Hello! My name is Cody and I'm a Software Engineer at Affirm on the Loans Platform Team. Before this, I worked at Amazon in the Financial Foundational Services organization.
My main interests lie in cloud computing and full stack development. I received both my masters (2023) and undergraduate (2021) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. During my time as a student, I worked under Brian Levine in the Rescue Lab.
Featured Projects
Hackathon Dashboard
A Ruby on Rails web app used for managing all aspects of a hackathon, with support for registration, hardware inventory, judging, mentorship, check in, and more. Dashboard is used by multiple hackathons and thousands of participants annually.
CitadelML
Train models and create prediction on fully-remote datasets. This centralized server coordinates all aspects of the CitadelML stack with FastAPI, Redis Queue, and MongoDB. Distributes tasks to associated CitadelML services and serves prediction and training results to client.
EleNa: Elevation-Based Navigation
The Elevation-Based Navigation App, or EleNa, is an altitude-aware program which can take elevation gain or loss into account when planning routes between two points. Unlike traditional mapping applications, EleNA allows users to specify a threshold distance that will search for the maximal or minimal elevation gain or loss.
Automatic Short-Answer Grading
This project uses transformer-based neural language models to score short open-ended questions. using SentenceBERT and cosine-similarity as a comparison metric. Furthermore, the multitask performance of the T5 - Text-To-Text transformer model is leveraged and a novel way of combining its downstream tasks for Automatic Short-Answer Grading is proposed.
Underwater Fish Localization and Classification
Using a new dataset consisting of underwater photos of cold-water fish species across in low-light high-turbidity environments, multiple dataset enhancement techniques are implemented to improve image features. Then, a new YOLOv7 model is trained on this dataset and a new baseline for underwater fish localization and classification is established.
CloudTutor
CloudTutor is an intelligent tutoring system designed to provide students with a personalized learning experience in cloud computing. This paper describes the design of the CloudTutor system, and presents a framework for the development of the intelligent tutoring system and its effectiveness in improving student learning.
Professional Experience
Software Development Engineer II
@ Affirm
Winter 2024 - Present
Fully Remote & Seattle, WA
Software Development Engineer
@ Amazon
Summer 2023 - Winter 2024
Seattle, WA
Graduate Research Assistant
@ Rescue Lab - UMass Amherst
Fall 2021 - Spring 2023
Amherst, MA
Software Development Engineer Intern
@ Amazon
Summer 2022
Seattle, WA
Software Engineering Intern
@ Mathworks
Summer 2021
Fully Remote
Undergraduate Research Assistant
@ Rescue Lab - UMass Amherst
Winter 2020 - Spring 2021
Fully Remote
Undergraduate Course Assistant
@ College of Information and Computer Science - UMass Amherst
Fall 2019 - Winter 2020
Amherst, MA
Software Engineering Intern
@ Mathworks
Summer 2020
Fully Remote
Cybersecurity Intern
@ ISO New England
Summer 2019
Holyoke, MA
IT Intern
@ Altek Electronics
Summer 2018
Torrington, CT
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