constsylvester={location: "Ithaca, NY 🎓",education: "Cornell University | CS & Information Science | Class of 2028",currentRole: "Software Engineering Intern @ Salesforce",focus: ["Distributed Systems","AI Agents","Real-Time Data Processing"],achievements: {salesforce: "Built distributed SDK cutting integration boilerplate by 90%",neuralseek: "Automated 80% of customer inquiries (2hrs → 5mins)",africanLanguagesLab: "AI models outperforming Google Translate (61 vs 55 BLEU)",janeStreet: "Selected 1 of 51 from 6,000+ applicants",research: "ACL 2026 Oral: 40 languages, 19B tokens, 12K hours speech",openSource: "2 merged PRs to Rust standard library (100K+ ⭐)"},askMeAbout: ["Building distributed systems at scale","AI agent orchestration & memory systems","Getting into competitive SWE programs","Contributing to major open source projects"]};Software Engineering Intern(May - Aug 2026)
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 Swift • SwiftUI • Flask • Stripe iOS carpooling platform with GPS tracking & payments ✅ 60% cost reduction • 40+ REST endpoints • 95% uptime |   React • Node.js • PyTorch • PostgreSQL E-commerce with AI recommendations ✅ 94% accuracy • 80% less manual oversight |
 Dash • Plotly • Python • AWS Real-time weather analytics platform ✅ Serving 30K+ users • 40% accuracy boost |  Open Source • Systems Programming Merged PRs to Rust standard library ✅ 2 PRs merged • 100K+ stars |
🎯 Built distributed SDK reducing boilerplate by 90% at Salesforce
🤖 Automated 80% of customer service inquiries at NeuralSeek
🏆 Selected 1 of 51 students for Jane Street FOCUS Program
📝 ACL 2026 Oral - Co-authored low-resource African NLP paper
🦀 Merged 2 PRs to Rust standard library (100K+ ⭐)
🧠 Outperformed Google Translate by 6 BLEU points (61 vs 55)
🚀 Presented to VP/EVP stakeholders on memory system design
💼 Looking for Summer 2027 Software Engineering Internships
Especially interested in: Distributed Systems • AI Infrastructure • Backend Engineering