Education

University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, Ann Arbor, MI
Master of Science Applied Physics, December 2012
Rackham Merit Fellowship and Summer Institute
Sloan Scholar

University of Delaware, College of Engineering, Newark, DE
Bachelor of Engineering, May 2010
Electrical Engineering, Minor: Physics, GPA: 3.62
R.I.S.E Program Scholar
Roscoe M. Lewis, Jr. 1950 Scholarship
IEEE Secretary (2009), President (2008), Vice President (2007)
Honors Program and Dean’s List (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
Latino Student of Distinction (2007, 2008, 2009)

Professional Experience

Anatha (Nov 2021 – June 2022)
Full-time Technical Lead – Web3 NFT Platform
Node, React, NextJS, Vercel, Turborepo, Solidity

The Frisch School (March 2021 – June 2021)
Modern Orthodox Jewish Yeshiva – Interim 11th Grade Teacher
AP Computer Science, Honors & Accelerated Physics

Billtrust (March 2019 – Oct 2020)
Senior Web Developer – Business Payments Network (BPN)
C#, Microservices, Event driven architecture, Angular

Anatha (May 2018 – Aug 2018)
Freelance Web Developer – Offline cryptocurrency smart wallet
Node, Electron, React, Redux, D3

Knowledgine (November 2017 – February 2019)
CTO – Education Technology Startup
MEAN stack, AWS

Billtrust (August 2014 – September 2017)
Web Developer – Agile development environment SaaS platform developer primarily supporting B2B clients with payment cycle management.
Multi platform/service architecture utilizing LAMP, WAMP, IIS, Node technologies.
Ubiquitous external and internal REST API layers for service/platform communication.
PHP – Zend, Phalcon, Laravel, PHPUnit, Composer
JS – jQuery, Angular, TypeScript, Karma, Jasmine, Gulp, Node
Misc. – C#, Python, RabbitMQ, AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Git, SVN

Dooble, Inc. (January 2014 – May 2014)
JavaScript Developer
Startup company developing social application MEAN stack, NGINX, Heroku, AWS

Graduate Research (Summer 2012)
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Rand
Optical Imaging through Inhomogeneous Media

Graduate Research (Summer 2010)
Advisor: Dr. Mahta Moghaddam
Smart Sensor Webs

Undergraduate Research (Summer 2008 – Spring 2010)
Advisor: Dr. Takashi Buma
Optical Coherence Elastography Imaging

Publications

R. Zurakowski, M. Churgin, C. Perez, M. Rodriguez, Approximate-model closed-loop minimal sampling method for HIV viral-load minima detection. American Control Conference, 2011, pp. 5418-5419.