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Seattle, Wa, Us

Developing superpowers for high school teachers.

San Francisco Bay Area

Kopa is the marketplace for medium-term housing. Moving to a new place is difficult and lonely. Kopa enables people to browse furnished rentals, find housemates with similar interests and lifestyles, choose beds, and split deposit and rent payments. We believe that exploration and community make people whole. Kopa exists to inspire people to get out of their comfort zones, to form lasting relationships, and to live fuller lives.Accomplishments:- Accepted into Y Combinator (1.5% acceptance rate)- Raised $1m- Helped 1,000 people (and counting) easily find and rent a home- Gathered over 5,000 hosts onto the marketplace- Processed over $5m in rentWe code in:- Jamstack- React/Redux- NextJS- ExpressJS- Postgres

Innovating on our class pages

Increased conversion rate of our 10,000+ articles

San Francisco Bay Area

Converted pre-paywall landing pages to NextJS for a ~10% CVR increase due to improved performance and UI quality.

San Francisco Bay Area

Experiments included:- Lightweight class landing pages to promote performance and action- Bookmark classes pre-paywall to increase conversion

San Francisco Bay Area

Experiments included:- Highlight Guest Pass urgency and scarcity- Promote sharing during high value-add touch-points such as class completion

San Francisco Bay Area

Experiments included:- New refund page to showcase value props and retain members- Renewal discount to prevent cancelation

San Francisco Bay Area

Salesforce acquired Sequence in February, 2017, so just like that I was a part of Salesforce Customer Success Group. I worked with clients to lead development teams, building systems that use different tech stacks.Accomplishments:- Built the frontend of a cutting-edge blockchain student achievements platform for the largest US university- Built an AR mobile app prototype that Marc Benioff presented to one of the largest US pharmacy retailers- Created a prototype website of a new patient system for the largest US dental plan companyStacks and processes:- Agile 2-week sprints, scrum, story-pointing- JIRA- CSS3/SCSS and HTML5- React/Redux and React Native- ExpressJS and Node- Kafka- Restful API integrations- OOP&D including ORMs- SQL database queries- Git

San Francisco, California, United States

I started my full-time career focusing on front-end engineering at Sequence. This position allowed me to take on a variety of responsibilities, while offering the flexibility to work on side projects.Accomplishments:- Helped create a CRM for Chipotle employees to build and manage customers, marketing pages, and more- Built a web app game for Chipotle's marketing team- Built a website for Opus One featuring scroll-based transitions and animationsStack and process:- Agile 2-week sprints, scrum- Variety of technologies including AngularJS, React, and custom-built framework- CSS3/SCSS and HTML5- Restful API integrations- OOP&D including ORMs- SQL database queries- Git

Palo Alto, California, United States

I worked on the Nest Developers portal that helps developers work with the Nest API and submit products to the Works With Nest Store.Accomplishments:- Built the frontend for the Nest Developers portal- Increased testing code-coverage from ~20% to ~80%Stack and process:- Agile development with 2-week sprints, scrum, and postmortems- CSS3/SCSS and HTML5- Ember.js (ES6) frontend framework- Handlebars semantic templating- Restful API integrations- OOP&D- SQL database queries- Git

Redwood City, California

I was in charge of researching, designing, and building two internal applications. Both saved employees hours of their week totaling over $50k in saved expenses for the company. The full process involved requirements analysis for both tools, design, development, and iteration/improvement based on employee feedback.Accomplishments:- Built a database configuration tool that enabled engineers to view all database keys used on Zazzle.com, search for specific ones, and add/edit/delete specific key values.- Built a translation tool that allowed the translation team to view untranslated strings based on a set of filters, export them to Excel, import translated strings, and view translated strings based on a set of filters.- Presented both tools to the entire company at the end of the internship- Won Pi Day (recited 30 digits of Pi from memory)Stack:- CSS3/SCSS and HTML5- AngularJS (ES6)- Angular Material CSS framework- .NET backend framework- Restful API integrations- OOP&D- SQL database queries- Git

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

I was incredibly fortunate to be a part of such a well-run agile development team. I was a software engineer, focused on frontend, for the Pulse team, working on online Fifa Ultimate Team content.Accomplishments:- One of six agile team members building the first accompanying web app to EA's most profitable game (FIFA)- Created the entire frontend from scratch with a teammate- Improved code-coverage (testing) from ~40% to ~95%- Made it into the credits of FIFA 15!Stack and process:- Agile development including 2-week sprints, story-pointing, and scrums- JIRA- CSS3/SCSS and HTML5- AngularJS (ES6) frontend framework- Cucumber and Selenium frontend testing- Symfony2 backend framework- Restful API integrations- OOP&D- SQL database queries- Git

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jumping into the world of project management taught me a lot in a short amount of time, from dealing with the politics to tight deadlines. Having experience in both software development and project management has given me a valuable outlook on running a functional and cohesive company.Accomplishments:- Saved the company $25k/year by coding multiple Pearl scripts and VB Excel macros to automate control room scheduling (the room responsible for powering all of BC and some of Alberta, Washington, Oregon, and California)- Created 10-year strategic roadmap for Grid Operations team- Introduced the company to Prezi 3D presentation software for more effective presentations

Redwood City, California, United States

Diving into the tech capitol of the world was a phenomenal experience, both inside and outside of work. During this internship I truly fell in love with programming and knew that I wanted to pursue frontend engineering. Fun fact: I put VIM keyboard shortcuts poster next to my desk to become a pro VIM-user.Accomplishments: - Increased company revenue 17% by creating an application to organize company products, create social posts/press releases, and view analytics- Learned proper agile development and programming best practices- Learned about the hardware Gumstix sold (customizable motherboards)Stack and process:- Agile development including 2-week sprints- VIM- Vanilla JS with jQuery- Google APIs- Git

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

My classmate and I started a music recommendation system built around Spotify's Discover Weekly concept years before Discover Weekly was released. We were amongst 15 companies accepted into the University of Waterloo's Enterprise Co-op program. We ultimately didn't stick with the project since school and internships stole our attention. Accomplishments:- Learned the fundamentals of programming (with help from my co-founder's father who worked at Microsoft)- Learned the fundamentals of the web, including HTTP, client/server, HTML/CSS, etc.- Applied software engineering course knowledge to a real-world application- Released an Alpha version of the web appStack:- Vanilla Javascript frontend- .NET backend- Postgres database

Winter

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Management Engineering

Activities and Societies: Varsity Soccer, Enterprise Co-op, Hack the North, Engineering competitionAfter 5 amazing years at the University.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Varsity Soccer, Cross Country