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In November of 2023 I launched Kojo Design, a design engineering subscription that allows founders and startups to gain access to unlimited cross-functional design, plus on-demand component development and landing pages. Currently operating at $10k MRR.

Boston, Ma, Us

In late 2022, I co-founded Linguistic along with a partner I met through the On Deck Founders fellowship. In January of 2023, I left my job to pursue the company full-time.While Linguistic began as an end-to-end immersion platform for language learners, it eventually evolved into an AI-powered up-skilling platform for ESL professionals. With that evolution came a great deal of growth and iteration as an engineer, a designer, and a leader.As both the CTO & the company's design leader, I designed and built the core foundation of our platform using SvelteKit, NestJS, Python, and a slew of other technologies. I created the company's design system from scratch, hired our first two engineers, and actively worked alongside our CPO to craft and refine the user experience of the platform using Figma.I also led the re-design of our company's marketing pages as well as several core product features such as Language Genie, Learn Popups, and Learning Pathways.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

While at Baseten, I worked alongside a team of other full-stack and frontend engineers to shape the core experience of the company's flagship platform.Working closely with design, I helped lead several new product initiatives such as a refreshed user onboarding experience, new model management UX, and a brand-new models hub for deploying pre-trained models on your account.I overhauled the architecture of the product's client-side networking layer, as well as craft product mockups in Figma for a new logging experience.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

At Coursera, I led the development of several learner-facing initiatives, including:Learner goal settingSyncing deadlines with your calendarReal-time in-app messaging to motivate learnersFurthermore, I helped to revamp the product's infrastructure, carrying the migration of several legacy frontend components from BackboneJS to React 15.

Mountain View, California, Us

My primary role at Udacity involved maintaining the company's marketing website, as well as crafting a number of landing pages for different promotional initiatives.In 2018, I spearheaded the development of the company's homepage and catalog refresh, as well as invented internal tooling to facilitate the easy creation of new landing pages.During this time, I learned several new technologies on the job, including Angular 6 and RxJS.

Stamford, Ct, Us

During my short time at KAYAK, I redesigned and re-implemented the cross-sell advertisements on booking receipts from the ground up using a custom, self-made framework. Coined XSell, the new code was written using a mix of Java, LESS, jQuery, and HTML and came complete with automatic server logging and client-side asynchronous analytics.Built on top of Spring and Velocity.

Lanham, Maryland, Us

At edX, I added the first JavaScript unit testing framework to the e-commerce site, and was the first to begin work on the Course Admin Tool (CAT).The CAT is an internal tool for course administrators to easily add and modify course seats without needing to mess with any low-end configurations. The tool uses a clean UI to simplify the process of course management, and allows users to add verified course options, professional education courses, and more with ease.In addition, the tool was one of the first projects to fully implement the edX Pattern Library, which was just starting to gain traction during my time there.

My very first professional job was working alongside two founders out of their garage in Worcester, MA. There I assisted with development, re-designed their homepage and created advertisements to land deals.I began by writing stored procedures for the SQL Server backend and adding new platform features using ASP .NET and VBScript. However, after designing a few advertisements for my boss, not only were they the new highlights of his pitch presentations, but I was promoted to redesigning the entire site homepage using just CSS and HTML.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

High School Diploma