intern
May 2025 - Aug. 2025- Engineered a real-time event-processing pipeline handling 100K+ events/day, adding schema validation and S3 execution traces to support deterministic replay and faster incident debugging.
- Enhanced system reliability by implementing DynamoDB idempotency keys to handle retry spikes and configuring CloudWatch alarms, cutting real-time execution failures by 62%.
- Analyzed catering and digital-media footprint data to identify decarbonization opportunities representing up to 76% of modeled event emissions
Software Engineer
Jan. 2025 - May 2025- Reduced time-to-production for data features by half by standardizing analytics-to-engineering integration workflows and implementation handoffs
- Removed manual mobile releases to TestFlight and Google Play with Fastlane and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time from hours to minutes
- Led a three-engineer migration of a Swift iOS application to Flutter, defining the architecture and technical milestones while consolidating platform-specific code into a shared codebase.
Data Science Intern
Jun. 2024 - Aug. 2024- Developed statistical forecasting pipelines and inventory anomaly detection across 4,000+ SKUs, identifying seasonal surges to improve supply chain and reduce inventory shrinkage by 60%.
- Reduced API response latency by 78% by minimizing response payloads and introducing server-side caching for frequently accessed inventory data.
- Reconstructed a real-time SAP inventory sync using incremental pulls and upserts into PostgreSQL which reduced manual processing substantially and enabled automated invoicing for all customers
Shift Manager
Sep. 2021 - Jun. 2024- Directed a team of 15+ staff members by managing end-to-end scheduling, hiring, and onboarding, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment in a fast-paced setting.
- Evaluated and optimized front and back-of-house workflows to eliminate operational bottlenecks, directly improving service speed and team efficiency during peak volume hours.
- Spearheaded daily operations over a three-year tenure, serving as the primary escalation point for resolving complex customer concerns and enforcing consistent quality standards.
CardboardDex
Active (2026)A full-stack trading card market platform that pairs canonical catalog data and market prices from multiple API sources to deliver real-time price trends, arbitrage analytics, and investment signals.
Live Semantic Market
Completed (2026)An event-driven data pipeline that uses zero-shot extraction, vector search, and clustering to process financial news into deduplicated market intelligence.
Clickbait Classifier
Completed (2026)Fine-tuned a BERT-based classifier on 18K social-news titles; achieved 0.89 F1 and 91% accuracy on a held-out test set, outperforming a TF-IDF logistic regression baseline by +0.14 F1 points.
ItineraryAI
Completed (2026)Built a chat-based travel concierge that generates structured itineraries from a single prompt and shipped a web dashboard for trip planning (budgets, maps, calendar sync).
The IBD Digest
Completed (2025)Built an offline-first IBD companion app for 5,000+ users (recipes, ingredient libraries, SIBDQ assessment) with persistent onboarding and local state persistence.
Spotify Analytics
Completed (2025)Personal listening telemetry dashboard showing profile insights, favorite genres, and user recommendations.
SimplyMail
Completed (2024)Modern web Gmail client focused on high performance, clean visual interfaces, and secure Gmail API integrations.
