I google'd "how to become a hacker" at 12 years old and so started a life's long journey in software. I was a VC backed startup founder and CTO. I raised ~$1mill in funding, worked with k-pop stars, comedians, YouTubers, and built a user base north of 60k MAUs.

2025 — NowVercelSenior Software Engineer, GTM

2025 — Now

2024 — 2025VercelSenior Sales Engineer

2024 — 2025

2021 — 2024Canoga DigitalFounder

2021 — 2024

Los Angeles, California, United States

Software development professional services for startups and SMBs: Pulse Athletix, Lunch Payments, Catino, Workona

Building and launching in-house software products: ArabicBridge, AskDeen

Tech stack: OpenAI, TypeScript, NestJS, React Native, Airtable API, PostgreSQL, Redis, tRPC

2020 — 2023LegaciCTO, Cofounder

2020 — 2023

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Built membership-based web app scaling from 0 to 60k+ MAUs and raised $1mill in VC funding.

Developed multi-party payments system with multi-platform redundancies

Developed a custom NFT smart contract with user-friendly wallet onboarding minting 12k+ NFTs

Developed custom rewards ledger system to award points to fans and track expenditures

Tech stack: TypeScript, NextJS, React+Redux, PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL, Heroku, AWS, Vercel

2021 — 2022FASHIONPHILESenior Software Engineer

2021 — 2022

Los Angeles, California, United States

Led a refactor from Laravel PHP monolith to a micro-frontend React architecture supporting $8-12mill revenue in payments per day.

Education

2014 — 2018

UC San Diego

Bachelor’s Degree

2014 — 2018

Experience+

Education

Bachelor’s Degree