Customer-focused Technical Support professional (Tier 1/2) with strong de-escalation and clear communication skills, and a track record of faster first response, fewer escalations, and tighter SLAs. Comfortable handling high-throughput ticket queues, documenting fixes into KBs, and translating technical issues into plain language for non-technical users.
title="Technical Support Engineer Intern (Tier 1/2)"
languages="Ticketing/Triage, Knowledge Base Writing, De-escalation"
date="May 2023 — Aug 2024" %}}
- Delivered **Tier 1/2 frontline support** for CI/CD & Kubernetes in a ticket queue; improved **first-response time by 40%** through better triage/routing.
- Performed **incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis**; automated data capture/validation that resolved **80% of config errors** and **reduced downtime by 40%**.
- Wrote **step-by-step knowledge-base articles** and troubleshooting flows that enabled Tier 1 to solve common probe issues, **cutting escalations by 30%**.
- Built a deployment **runbook** that standardized fixes and **reduced repeat contacts/tickets by 66%**; **shortened resolution from 45 → 15 minutes**.
- Kept users informed with **concise status updates**, set expectations, and **de-escalated frustrated stakeholders** by focusing on next steps and time to resolution.
- Documented fixes into **KBs/runbooks** for reuse.
- **Deployed and maintained multiple web applications**
using **Docker Compose** on **AWS EC2 Debian/Linux servers**,
ensuring consistent environments for applications handling
**over 2,000+ monthly requests**.
- **Built a uptime monitoring system** by writing a
JavaScript script and setting up a systemd
service/timer to check and display page uptime,
**ensuring near real-time monitoring and reducing downtime
time by 95%**.
- **Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning** by writing
**Terraform** files to deploy AWS EC2 instances and Docker
containers, **accelerating deployment times by 80%** and
providing an easily reproducible infrastructure setup.
- **Improved web application accessibility** by
configuring **AWS Route 53**’s DNS and **NGINX** to route
subdomains to individual web apps, **enabling seamless
navigation between apps**.
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{{% resume/project name="Rarity Surf"
languages="User Support, Bug Reproduction"
date="Mar 2025" show="true" %}}
- Provided **real-time user support** for a live analytics app (triage → reprogram → fix → follow-up) across UI filtering and API errors.
- **Translated user requests into fixes/features**, improving usability for non-technical traders; **reduced perceived latency by 50%** under load with targeted optimizations.
- **Provided direct user support** for a live NFT analytics
platform, resolving front-end filtering bugs and API
integration issues in real-time.
- **Developed a full-stack web application with PostgreSQL database** to analyze NFT rarity rankings, increasing market research efficiency by 80%.
- **Translated user requests into technical features**, implementing real-time PostgreSQL-powered filters that improved usability for non-technical traders.
- **Debugged and optimized API performance** under
load, reducing latency by 50% and enabling **3,000+
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