Edward
Sung

August 2026 — Present

Software Engineering Intern

NASA

Designing a containerized web replacement for Qt desktop tools in the USS mission training system, integrating with the existing ActiveMQ/HTTP backend to cut maintenance burden and support distributed deploymentBuilding a video streaming integration between the Mission Training Center's Orion simulator and CODA, the instructor-facing operations data platform, replacing manual workarounds with a program-agnostic API design reusable across future spacecraft programsPresenting architecture options and technology stack recommendations in a formal design review to Training Systems engineers

June 2026 — August 2026

Software Engineer Intern

Avanade

Prototyped a real-time and batch speech-to-text pipeline on Databricks/Azure for a client engagement, converting live and recorded audio into structured text outputs and presenting prototype iterations directly to the clientBenchmarked on-device versus cloud LLM deployments on latency, security, and cost to drive the architecture decision

February 2026 — May 2026

Software Engineer Intern

Varmodel

Architected a 3-stage video upload pipeline with presigned URLs to DigitalOcean Spaces, enabling direct client uploads and eliminating server-side FFmpeg processing, reducing upload latency by 40%Owned the Stripe billing integration end-to-end, building idempotent webhook processing with retry/failure handling and subscription lifecycle management, and shipped real-time chat using Django Channels WebSocketsReplaced keyword-based partner search with a RAG discovery system using OpenAI embeddings and Qdrant vector search, improving match relevance across the platform

June 2025 — May 2027 (Expected)

Master of Science in Computer Science

University of Southern California

GPA: 3.5

June 2023 — May 2025

Software Engineer

FAST Enterprises

Sole engineer for enforcement modules in Massachusetts state tax systems, owning rule evaluation, validation, and automated enforcement actions over 2M+ taxpayer financial recordsIncreased revenue recovery efficiency by 15% by orchestrating multi-step enforcement workflows end-to-endStabilized a large-scale deployment during production incidents by fixing frontend-backend contract mismatches and unhandled API failure states through schema validation and error handling, cutting crash rate from 20% to 5%Designed and shipped an internal audit tool used by 50+ staff, halving audit time from 60 to 30 minutes per caseReduced page load time from 10s to 4s across 10K+ daily transactions by analyzing query logs and execution plans, rewriting joins, adding composite indexes on high-cardinality columns, and removing redundant sub-queriesMentored 2 engineering interns and worked directly with Massachusetts state agency stakeholders on enforcement system delivery

June 2022 — May 2023

Software Engineer Intern

Clark County Water Reclamation District

Built the agency's first mobile app using React Native and REST APIs, digitizing paper-based vehicle checkout workflows for 400+ employees, and cut average request latency from 287ms to 94ms by restructuring backend queries

August 2020 — May 2023

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Dean's List | GPA: 3.4

2026

Rushes

• —Shipped and notarized a macOS app supporting natural-language video search by running MobileCLIP-S0's dual image/text encoders fully on-device via Core ML
• —Designed a concurrent Vision pipeline that auto-tags footage on import, keeping the UI responsive while indexing runs in the background

2026

Steering-Time Guidance for a Vision-Language-Action Driving Model

• —Built an A/B experiment harness with paired-seed baseline-vs-guided runs, structured CSV/JSON logging, per-pair trajectory artifacts, and an ADE/FDE metrics module

2025

Computational Image Puzzle Solver

• —Built a computer vision system that reconstructs images from scattered puzzle pieces, supporting 4 rotation orientations and automatic grid inference
• —Optimized solver using beam search (5000 states) with precomputed pairwise compatibility caching across rotations
• —Developed OpenCV pipeline for piece extraction using contour detection, morphological filtering, Sobel gradients, and artifact removal

2023

BlockMo

• —Cryptocurrency web application which allows users to conduct transactions and mine new currency.
• —Utilizes a hashing algorithm designed with encryption best practices.
• —Features 2-step email verification and auto-rotating session tokens.

2023

Load Balancer

• —Load balancer using a round-robin algorithm to distribute requests across a set of backend services with retry support.
• —Performs active health checking and passive recovery for unhealthy backends.

2022

Bulletin

• —Social media application built with a modern full-stack: React, Node.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, and Apollo.
• —Supports posts, comments, and real-time updates.

2022

VolunteerOne

• —Peer-based mobile app that connects volunteers to community opportunities and events.
• —Matches volunteers to suitable opportunities based on skills, interests, and experience.

2022

Pregnancy Tracker

• —Comprehensive pregnancy tracking app with three user portals — Patient, Doctor, and System Admin.
• —Each portal provides tailored functionality for managing and tracking information throughout the pregnancy journey.

2022

Shell in Go

• —A simple Unix shell for macOS built from scratch in Go.