Contributed to tRPC + MongoDB backend routes and services, strengthening core infrastructure and enabling new user workflows

Wrote a Rust-based load balancer and contributed to a chain indexer to improve reliability and performance of validator and client node operations

Managed Google Cloud infrastructure for validator/client nodes, ensuring 99+% uptime and scalability of distributed systems

Deployed full observability pipeline with Prometheus + Grafana, integrated with Slack/on-call tooling for real-time alerts and metrics

Rearchitected recommendation algorithms to precompute data improving cache hit rate and resulting in double digit improvements in performance latency for slowest 95th percentile performing recommendations

Designed, developed, and tested new recommendation algorithms and RESTful apis spanning both the front-end (React) and back-end (Python, MySQL) to personalize ecommerce experiences for top tier clients reaching millions of e-commerce customers

Led all sprint rituals including standups, refinements, and retrospectives collaborating with engineering, product, and design

Collaborated cross-functionally with engineering, product, support, and customer success to help close and provide support for multi-million dollar deals and helped onboard and mentor new engineers

Successfully negotiated 2 letters of intents with two of the largest streaming providers in billiards and chess totaling $8,000+ in value

Completed 30+ interviews with potential users and customers and incorporated feedback into product development

Successfully raised initial capital from a Chicago venture capital fund

Built, designed, and developed profitable ecommerce store using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript achieving ~ 30% gross margins

Negotiated, developed, and managed 3 partnership deals with suppliers to fulfill product orders and meet customers’ needs at all times of the day, 7 days a week

Created successful direct to consumer marketing campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, and Google ad platforms achieving conversion rates as high as 10%

Conducted and shared bottom-up research on several publicly traded companies by carefully reading through SEC filings and reaching out to investor relations and management for further inquiries and information

Discussed valuations and company strategy in buy-side IPO roadshow meeting featuring company management and over 50 money managers