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.