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Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Led the development and design teams to transform Steller’s social application to a well focused travel app, based on user feedback, usability tests, and value tests, resulting in a 3x increase in MAUs. Drove a cultural shift within the company, prioritizing user testing and design validation pre-development, ensuring product features were aligned with user needs and feedback.Leveraged data-driven insights to iterate quickly in an agile work environment, significantly improving team efficiency and accelerating feature delivery. Worked closely with the marketing team to ensure targeting and retargeting efforts were implemented properly, leading to an 8x increase in downloads and a stable retention.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Expanded Steller's business product offering by building out an internal CMS to allow internal teams to manage and scale our distribution of customer content. Facilitated the onboarding and implementation of embedded content solutions for 15+ active clients, ensuring smooth technical integration and ongoing support, contributing to 1.5M+ in sales.Currently laying the groundwork for licensing the curation and management tool, positioning partners to independently manage and distribute Steller content in the future.Collaborated closely with the Bing team to design and implement a customized solution for integrating Steller content into Bing Travel Pages, ensuring seamless deployment and delivering a product tailored to their platform’s needs.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Developed and optimized backend APIs in Java to support mobile and web functionalities, ensuring a scalable and reliable system architecture. Maintained and extended the database, adding new API endpoints and integrating external APIs while ensuring data accuracy through rigorous testing. Tackled the challenges of working with a legacy codebase, adding new functionality without bloating the system or breaking existing features, ensuring stability and consistency across the platform.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Expanded Steller's content offering. Focused on feature development, adding UI and UX components to enhance the user experience within the iOS application.

San Luis Obispo, California Area

Developed the backend and frontend of an iOS application aimed at helping users find and book local events and experiences.Utilized firebase to store application data and provide a fast and sacalable system.

San Luis Obispo, California Area

Developed a tool for database admins to view their workload metrics on other database configurations to ensure optimality. Met weekly with an AWS development team in scrum fashion to gather requirements, demo features and report status on tasks. Collaborated with other students to design and test a strong architecture with various technologies. Developed the connections between our application and EC2, RDS, Cloudwatch APIs, as well as other backend features

San Luis Obispo, California Area

Worked with an agile software development team on a large scale Boeing application. Maintained the code base by debugging and fixing issues. Met with clients to discuss the product and ensure requirements were met.

Helped port an existing iOS application to Android.