My name is Aaron, and I am a 4th-year student studying computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. I am pursuing my bachelors and masters degrees in computer science here at WPI, both of which I will be obtaining in May 2022.
Besides being a CS major at WPI, I'm the web secretary of the computer science honor society Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the treasurer of the Greenhouse and Horticulture Club and a member of WPI's "Data Driven Materials Science" research group, which is a joint computer science, data science, and materials science research team studying creating data science solutions for materials science problems. I'm also a student assistant, where I help students with a variety of computer science classes.
Outside of school, I like playing basketball, cooking, playing video games, the outdoors, and coding in my free time. I also worked at theCoderSchool in Sudbury, MA where I taught kids of many ages to code in languages like JavaScript, Python, and Scratch.
In the summer of 2020 (the summer of my sophomore year), I worked at MathWorks in Natick, MA as a software engineering intern. MathWorks is best known for their main product MATLAB, and I worked on the Release Engineering team. In this role, I used MathWorks' internal continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools to make sure that MATLAB, Simulink, and other products built and tested without failures. This gave me a great opportunity to work outside of my comfort zone and learn a lot about the software development lifecycle. I also worked with SQL and Perl to create an internal tool that the Release Engineering team will continue to use after my summer was over.
In the summer of 2021, I returned to MathWorks as a software engineering intern. This time around, I worked with the Data Science Types development team. My main project was working to improve MATLAB's tabular display by truncating large tables. I went through the full software engineering design process, and eventually presented my work to several experienced MathWorks developers and managers. This significantly improved performance of tabular display, and will likely impact the many users who work with tables. Another project I worked on involved utilizing new C++ functionality to improve the performance of MATLAB functions that are written in C++. This showed potential to reduce bottlenecks in functions, and resulted in significantly reduced calling overhead in many cases.
At WPI, I'm the web secretary of the CS honor society Upsilon Pi Epsilon, a member of a joint CS/Materials Science research team "Data Driven Materials Science," a student assistant, and the treasurer of the Greenhouse and Horticulture Club.
Outside of school, I like to cook, play sports, and spend my time outdoors when possible.
In the summer of 2020, I worked as a software engineering intern at MathWorks in Natick, MA. I learned about CI/CD and developed an internal tool as a member of the Release Engineering team and got a great overview of the software development lifecycle.
I returned to MathWorks in the summer of 2021, where I worked with the Data Science Types team to design and improve the display of tabular objects in MATLAB and improve the performance of various C++ functions.