3 YoE engineer. Full stack, leaning frontend.Stack:● Frontend: TypeScript, Next.js, React.js, Tailwind CSS, HeadlessUI, Figma● Backend: Go, Postgres, DynamoDB, Docker, Amazon AWS, OpenSearch (based on ElasticSearch), Connect Protobuf RPC (gRPC HTTP APIs), Krakend API Gateway, Temporal Durable Execution● 3rd party APIs: Stytch (auth), Twisp (financial ledger), Sentry (monitoring), Prodvana (deployment)Achievements:● Head of these product areas: user management, user tasks/assignments, producer profiles, producer onboarding, producer compliance (licenses, appointments, RIRS, etc.).● Built many foundational frontend components and design patterns.About Chestnut, as of June 2024:● Seed-stage insurtech with ≈10 employees. Founded by the former CSO of Ethos Life, as well as a former director of engineering of the same company.● Seed funded by a16z, Founders Fund.● B2B web app data platform for insurance companies to manage producers/policies.

At Yale, when it comes to the senior and alumni classes, the Class President is also called the Class Secretary. I serve until May 2026.● Organize alumni events for 1600 people; led Class Council to plan senior year events and commencement.● Guided alumni initiatives as an ex-officio member of the Yale Alumni Association Board of Governors.

8th engineer. Full stack, leaning frontend.Stack:● Frontend: JavaScript, Vue.js, Quasar.js, Figma● Backend: JavaScript, Node.js, Express.js, Postgres, Redis, BullMQ, Amazon AWS● 3rd party APIs: Marqeta (cards), Dwolla (ACH), Sendgrid (emails), Sentry (monitoring)Achievements:● Owned APIs and web app features E2E for user signup / KYB and invoices: worked with Product and Sales to identify needs, wrote spec’d tickets, developed, tested, and provided on-call support (Node.js, Vue.js, Postgres).● Cut user churn by 20% by improving validations and logic in user signup / KYB for faster error correction.● Grew user engagement by 10% with features for invoice OCR, draft vendor payments, and custom card creation.● Avoided losing 15% of clients ($XXk revenue) by promptly inspecting and rectifying their card declines and ACH returns, liaising constantly with Marqeta & Dwolla support to solve problems, including surfacing a bug in Marqeta’s card creation API.● Wrote ACID-based code (e.g. locks) enabling concurrent vendor payments and vendor payment status notification emails.About Nitra, as of March 2023:● Seed-stage fintech with ≈25 employees. Founded by the former co-founder/CTO of FiscalNote ($NOTE).● Seed funded by a16z, NEA, SoftBank.● B2B web app like a Ramp + Amazon for doctors and medical supplies.

3rd engineer. Mobile app development.Stack:● Mobile: Dart, Flutter● Backend: Google Cloud, Spanner (database), Firebase (auth, emails)● 3rd party APIs: Branch (deeplinks)Achievements:● Shipped 50 features and 10 pixel-perfect UI screens for the iOS and Android consumer app, including those for money transfers, KYC, legal agreements, user password, alerts, and validations (Flutter, Figma).● Led development of automation and integration infrastructure for Marketing, Legal, and CX, such as automating referrals & social growth hacking schemes that increased beta product waitlist size by 200% to 1 million (Python).● Shipped high-priority features fast while aligning on user needs x-functionally and balancing tech & biz tradeoffs.● Edited pitch deck and wrote PRD / GTM / journeys docs for initial product, as part of seed fundraise materials.About Seashell, as of August 2022:● Seed-stage B2C fintech with ≈25 employees. Founded by the former COO of CertiK.● Seed funded by Mark Cuban, Vlad Tenev, Khosla, Coinbase.● B2C DeFi vault with a checking account-like mobile app UI.

One of ≈5 undergrads selected to attend talks about the intersection of law and emerging technologies, particularly AI and blockchain.

One of 43 Google APM interns worldwide, selected from 10,000+ applicants.https://careers.google.com/programs/apm/● Coordinated with designers, engineers, and PMs to build Chat navigation features to help users catch up on unread chats.● Wrote product requirements documents, conducted competitive analysis, and researched and prioritized user needs.● Met with 30+ PMs across Google, to understand and apply Google’s goals and product strategies.

