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San Francisco, CA, US

Robotics for solar construction

Mountain View, CA, US

I managed the frontend for the Checks team (stack: Angular TypeScript, RxJS, and Material UI) in addition to owning full stack feature work (Java, Kotlin, Spanner, SQL, C++). Checks helps developers with privacy compliance and AI safety.Contract via ERG, Inc.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Y Combinator (W20) - Series A
• Became the local GraphQL expert and helped TrueNorth adopt and migrate to GraphQL, leveraging Graphene Django and Apollo Client. I wrote the first production endpoints as well as a style guide to standardize GraphQL.
• Led multiple projects that improved TrueNorth's payments system which was used by the operations team to pay drivers each week and manage outstanding debt.
• Created a barebones feature toggle framework so that feature work could be integrated into the main branch and released with a simple flag flip.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Led front-end architecture of next-gen CRM to support Googleʼs ads business. My team also received the product excellence award of the year for being the first major app within the org to launch on their new preferred.
• Influenced a team of 15+ front-end engineers to adopt unidirectional data-flow and reactive programming with async data streams to improve code readability and reusability.
• Set up the CRM's frontend servers and established integrating testing patterns and infrastructure.
• Pushed back on tech debt and helped establish a strong culture of unit testing on my team.
• Coordinated with UX across multiple teams to build an app bar UI component with a11y support for the internal tools org to provide a unified brand experience across >10 apps running on Angular Dart and Angular.

San Francisco, California, US

• Y Combinator (W12) - Series B
• Spearheaded engineering effort for major frontend refactor to convert 100% of the codebase to ReactJS, Redux, and CSS Modules, substantially improving modularity and increasing productivity.
• Led development of microservice architecture using Docker, CloudFormation, and EC2 Container Service to increase scalability, and improve backend infrastructure reproducibility and efficiency.
• Constructed HTTP request module using JavaScript and RxJS with support for automatic retries, polling, and network connectivity pausing which reduced backend server load up to 50%.
• Greatly improved performance of PostGIS query by > 99% (from O(n) to O(log n)) utilizing indexing and R-trees.
• Built ReactJS component for date and time picking with advanced keyboard and internationalization support.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Y Combinator (S16) - Pre-seed
• Built a real-time healthcare marketplace powered by ReactJS, RethinkDB, and custom JavaScript framework with isomorphic reactive architecture, improving code reusability by >25%.
• Implemented billing and payments solution with QuickBooks integration to process 100 shifts every 30 days, spurring a 200% monthly growth rate.
• Used dependency injection throughout JavaScript stack to decouple web application from the environment and provide lazy module loading and speed up test writing by 25%.
• Improved cascading stylesheet modularity by >50% through writing CSS3 in Sass following the BEM format.

• Engineered ridepinwheels.com and usewayfinder.com using Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and AngularJS, with a drag-n-drop polyline node editor in Google Maps and D3 to allow users to draw custom bus routes on a map.
• Launched iOS utility in Swift to empower drivers with turn-by-turn navigation to enable child pickup/drop-off notifications and provide geolocation updates during a trip.
• Facilitated real-time display of map markers as drivers moved through a route with Redis and WebSockets.

San Diego, California, US

• Developed OfficeTools Workspace CRM (acquired by Abacus Next) for 400+ CPAs using C#, VB.NET, WinForms, SQL, and LINQ.
• Owned 100% of reporting related features and created robust billing reports with SQL and Crystal Reports.
• Built a multi-threaded Outlook data sync in C# that synced over 10,000 contacts in less than 2 minutes.
• Designed an algorithm in C# to match repeating groups of appointments with Outlook recurrence patterns.

Associate Of Science - As, Computer Science

Education record

Computer Information Systems