Hi, I'm Janice!

I'm a rising senior studying Computer Science at Columbia University. Before I transferred into Columbia, I attended Occidental College. Over the past couple of years, I've held technical roles across a fun mix of spaces, from legacy media giants to fast-paced startups, while also leading engineering teams on campus. In my free time, I enjoy playing on the Columbia women's club basketball team and exploring New York City. Feel free to reach out! →

Skills

Languages

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptCJavaSQLSwiftHTML/CSS

Frameworks & Libraries

React.jsNode.jsExpress.jsFlaskTensorFlowOpenCVYoloReact NativeExpoStreamlitAstro

Developer Tools

GitDockerFirebaseMongoDBPostmanAndroid StudioVS CodeXcodePyCharmIntelliJEclipseFigma

Experience

Software Engineer Intern

Sept. 2026 - Apr. 2027 New York, NY

I am returning to the same team and will be based out of the 30 Rock office for the academic year.

Software Engineer Intern

June 2026 - Aug. 2026 Universal City, CA

I was a member of the AI DevOps & Reliability Engineering team within the Global Network & Distribution organization.
I architected a RAG pipeline that ingests over 50k daily ServiceNow alerts and SevOne network logs using MongoDB, Celery Beat, and FastEmbed, which powered natural language queries for the chatbot on Mario, the internal network automation platform.
I also built full-stack dashboard features in Vue.js to monitor usage of a firewall zone detection tool. This included developing paginated REST APIs and dynamic KPI charts. I reduced load times and tracked usage from over 20+ network engineers.
I designed and developed a prototype for a 'Growth Engine' employee hub, which included a personalized home page, an AI navigation assistant, and interactive tours. My team and I then presented the final solution to 50+ senior leaders.
I was also selected to be featured and interviewed (out of 400+ total interns) for an official NBCUniversal article: How NBCUniversal’s Summer Interns Are Shaping Their Future!

AI Product Engineer Intern

Feb. 2026 - May 2026 New York, NY

While balancing a full course load and extracurriculars, I also interned in-person at this Soho-based startup and worked directly with their founding engineers.
I built an automated LLM evaluation pipeline to continuously monitor the core property management agent and improve routing precision.
I automated agentic skill generation, which accelerated the deployment of 20+ autonomous skills.
I also helped prototype Voice AI models and migrate production LLM workflows to a new internal orchestration system.
I gained hands-on exposure to production-grade prompt engineering, agentic workflows, dynamic few-shot systems, and the complexities of LLM orchestration at scale.

Engineering Manager

Jan. 2026 - Present New York, NY

I oversee the engineering team behind Columbia Daily Spectator's mobile apps. I am also responsible for mentoring new trainees.
Features/changes I fully owned: Lion Dine (displays updated menus for all dining halls with live occupancies), ads, advanced analytics, Expo Router migration from React Navigation, universal links, Android expansion, large maintenance upgrades; helped with a major crosswords UI revamp.
Over 4000 total downloads on iOS!

Associate Engineer

Sept. 2025 - Dec. 2025 New York, NY

I helped build and maintain the iOS app that delivers news to the Columbia community and surrounding neighborhoods. Our main tools include React Native, Expo, and ArcXP. I collaborate with a team of engineers and designers to implement new features and fix bugs.
I have also helped develop Special Edition digital features for high-visibility news releases on the Columbia Daily Spectator website.
I am proud to be part of the Columbia Daily Spectator, the second-oldest college daily newspaper in the US! Spectator has achieved 3M+ views across all of its products and has won numerous awards for its journalistic impact.

Director of Systems

Mar. 2026 - Current New York, NY

Expanding on previous engineering responsibilities to include managing broader software and infrastructural decisions.

Lead Software Engineer

Sept. 2025 - Mar. 2026 New York, NY

I am a lead software engineer in the analytics department for Columbia's Division I baseball program. I am working on a full-stack web platform to centralize the team's schedules, analytics, practice plans, announcements, and R&D tools. I work closely with the coaching staff to understand their workflows and translate them into an intuitive UI/UX using Figma prototypes.
The frontend is built with React.js and we are using multiple AWS services for the backend, including Lambda.

