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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

I work across the product and across the stack, using words, code, and LLMs to bring quality one-on-one learning experiences to people of all ages and backgrounds.

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

As a Poe/Faulkner Fellow in Fiction, I taught undergraduate courses in UVA's English department to help students discover what, how, and why they write.- Public speaking, workshops, and group facilitation.- Pedagogy and Mentorship.- Syllabus design and course planning.

Charlottesville, Va & Exeter, Nh

- Many side hustles from Farmers Markets and Coffee Shops to Museum workshops, Digital Humanities- Tech services: React/Next apps, Personal sites, Typescript, API integrations, and GraphQL servers.- Hobby projects involving NLP + LLMS: Tao Translations, BookTalk Chat, sentiment analysis (IsItFunny?) experiments in generative fiction, digital books, and education.

Greater New York City Area

1stDibs is a marketplace for one-of-a-kind items with 5M+ monthly visitors. As a JavaScript developer on the Core Engagement and International teams, I wrote key integrations to launch the Internationalized eCommerce site.- Shipped responsive Mobile Web UX across Search / Browse / Product Detail Pages using React, Scss, and React Storybook.- Shipped 'Discover Page' by taking a Company Hack-a-thon prototype to production to launch 1stDibs' first personalized recommendation engine using React, Relay, and GraphQL on Node.- Built automated translations system for launch of International websites in: Germany, France, & UK using React-Intl, Node scripts, Smartling API, Github API, and Jenkins build server.- Organized onsite Student Hack-a-thon with students from three NYC Public High Schools, internal stakeholders, and a team of volunteer teachers from CodeNation- Re-built login modals and sign-up flows across site to support new user account types for increased engagement and decreased time to first sale.- Built location-based recommendations and filters to connect buyers and sellers from closer locales- Re-wrote internal tooling for A/B tests and SEO optimizations, improving Product-Developer time to launch across teams.- Technologies: React, Node, GraphQL, SEO+AMP, A/B Testing, i18n, GitHub Integrations, Mobile Web, Server-Side Rendering.

San Francisco Bay Area

Remind helps students, teachers, and parents safely communicate in K-12 schools. As a Product Engineer on the Core Engagement team, I worked across the stack to ship features support a user base of 20M+ monthly users.- React, GraphQL, Node, Ruby on Rails, Go, AWS, Docker, and CircleCI.- Full-stack implementation of reaction emojis for Message Reactions, File Uploading, and Message Composition.- Participated in monthly 48 hour on-call rotation to monitor backend infrastructure and front end services- Contributed to team-wide adoption of modern javascript frameworks: Apollo GraphQL, Redux, and React- Re-wrote Twilio integration for modern JavaScript and Node (no more callbacks!)- Successfully ran a multi-week migration from Rails-based PostgreSQL to Go service built on DynamoDB with zero downtime.- Shipped profile photo uploads, cropping, and storage using React, Apollo GraphQL, and AWS S3.

New York

Foursquare is a location-based social network with 50M+ monthly users with a recommendations platform leveraging the power of geolocation. As a data engineering intern, I learned a ton from a team of Data Scientists. I supported the in-house Machine Learning pipeline using Scalding and Luigi MapReduce frameworks, improving Scala server performance, and created internal tools for the product team.Implemented 'Recently Viewed Venues' feature for LambdaMART learning-to-rank model.- Improved product-engineering communication by creating internal dashboard for testing location models.- Re-wrote notifications pipeline in Scala to fetch data in concurrent stages.- Decreased machine utilization by batching service calls for similar notifications.

Philadelphia, Pa

I was a teaching assistant for several undergraduate courses, including: Functional Programming, Data Structures, and Theory of Computation.- Java, OCaml, LaTeX, and Javascript.- Led weekly presentations and assignments for groups 20-students.- Provided one-on-one mentorship on homework and exam preparation.- Assisted professors in various tasks such as improving course documentation, assignment updates, and grading exams.

Philadelphia

Worked with lead professor on data and text-based analysis of international conflicts involving non-state entities from the 1970s to present day.

Philadelphia

Event photography for the Office of University Life

Shanghai, China

Cross-functional intern working with members of IT and Marketing teams for a financial consulting firm.- Objective-C, Core Data, Swift, and SQLite.- Built iOS app (凯盛汇/KaiShengHui) for consultants to read and share in-house industry news, find new projects, find and RSVP to events, and view profile and existing project updates.- Collaborated with all-Chinese Marketing and Design teams to define application requirements.- Designed and implemented networking client backed by Core Data to persist JSON responses to local SQLite.

Berwyn, Pennsylvania

Sustrana provides consultations for Environmental Sustainability and Management, helping businesses navigate the tax and legal benefits of protecting their local environment. As an intern, I wrote 10,000+ words of educational content and modules, and helped the founders with their go-to-market strategy to expand from individual consultations to a web-based MVP.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, East Asian Studies

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Creative Writing (Fiction)