🪄Magical is a Series A startup focusing on building a Chrome extension to automate boring tasks in the browser with no technical configuration required by LLMs and smart UX.- Leveraged OpenAI’s GPT-4 model to pioneer business critical AI features, such as AI Assist writer and Magical AI Smart Replies, driving installs and user engagement.- Mentored interns as well as intermediate programmers on best practices, workflow improvements, and debugging.- Planned, estimated and executed on a complete overhaul of the user referral process, integrating against external services and introducing new engineering practices, doubling our outbound conversion rate.- Owned and migrated the feature flagging and experimentation infrastructure from a custom made system to using LaunchDarkly, providing clear documentations for relevant stakeholders as well as easy to leverage scripts.- Debugged production issues in AWS through an on-call system, providing comprehensive historical documentation. - Assisted in the integration of a design system and CSS-in-JS to support a cohesive visual design, supporting a variety of challenging use-cases, such as the use of the Shadow DOM as well as iFrames.

Substantial is a digital design+dev studio, where folks fueled by empathy and the desire to contribute to ethically sound tech products create top tier software through design, strategy, and development. Internal Work- Developed and pitched a software project, doing market research, producing a slide deck and investigating technology choices, such as Unity.- Ran and organized the “Dev Rend-crew” an internal committee dedicated to assisting in developing developer cultural norms and practices as well as scheduling regular tech talks.- Focused on fostering psychological safety within teams and improving team collaboration by pro-actively developing team culture through regular rituals, such as coffee chat, many practices of which are now used on the majority of teams.Client Work🧱 Block Renovation | A Home Renovation Marketplace | https://www.blockrenovation.com/- Partnered with a growing organization to help expand their product offering by providing product thinking expertise and full-stack engineering.- Developed, conceptualized, integrated and shipped an MVP of a new sales flow across a web app, a mobile app and an administrative, sales-focused back-end app.- Learned and implemented newly investigated software integrations, such as Retool, within a week, assisting Block’s sales people to deliver real business value.💬 Microsoft, Yammer | Inter-Organizational Collaboration Tool- Provided daily front-end software capacity by delivering high-quality, 100% unit tested, legible code.- Collaborated with internal and external developers by providing regular code reviews and pair programming sessions in order to drive product excellence. Was the only external vendor to ever get approval authority over their code base.- Improved feature reliability from ~90% to 99% by tackling and resolving challenging, long-standing bugs and performance issues.

- Developed custom, enterprise-grade portfolio management software using modern technologies which services over 600 users and helps manage sensitive, financial data.- Created a flexibile, scalable UI by collaborating and pairing with developers in order to implement industry standard component design patterns.- Contributed to the company’s open source modules and projects using platforms and technologies such as Node.js and NPM.- Daily full-stack development using: React, Redux, React Router, Groovy, Grails, MySQL, Docker, D3, Mocha, Cypress, Node.js, Enzyme, Java