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1.5+ years as a software engineer — REST integrations across NetSuite, Concur & ADP, SuiteScript automations, token auth, retry-with-backoff, the whole enterprise circus. My code cut operating costs by 30% and made reimbursements 50% faster. Real systems, real users, real 2am deploys.

Then AWS happened. I moved to Arizona for my Master's in Cloud Engineering at ASU (GPA 3.9, thanks for asking) and went all in — SageMaker ML pipelines, Bedrock AI agents, GraphRAG platforms with Neo4j and Qdrant. One certification led to another. Now Kubernetes and Terraform are on the stove.

Somewhere in between, my team SHIFU took 2nd place at the AWS JAM hackathon at ASU. The trophy is metaphorical. The bragging is not.