One of 76 students and professionals selected for this incubator, from 1,500 applicants.● Awarded $2,500 to build and launch a news analytics service, as well as a newsletter that uncovers news stories that aren't receiving enough public attention.● Lead my team's product and business strategies.● Mentored individually by serial entrepreneurs, with the potential for venture capital funding.https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/03/30/were-fixing-the-internet-join-us/

Data Science team, specializing in payments and fraud mitigation. Data and backend.As a sophomore, I was the youngest ever intern in the Data Science team.Stack:● Data & backend: Python, Scikit-learn, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, Google Apps Script● 3rd party APIs: Stripe Radar (fraud detection)Achievements:● Queried and analyzed payments data to build in-house machine learning models to replace Stripe Radar in mitigating payment failure and fraud, increasing company revenue by up to 3%.● Automated the manual process of writing credit card charge dispute response letters, saving 500 man-hours / week.● Modeled scooter acceleration data to enhance safety by detecting when users ride over potholes.About Lime, as of August 2019:● Series-D B2C micromobility unicorn. Ranked in LinkedIn Top Startups 2019.● Funding rounds backed by a16z, Coatue, Uber, and others.● Scooter/bike-share app and logistics, with 10M registered users and 30M trips since 2017.● As of June 2024, Lime is now profitable and holds a near-monopoly on the scooter-share market.

Achievements:● Presented a prototype for a blockchain-monitoring platform, which allows banks and exchanges to detect illicit activities like money laundering, unmask bad actors, and ensure compliance with KYC/KYT regulations. This prototype became a proof-of-concept for CertiK’s later Skynet product.● Developed a web scraper (with Python's BeautifulSoup and Pandas) to download and reorganize Bitcoin transaction data from an online blockchain explorer for statistical analysis and visualization.● Reviewed CertiK's business model and performed competitive analysis.About CertiK, as of March 2019:● Seed-stage B2B fintech with ≈15 employees. Founded by Yale and Columbia professors in the field of formal verification.● Seed round backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Binance Labs.● Blockchain cybersecurity: Using formal verification to prove the security of smart contracts. The primary differentiating product is the DeepSEA programming language to mathematically prove the absence of unhandled edge cases.● As of June 2024, CertiK is now a series-B startup valued at $2B.

NEO Global Development is the developer of the NEO blockchain, the first major Chinese blockchain and (at the time) the 20th most popular blockchain globally.● Developed SDK features to vote on consensus (bookkeeper) nodes using C#, then presented to Director of R&D.● Bootstrapped a private blockchain network; developed, deployed, and executed NEP-5 smart contracts.● Learned the technicals of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and NEO from official company presentations by senior developers.● Evaluated and compared blockchain regulations in US and China and their effects on fintech startup growth.

Acies Technology, LLC (雸昇资产管理有限公司): asset management startup that uses quantitative trading to invest in global stocks and futures, ¥1 billion AUM (USD$150 million). Currently in stealth mode.● Developed, backtested, and presented moving average-based strategies to arbitrage coal futures using Pandas.● Trained and compared Scikit-learn regression models and Keras deep learning models to forecast price actions.● Computed and analyzed stock volumes and volatilities; correlated price actions with major stock market indices.● Coached in technical analysis; attended company meetings to hear analyst presentations on futures markets.I gathered minute-resolution stock market data from multiple sources through APIs, consolidated the data into spreadsheets, analyzed the data, developed trading strategies, and tested those strategies with historical data (backtesting). In this way, I worked through the full life cycle of data analysis, from data gathering to cleaning to analysis to implementation.

This position is actually ongoing as of 2022 – I listed an end date just to customize how LinkedIn sorts experiences chronologically.Website: SiliconValleyYouth.comFounded by Bryan Owens and Benjamin Owens (linkedin.com/in/ben-owens/).● Nonprofit where high schoolers learn leadership skills while teaching middle schoolers advanced subjects.● Recruited and trained 94 teachers for 130 classes and 1500 students; raised $150k from tuition, donating all profits.● Founded art, music, writing, and other programs in the low-income San Jose and Ravenswood City School Districts.