About Me

I'm Will Palaia, a third-year student at UMass Amherst studying Computer Science and Economics.

I'm a Software Engineer Intern (SWE) at Wellington Management, an asset management company based in Boston.

Previously, I was a Software Engineer Intern (SWE) at ISO New England and a Software Developer Intern (SDE) at BigBear.ai.

I am currently interested in reinforcement learning and the applications it has in my current life. Right now I am looking into portfolio rebalancing using deep Q-learning.

In my free time, I enjoy stock trading, poker, soccer, golf, tennis, and drumming.

Software Engineer Intern
Imago Rehab

Studying at
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Quantitative Software Engineer
Minutemen Intl. Equity Fund

Interests
Trading · Poker · Tennis · Drums

Education

University of Massachusetts Amherst

BS · Computer Science
BA · Economics

Expected 2026

Experience

Imago Rehab

Software Engineer Intern

· Created web app through Android Studio, Nodejs, and ExpressJS, connected to a MongoDB database.

· Integrated AI-powered chatbot into app through OpenAI API to enhance customer support, offering automated responses to user generated queries.

Sep 2024 - Dec 2024

ISO New England

Software/Data Verification Engineer Intern

· Implemented a process to verify transformer energy levels across New England as well as dynamically adjust their representation in the power grid model, enhancing daily energy forecast accuracy by >5%.

· Developed Python script to filter and format >37,000 rows of Excel data, reducing processing time by ~30 hours.

· Programmed internal tool to analyze discrepancies in load data files, build without any built-in libraries.

June 2024 - Aug 2024

BigBear.AI

Software Developer Intern

· Built top-to-bottom Jira cloud-based web application over three two-week sprints using agile technologies.

· Implemented hierarchical UI and progress features to increase efficiency and scalability on the user-side.

· Designed and integrated unit and CI/CD pipeline tests - increased total app test coverage by >25%.

· Deployed on AWS ECS and released to the Atlassian Marketplace, contributed to 100% of total profits.

June 2022 - Aug 2022

US Soccer

Soccer Referee

Sep 2017 - Aug 2022

Skills

Languages

Python

Java

JavaScript

TypeScript

SQL

HTML/CSS

Technologies

Node.js

React

Git

AWS (EC2)

Jira

Linux

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

VBA