latency improvement after decomposing a legacy monolith
Software engineering portfolio · 2026
Backend systems built for scale, speed, and recovery.
I’m Merry, a software engineer working across distributed backends, agentic AI, and performance-critical ML systems. I build resilient infrastructure, measure the bottlenecks, and turn prototypes into systems that keep working under load.
01 / At a glance
Measured by what ships and improves.
requests per second added through an event-driven Kafka pipeline
of production logs processed every day by a fault-tolerant ETL pipeline
Spark · Airflow · AWS02 / Experience
Building across the stack.
Agentic AI Engineer Intern · AIMING Lab
- Co-built core components of an end-to-end multi-agent AI research system, orchestrating a 23-stage pipeline from research question to conference-ready paper; the open-source project reached 14.5k GitHub stars.
- Designed a human-in-the-loop ablation across five intervention strategies, identifying six high-stakes decision gates that increased agent evaluation scores from 4.0 to 7.3 while preserving autonomous execution.
- Built a fault-tolerant multi-agent recovery policy with checkpointing and REFINE / REDESIGN / PIVOT paths, enabling stage-level recovery instead of full-pipeline restarts and saving ~$2K per failure in redundant LLM calls.
- Python
- Claude Code
- OpenAI Codex
- Agent orchestration
- YAML / JSON
Backend Software Engineer Intern · Synergies Intelligence
Refactored a legacy monolith into Java Spring Boot microservices, improving latency by 33%. Built a Kafka event pipeline that removed 30% of billing delay and added 2,000 RPS, then redesigned PostgreSQL schemas and indexes to reduce duplicate-record errors by 95%.
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Kafka
- PostgreSQL
- Microservices
C++ Software Engineer Intern · UNC Computer Science
Led post-training quantization for a closed-loop reinforcement-learning controller deployed to ESP32-S3. Achieved 4× faster response and 27% lower power use, then removed a 32 KB cache bottleneck with configurable C++ tiling to cut dense-layer latency by approximately 62%.
- C++
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- ESP-IDF
- Embedded ML
Backend Software Engineer Intern · Auneau Tech Co.
Improved a Spark and Airflow ETL pipeline handling 1.4 TB of logs per day, reducing runtime by 28%. Accelerated portfolio APIs for 20,000 real-time users with Redis and AWS Lambda validation, lowering P95 latency by 700 ms and malformed-record incidents by 75%.
- Spark
- Airflow
- Redis
- AWS Lambda
- Data validation
03 / How I build
A product-minded engineering loop.
04 / Selected projects
Code with a reason to exist.
AutoResearchClaw
An autonomous research system with experiment generation, execution, peer review, failure recovery, and a bounded refinement policy designed to control repeated extraction and API costs.
LLM Compression & Bias
A reproducible benchmark spanning 11 compression settings, three models, and 108 configurations, with calibration and ECE analysis supported by more than 400 generated figures.
Surgical Coaching AI
A medical AI coach for identifying and correcting surgical errors, supported by an AI-human verification pipeline with two automated LLM/VLM checkers and expert medical evaluation.
05 / Leadership
Leading teams beyond the codebase.
Students mentored
Teaching Assistant & Project Manager
Managed 120 students across 30+ Java and React projects, facilitating Agile sprints, architecture reviews, and collaborative Git workflows.
- Technical mentorship
- Architecture
- Agile
Organization members
Founder · MAPS Research
Founded and led an 80-member nonprofit helping traditional industries adopt AI, contributing to a 15.3% increase in average revenue over one year.
- Organization building
- AI adoption
- Strategy
Live shows managed
President · Stand-up Comedy Club
Managed 110 student comedy live shows, mentored new performers, and developed the real-time communication skills needed to read and engage a room.
- Public speaking
- Mentorship
- Live operations