A little about me.
Hi. I'm Riley, a computer science and data science student at the University of Virginia, graduating in May, 2025.
At UVA, I'm a teaching assistant for Computer Systems and Organization I and II, as well as a developer at theCourseForum.
Beyond academics, I've interned for Dell Technologies, the United States Navy, and Virginia Railway Express.
Subjects I really enjoy learning about are operating systems, networks, computer hardware, distributed systems, and backend services.
I also like engaging with data science, especially in regards to "big data" and designing system architecture built to support large data aggregation and transformations.
In my free time I enjoy reading and creative writing, playing guitar, and sports like tennis or mountain biking. Outside of tech, I love learning about finance, history, motorsports, and new recipes to cook poorly.
Work experience.
During the Summer of 2024, I was a software engineering intern at Dell Technologies working for on the Powerstore team. I built developer tools for bottleneck identification and performance profiling on backend components near the xNVMe drive interface, and FIO workload automation tooling that could be run against devices on the appliance itself. I also spent some time backporting new features into legacy performance analyis tools.
I'm a computer science teaching assistant at the University of Virginia where I instruct for Computer Systems and Organization I and II, the two introductory systems courses that teach about hardware design, circuits, x86 assembly, and C programming to learn about concurrency, virtual memory, and Linux internals.
Summer of 2023, after my final year at community college, I was a software engineering intern for the United States Navy, at the Dahlgren research facility . As a part of the CIAT team, I worked on naval training software where I spent most of my time improving the existing software by addressing security concerns, outdated programming methodologies, and adding unit tests. I was able to experience working on a large software project, and was introduced to things like CI/CD, agile development, proper version control, and working in a lab with hardware appliances.
From the Summer of 2022 to Spring of 2023, I was an information technology intern at Virginia Railway Express . As my first 'proper' job, I learned a lot about working in a professional environment. Technically, I did a lot of physical networking both in-office and at train stations, shell scripting to automate tasks and aggegrate data, and general help desk stuff. This was a super unique experience, and easily one of my favorite places to work at.