Machine Learning Engineer Fellow

Aug. 2025 - Dec. 2025 Remote

I was selected to be a 2025 Break Through Tech AI Fellow and partnered with Chambers Capital Ventures to build a recommendation system to match EB-5 investors with projects.
I developed a Python prototype using Streamlit to display top-k matches with < 2-second latency, and trained cosine similarity, logistic regression, and XGBoost models.
My team and I collaborated closely with Chambers leadership on a weekly basis and presented our prototype at the end of the fellowship.

Artificial Intelligence Intern

June 2025 - Aug. 2025 El Segundo, CA

I was fortunate to intern at DIRECTV's Product Customer Experience Lab where I trained computer vision models (YOLOv11 + OpenCV) to recognize and monitor UI states and anomalies across DIRECTV products. This allowed us to automate quality assurance processes and improve KPI tracking.
With Python, I developed interfaces to view model inference on live video streams and wrote scripts with Witbe robots to automate performance monitoring and recovery actions.
During the annual Intern Summit, I gave a full lab tour to the entire intern cohort as well as many members of DIRECTV leadership. At the end of the summer, I presented my work to senior executives including the VP of Product Experience and received positive feedback.

Software Engineer Intern

Nov. 2024 - Feb. 2025 Remote

I gained valuable experience working in a startup environment and was mentored directly by the company's Head of Product.
I developed an SMS messaging application that automated workflows and anonymized communications by integrating Twilio and HubSpot APIs via Node.js backend and real-time webhooks.
I also compiled technical documentation and outlined detailed user stories for system integrations.

Senior Web Developer

May. 2024 - May 2025 Los Angeles, CA

I developed and maintained the official website for Occidental College's student newspaper with HTML, CSS, and WordPress.

Head Layout Editor

Sept. 2022 - May 2025 Los Angeles, CA

I designed page layouts for each print issue of The Occidental using Adobe InDesign.
I also supervised and trained a team of layout editors to ensure consistency and quality across all sections.

Research Programmer (SRAP Grant Recipient)

Feb. 2023 - July 2025 Los Angeles, CA

I spent over two years working under Dr. Susan Geffen and Dr. Chris Robinson on psychology research projects investigating multisensory perception.
I designed experiments from scratch with Python and PsychoPy software, and converted portions to JavaScript to deploy the studies on Pavlovia. Experiments were utilized in this publication: Modulating Multisensory Processing: Interactions Between Semantic Congruence and Temporal Synchrony.
I analyzed and cleaned the data using Python scripts.

Projects

Chorded

Fully functional iOS app that allows users to search, rate, and review albums.

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Script Hub

Native macOS app that wraps interactive Python scripts into a Command Center without needing to open the Terminal.

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Beam

Serverless P2P file transfer tool using PeerJS, WebRTC, and STUN/TURN servers to stream files directly between browsers without third-party storage. Authored cryptographic security module in this group project in Usable Security course.

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Notion Manager

Python CLI tool to quickly add entries to Notion databases, with support for flexible date formats and recurring entries.

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Sticky Bar

Lightweight menu bar app for quick notes on macOS.

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Youtube -> MP3 with Search, Metadata, Cover Art, and Trimming

Python CLI tool to search Youtube videos, trim audio, edit metadata, and set cover art.

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HTTP Web Server

Web server implemented in C, using socket programming. Final project in Columbia's Advanced Programming course.

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Sidebar Notes

Firefox extension that integrates a notepad into the native sidebar.

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2048 Solver

AI solver that uses an expectiminimax algorithm and heuristics to achieve score of 4096 almost every time.

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Paddle Groove

1v1 split-screen table tennis game built with Unity. Players wear full-body Sony Mocopi sensors.

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Prodecural Animation

A 3D flight sequence featuring a plane modeled from scratch in Blender, with precise keyframe animations for the aircraft and cameras handled entirely via scripting.

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