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• Founding front-end developer for a new type of blockchain-based fintech platform. It allows accredited investors, general partners, and fund administrators to buy and sell shares in alternative asset classes online. • Modeled and built production-grade webapp for first client deployment. It uses React, Next.js, TypeScript, React Query, Auth0, Redux, and Styled Components to digitize the workflow of multi-stage asset-class transactions. It also ensures trust between counter parties by recording each stage to a blockchain-based public ledger.• Leveraged journalism experience at major outlets to develop a direct messaging program for our platform. Our clients can now pitch new opportunities to investors as they complete each stage of a transaction.

• Recruited by seasoned startup founder to edit his Substack newsletter on the politics of digital (mis)information.

• Recruited by founder to build a new chat-based media product for Facebook Messenger.• Helped model and code front- and back-ends (Node.js, TypeScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, EJS).• Collaborated on strategy, including business models, product, and content strategies.

• Created a skill that connected friendly strangers in real life by blending machine learning with Alexa.• Recruited a machine-learning PhD from Oxford University to develop the experimental Alexa Skill.• Earliest-stage company selected by Amazon/Techstars to interview for Alexa Accelerator II.

New York, N.Y., Us

• Arrow, our self-serve publishing platform, personalized video at scale. Developers, marketers, and creators used it to tailor their video’s interactive features and content based on current events, editorial and user context.• Slingshot, our real-time event platform, brought live stage shows online. Directors used our interactive software stage to combine media, e.g., YouTube, with props, e.g., florescent call outs, for up to 100 concurrent guests.

Jersey City, Nj, Us

New York, Us

New York, Us

Newark, New Jersey, Us

Trenton, Nj, Us

Ba, Government & Law

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