Work Experience


Employment

American Express

Software Engineer
February 2023 - Present
  • Collins accepted a full-time position at American Express, and is currently part of the Digital Acquisitions organization within AMEX
Software Engineer Intern
June 2022 - August 2022
  • Uplift application portal for international customer onboarding using ReactJS and Java backend.
  • Architected and built custom React hooks for passing critical rendering information from one component to another.
  • Built REST API with CRUD operations in Java for parsing payloads from API calls and writing information to PostgreSQL database
  • Wrote a query builder class using builder patterns in Java to streamline and unify PostgreSQL query execution
  • Frequently directed team of eight co-interns on what tasks to do and how to execute them to advance project requirements and meet sprint deadlines
  • Contributed documentation for setting up SSH keys and Git/GitHub to the company-wide developer handbook
  • Wrote documentation on setting up various application backend functions, including the REST AP
  • Founded Intern Spotlight, and program at AMEX that seeks to highlight the background of various interns in the company

Data Science for Social Good

Research Fellow
June 2021 - September 2021
  • I led the data engineering aspects on a team of four to build a prioritization model for classifying environmental complaints using Scikit Learn, achieving an accuracy of 90% and an estimated 80% reduction in complaint analysis time.
  • Wrote a data pipeline for preparing classification data from CSV files to optimized numpy matrices.
  • Deployed model on Azure Cloud with detailed documentation hosted on GitHub Pages using mkdocs.

Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Data Research Analyst
June 2020 - August 2020
  • Built and deployed a weak supervision model using python Snorkel to automatically label research papers for relevance in a vehicle detection and autonomous vehicles data corpus.
  • Trained the model on 100GB of data using Big Query and Apache Beam, resulting in a 90% model accuracy.
  • Wrote very detailed weekly documentation for the different experiments I tried while building the model.