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San Francisco, California, Us

Rippling is a workforce management system that eliminates the friction from running a business, combining HR, IT, and Finance apps on a unified data platform.

Manyfest is a social journaling app for recording and celebrating life events with close friends. Independently created and launched Manyfest from the ground up. Wore multiple hats spanning true full-stack engineering, UI/UX design, product strategy, and growth marketing.• Designed and implemented fully-featured iOS app written in SwiftUI and backwards-compatible, scalable API written in Express.js and TypeScript, integrating Apple, AWS, and Twilio services.• Bootstrapped growth to 100s of users with 1000s of journal entries.• Prototyped and iterated on user feedback to build and release several major product revisions.

New York, Us

Sparkwise provides professional development via immersive online trainings. First pre-seed engineer hire, synthesized business and technical constraints for founders and other stakeholders.• Architected core business-critical API with Express.js, TypeScript, Prisma, and PostgreSQL for managing 1000s of users and 100Ks of generated objects that previously spanned multiple ad-hoc datastores.• Created reusable foundation for company's web applications by designing and implementing dashboard for managing customer data with React and TypeScript.• Established team-wide development environment, automated CI/CD pipeline, and scalable infrastructure with Docker on GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Actions, and AWS Fargate.

San Francisco, California, Us

Carta helps startups, employees, and investors manage equity. Engineer on the Capitalization and Reporting team, worked with product and business stakeholders to extend core data models and services.• Refactored, maintained, and migrated multiple legacy codebases and systems with APIs and views with millions of downstream users and transactions.• Shaped product roadmap by aligning domain knowledge and technical expertise.

Post-pandemic, during the summer of 2021, I took a solo cross-country trip and relocated to New York City.

Serenade enables developers to code with voice. First engineer hire, focused on product and process.• Planned and implemented desktop app features and extensions for editors and browsers with cross-platform support for macOS, Windows, and Linux with Electron, Webpack, React, TypeScript, and Sass.• Led infrastructure scaling from a single container to fully distributed with Docker Swarm and AWS.• Established process and tooling as team grew to 8, including feature branches, code reviews, and alerts.

San Francisco, California, Us

Asana builds software to “enable the world's teams to work together effortlessly.”• Collaborated closely with product, design, and data science functions to build and iterate features for billing flows, premium tiers, and customer organization admin console with TypeScript and Scala.• Built internal APIs for a new e-commerce flow and a domain data migration system.• Rotated regularly as one of only 12 primary on-call engineers entrusted with the responsibility of the web app's deployment and release lifecycle, triaging and resolving incidents affecting millions of users.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Minerva is an innovative university with real-time seminars and pedagogical tools for faculty and students.• Built and deployed microservices with Docker containers in AWS.• Implemented server-side APIs with Django and Python, and client-side features with Electron, Backbone, Marionette, React, and Sass.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

CS50 is Harvard’s introductory computer science course, with hundreds of undergraduates enrolled annually, as well as offered for free via edX to 1M+ students. I was a part-time undergraduate teaching fellow with significant individual responsibilities.• Built a uniform Linux virtual machine development environment for students and staff.• Developed a Chrome extension for enhanced video playback for lectures.• Wrote canonical lecture notes, taught at office hours, and contributed to course materials.• Designed graphics for web and print, including handouts, posters, and name tags.• Produced educational media including videography and photography.