Led API and frontend web development for ‘Ed,’ defining the technical roadmap and collaborating closely with the Product Manager, CTO, and DevOps Engineer to ensure scalability and meet platform requirements.Conducted a comprehensive security audit of the backend codebase, securing all APIs by validating access tokens and implementing strict claim-based access checks, resulting in successful clearance of third-party penetration testing.Evaluated and selected text-to-speech engines from various providers, assessing performance trade-offs across multiple languages to optimize integration with the chat widget.

Developed ‘Ed,’ an AI-powered learning acceleration platform adopted by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to support over 550,000 students, recognized in the 2024 EdTech Breakthrough Awards for ‘Best Use of Artificial Intelligence’.Managed the end-to-end implementation of LTI 1.3 integration with an offshore consulting agency, overseeing PR reviews, UAT sign-offs, and coordinating cross-time-zone syncs to enable seamless SSO and secure access to third-party vendor activities within the LAUSD learning platform. Integrated deep linking for direct access to activities tailored to help students improve in targeted subjects.Developed a customizable chat widget in vanilla JavaScript with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS, implementing APIs for iframe communication with parent applications (web or native mobile iOS/Android) and enabling real-time messaging via socket server interactions.Enhanced user experience with persona-based lazy loading and optimized load times by fixing React lifecycle hook dependencies that caused redundant network calls, significantly reducing AWS serverless and RDS costs.

Led the development of Harbor.ai’s flagship insurance submission intake platform (after the CTO's abrupt departure), generating quotes for various policies, allowing users to select and bind coverage.Improved user experience and conversion rates by dynamically displaying only relevant questions and hiding unnecessary ones, using a custom observer pattern with pub/sub features to streamline data entry.Built an authentication microservice using a two-legged OAuth 2.0 flow with OpenID Connect elements to support multi-session capabilities, secure refresh token exchanges, and detailed audit trails, serving both the intake platform and dashboard.Designed and implemented a Gitflow-based CI/CD pipeline in GitLab, creating production, staging, and integration branches to streamline deployments. Wrote custom CI/CD scripts to automate deployment steps, including clearing CloudFront cache and removing outdated items in the S3 bucket, ensuring efficient and reliable updates.Instituted a culture of engineering excellence by implementing code quality standards with ESLint, Prettier, TypeScript type-checking, and Git pre-commit hooks, fostering collaboration and maintaining high code integrity.

Joined the team as a contractor to modernize the frontend user experience, aligning with client requirements and successfully meeting the startup’s July delivery deadline.

Freelanced as a frontend engineer, developing and iterating on a responsive landing page based on client requests. Collaborated closely with a designer and team members to ensure each update aligned with the design vision and adapted to evolving requirements.

Developed high-fidelity Svelte.js demo applications under tight deadlines to showcase the Voice Compass product’s potential for addressing client pain points, including lost baggage, password resets, and customer literacy. Created successful demos for Delta Airlines, JetBlue, AeroMexico, Unilever, and Ben & Jerry’s, supporting strategic sales efforts.Engineered the Auth0-hosted React TypeScript application for the Conversations by NLX platform, ensuring a consistent brand and user experience across signup, login, and password reset flows.Integrated Voice Compass into a React Shopify plugin as an MVP, enabling human-like voice guidance for password reset flows and exploring Shopify plugins as a potential revenue stream.

Developed and architected a Node.js-based command-line tool to enforce SOC 2 compliance by ensuring all data in AWS S3 buckets is encrypted at rest. Addressed challenges including AWS read/write concurrency limits, S3’s eventual consistency, and managing Node.js heap memory and child processes.Built a UI component library with React Storybook, supporting a micro-frontend architecture to increase development agility and align with company reorganization goals.Incorporated user analytics with Amplitude, Mixpanel, and Hotjar session recording to track user interactions and provide actionable insights for the product manager.Optimized search relevance in an Elasticsearch-based engine for insurance products by implementing field-level boosting and hierarchical query prioritization, ensuring that results displayed account names first, followed by product names, to meet business requirements.

Boosted visual consistency and testing efficiency by implementing BackstopJS for CSS testing, automating visual snapshots across breakpoints and increasing test coverage with headless browsers and image analysis.Improved data accessibility for non-technical team members by migrating from MongoDB/Mongoose to MySQL/Sequelize, enabling broader use of data and facilitating SQL-based reporting.

Teaching Assistant for General Assembly’s Front-End Web Development (FEWD) class, a 10-week, 60-hour weekend program introducing students to foundational frontend web development concepts.