Edward
Sung

Incoming August 2026

Software Engineering Intern

NASA

June 2026 — August 2026

Software Engineer Intern

Avanade

Leading prototype development for a speech-to-text engagement, converting real-time and recorded audio into structured text outputs on a Databricks and Azure stack, and presenting prototype iterations directly to the clientBenchmarking on-device versus cloud LLM deployments across latency, security, and scalability to guide architecture selection for environments with intermittent or restricted connectivity

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 (subscription management, webhook handling) and shipped real-time chat using Django Channels WebSocketsReplaced keyword-based partner search with a RAG discovery system using OpenAI and Gemini 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

Owned enforcement modules end-to-end as the sole engineer, orchestrating multi-step workflows across Massachusetts state tax systems, integrating validation, rule evaluation, and automated actions over 2M+ records, increasing revenue recovery efficiency by 15%Responded to production incidents and stabilized a large-scale deployment by fixing frontend-backend contract mismatches and unhandled API failure states through schema validation and improved error handling, reducing crash rate from 20% to 5%Designed and implemented an audit tool used by 50+ internal users, reducing average audit time from 60 minutes to 30 minutes per case and eliminating clerical errors per audit cycleReduced 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

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.