Sthavir M.

New York, New York, United States

About

Experience

  • Research Assistant at Tow Center for Digital Journalism
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    - Machine learning model training and testing - Engineering computational & AI tools for journalism

  • Software Engineer at Bowtie Life Insurance Company
    Feb 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Full-stack Developer at Kin Technology
    Aug 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

    - Engineered ReactJS frontend web application to modern UI/UX standards. - Efficiently added features to React Native app running on custom Android firmware, used to interface with and control STM hardware components. - Deployed and managed backend web server written in Django, serving a REST API.

  • Writing Center Tutor at The University of Hong Kong
    Sep 2019 - May 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

    - Assessed current reading levels and planned optimal educational strategies to help students improve comprehension and coherence skills. - Crafted effective learning plans to address students' writing weaknesses and strengths. Provided individual tutoring sessions for students struggling in composition writing. - Average feedback rating of 4.95/5 over entire period of employment, in top 5% of tutors.

  • Software Engineer Intern at CariKture
    Jul 2020 - Aug 2020 · 2 mos

    - Designed and implemented extension for Chromium browsers to crawl YouTube and allow shared access to timestamp-coded data. - Wrote all technical documentation for project. - Wrote client-side caching algorithm that reduced round-trip latency by 70%.