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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.
• 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.
• 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.