Software Engineer - .NET & full-stack web, embedded systems, data engineering - Purdue EET '26

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Software engineer graduating May 2026 from Purdue (BS EET, Computer Engineering Tech). Two summers at Nucor building production .NET services, real-time dashboards, and automated reporting systems in steel manufacturing.

Available for full-time roles starting May 2026.

• .NET & Full-Stack: Blazor dashboards, SQL Server optimization, Quartz.NET automated reporting, VB-to-.NET migrations
• Data Engineering: Kafka/Spark/Airflow pipelines, ML forecasting (XGBoost, Prophet), AWS ECS deployments
• Embedded Systems: ESP32/FreeRTOS firmware, binary protocols, DSP, industrial controls
• Systems Programming: Redis-like cache in C, distributed workflow orchestrator, POSIX networking

Nucor Corporation - Software / Automation Engineering Intern | Darlington, SC | May-Aug 2024; May-Aug 2025

• Developed and maintained Blazor/.NET real-time operator dashboards and robust back-end services, enhancing process transparency and improving steel production workflows.
• Led system integration projects: scoped, specified, and coordinated implementation of new automation systems, ensuring seamless startup, cross-team adoption, and operational reliability.
• Managed and analyzed production data in SQL Server/QMOS databases; developed optimized queries and recommended new tables/columns to support process improvement.
• Built automated reporting and alert systems using Quartz.NET with real-time email notifications for maintenance and quality events, reducing manual monitoring and accelerating issue response.
• Migrated legacy Visual Basic applications to .NET/Blazor, reducing technical debt and supporting future scalability/maintainability; utilized Git for code management across concurrent streams, peer code reviews, and codebase integrity.
• Collaborated with production teams and led project meetings; conducted comprehensive testing and validation with multi-disciplinary stakeholders while prioritizing deliverables and shipping on time with high safety and quality standards.

• XGBoost model achieving 11% MAPE and R² = 0.91 on 6-week holdout across 1,115 stores
• K-means segmentation producing 4 actionable store clusters (silhouette > 0.4)
• Interactive 4-page Streamlit dashboard + FastAPI /predict endpoint, deployed on AWS ECS Fargate
• 20+ engineered features: lag, rolling stats, holiday flags, competition proximity, promo duration

• 100+ events/sec Kafka ingestion with PySpark Structured Streaming (10-min watermark, dead-letter queue)
• Medallion data lake (Bronze/Silver/Gold) with z-score anomaly detection and data lineage tracking
• Airflow orchestration with SLA monitoring, data freshness sensors, and Slack alerts
• Great Expectations validation at every layer; Grafana dashboard with 11 panels and 7 alert rules

• Distributed execution engine: 25/25 runs in 15.94s (1.57 runs/s) with 0 failures
• DAG validation, Redis Streams consumer groups, and Postgres durable run/task state
• Lease/heartbeat recovery with retry/backoff, dead-letter routing, and idempotency-key dedupe
• Scheduling with cron triggers + observability (incident drill and postmortem runbook)

• Multi-tenant control-plane with deterministic rule + percentage rollout evaluation
• JavaScript SDK with local cache and refresh loop; admin UI for flag CRUD/publish
• Idempotency middleware, RBAC, tenant quota controls, and audit logging
• Load-test harness, operations docs, and live end-to-end smoke test suite

• sipeed/picoclaw - PR #213 (Status: Open): refactored providers by protocol family (discussion #122) and completed review-requested hardening (shared protocol types, Anthropic api_base propagation, compatibility adapters, and expanded auth/routing/proxy test coverage). +1,791/-770 across 13 files.
• sipeed/picoclaw - PR #211 (Status: Open): security hardening (#179) and default model/CI fixes (#199); added config validation, Slack channel sanitization, cron service hardening, and expanded test coverage. +326/-39 across 11 files.
• sipeed/picoclaw - PR #56 (Status: Merged): fixed OpenAI device-code auth parsing for string/numeric poll intervals with targeted tests and clearer headless guidance.
• databricks/cli - PR #4504 (Status: Open): fixed non-bundle auth resolution so workspace commands no longer implicitly use bundle default targets over environment credentials; preserved explicit target behavior and added regression tests.
• databricks/cli - PR #4495 (Status: Closed): fixed AppKit TypeScript tRPC template usage by replacing unsupported request-context calls with WorkspaceClient.
• databricks/databricks-sdk-py - PR #1258 (Status: Open): fixed Config subclass attribute discovery/caching for inherited ConfigAttribute fields with regression coverage.
• bloomberg/comdb2 - PR #5731 (Status: Open): preserved JDBC metadata cursors by isolating version lookup from active getTables() result-set flow.
• google/langextract - PR #359 (Status: Open): fixed Gemini batch cache hashing for Enum/dataclass settings with deterministic regression tests.

Purdue University - B.S. Electrical Engineering Technology (Computer Engineering Technology) | Minor: Computer & IT | Certificate: Entrepreneurship & Innovation | Expected May 2026

Relevant Coursework: Embedded Digital Systems, Advanced Embedded Systems, DSP, Advanced DSP, Industrial Controls, DAQ, Wireless Communications, Systems Development, IT Architecture, Network Engineering, Electronic Prototype Development, Concurrent Digital Systems

Languages: C#, TypeScript, Java, Python, C, C++ Frontend: Next.js, React, Tailwind, accessibility, SEO Data: pandas, scikit-learn, XGBoost, Prophet, PySpark, Kafka, Airflow, Redshift, Great Expectations, Streamlit Embedded: ESP32, FreeRTOS, Arduino, I2C, ADC, drivers, PID, PWM, binary protocols Backend/DB: .NET (ASP.NET Core, Blazor), REST/gRPC, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Redis, NextAuth, Socket.io Cloud/DevOps: AWS (S3, ECR, ECS, Redshift, MSK, EMR, MWAA, CloudFront, Route 53), Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions Testing: xUnit, pytest, Great Expectations

• Delta Tau Delta | DEI Chair | Aug 2024 - Present - Led mentorship programs pairing 15+ new members with upperclassmen; organized campus inclusion events and designed repeatable onboarding playbooks.
• NSBE | Member | Sep 2022 - Present - Collaborated on team engineering projects in C#, Java, and Python; supported recruiting at career fairs and community outreach.

Bear, DE | jmahotie@purdue.edu

Open to roles in software engineering, data engineering, full-stack, and embedded systems.