Ian Pang

• Nadir

  A decentralized disaster verification platform combining AI satellite analysis with crowd-sourced human voting.

  • Next.js
  • Solana
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kubernetes
  Best Use of DigitalOcean HackIllinois 2026

• Canopy

  Decentralized parametric insurance protocol on XRPL that automates payouts from real-time weather data.

  • Next.js
  • XRPL
  • Python
  • LangGraph
  • PostgreSQL
  2nd Place, Ripple Prize TartanHacks 2026

• Obscurafy

  Privacy-first iOS app that scans photo libraries for sensitive data using on-device machine learning.

  • SwiftUI
  • CoreML
  • YOLO
  • Vision
  1st Place, Cybersecurity HackUMass 2026

1. Aug 2026 — Present

   Incoming Software Engineer Intern

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   • Incoming Software Engineer Intern on the Elastic Block Store (EBS) team.
2. Jun 2026 — Aug 2026

   Software Engineer Intern

   American Family Insurance

   • Designed a serverless AWS pipeline (Python, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB) to recover failed onboarding records, replacing manual database fixes with a simplified process while ensuring strict PII isolation.
   • Built a full-stack internal platform (Next.js, REST API) for end-to-end self-service record reprocessing and real-time agent status tracking, secured with Microsoft Entra ID and OAuth 2.0 SSO.
   • Architected CI/CD deployment pipelines and modular Infrastructure as Code templates to deploy the containerized platform (Docker, AWS ECS on Fargate), securing intranet traffic with Route 53, an ALB, and AWS WAF.
   • Standardized Datadog observability across 20+ gateway endpoints for 6 insurance partners, building custom latency metrics and time-series dashboards to proactively detect and isolate API bottlenecks.
3. Aug 2025 — Present

   Undergraduate Data Science Researcher

   FedEx · The Data Mine at Purdue

   • Built a Python simulation engine to model and optimize routing logic for 180,000+ daily packages.
   • Implemented data pipelines aggregating and cleaning 200,000+ raw records for warehouse capacity stress-testing.
4. May 2025 — May 2026

   Research Assistant

   Zhan Lab · Purdue University

   • Engineered a real-time embryo detection pipeline using OpenCV and PyTorch to process 120 FPS high-resolution microfluidic video, achieving 20 ms end-to-end latency from detection to inference.
   • Trained a ResNet-based CNN to classify embryo developmental stages with 80% accuracy based on 1,000+ embryo samples, and integrated Arduino control to direct viable embryos to separate channels for experimentation.
5. Jun 2025 — Aug 2025

   Software Engineer Intern

   Suga International Holdings Limited

   • Developed core digital signal processing features in C for an audio mixer, reducing CPU utilization by 40%.
   • Minimized system storage footprint by 70% with compression techniques, achieving sub-2MB deployment.
   • Designed and launched a dual-core MicroPython architecture with a custom WebSocket-based control server, enabling real-time audio command execution and decreasing operational latency from 120ms to 13ms.
   • Implemented CI/CD build and test pipelines accelerating development iterations across the product lifecycle.
6. Jun 2024 — Aug 2024

   Software Engineer Intern

   Suga International Holdings

   • Deployed real-time pet detection/navigation models on NVIDIA Jetson using YOLO at 99%+ accuracy.
   • Scaled an image preprocessing pipeline for 80,000+ images, doubling throughput.

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