Work Experience
Software Engineering Intern
MTS Systems Corporation - Eden Prairie, MN
May 2020 - Current
MTS
Systems Corporation is a leading global supplier of test, simulation, and measurement systems in
the industries of vehicles, aircraft, biomedical devices, and civil structures. Throughout my
time as a Software Engineering intern here, I gained exposure to various leaders of the industry
that provided me an abundance of expertise and experience in the software engineering field. I
primarily worked with the RPC Team where I was able to contribute to the major development of
their modern RPC Connect application. My first project involved writing automation scripts with
C# and Iron Python for benchmark testing to measure timing performances. These statistical
results would be relayed to the marketing team at MTS, and the data was sourced from Jaguar Land
Rover and General Motors. Working with another intern over the summer, I learned the critical
software development practice of pair programming. Learning how to remotely collaborate honed my
communication skills and vastly increased our code quality. My next significant project was
converting over 1200 icons throughout the Connect application from PNG files to SVGs. This was
implemented through WPF and XAML modifications to their references in the codebase, and a
third-party bash script. We were able to resolve all scalability and resolution issues with the
application icons for our clients. My last project involved performing critical QA and regression
testing on the application's plotting features before initial release to clients. Some other software
tools and technologies I utilized at MTS were: Azure DevOps, Git version control, and Visual Studio.
Lead Software Development Intern
Encephalo Investments - Minneapolis, MN
December 2019 - September 2020
Encephalo
Investments is a long and short investment firm with divisions in equity research and
quantitative analysis. When the firm initially started up, I joined as a Quantitative Analysis
intern which developed my programming competency and financial intuition. My first project
involved developing screening software built with Python, ReactJS, and Firebase which expedited
research processes through quantitative insights. I additionally worked on a portfolio
performance indicator tool which was an auxiliary to manual portfolio management that used Monte
Carlo simulations to judge the future performance of different equities. This was also built
with Python and the Flask framework, and we thoroughly leaned on Git version control for
collaboration efficiency. I transitioned into a project management role as our company expanded
and became the Lead Software Development Intern in May 2020. I was given the task of leading our
weekly meetings as well as managing a small group of interns. I facilitated the software
development team to ensure the execution of Agile and Scrum methodologies, and I assigned out
appropriate tasks from our project backlog to maximize efficiency. Furthermore, I developed and
conducted interview and hiring processes to source top candidates for our software development and
financial engineering teams.
