Experience
2024 — Now
2019 — 2022
Los Angeles, California
• Led the React & MobX frontend architecture for BUENA’s web products, ensuring scalability and robustness, achieving an 80% drop in bugs. Optimized build processes and rendering to boost page load times and responsiveness by 60%.
• Collaborated with a diverse team to autonomously deliver key features, like dynamic shopping lists, ‘link in bio’ profiles and text marketing tools. Contributed to full-stack development from API and database schema design to seamless integration with the Python & Django backend on Google Cloud, helping content creators increase their audience outreach and engagement by 18%.
• Lead engineer responsible for building, maintaining and deploying a Chrome Extension from the ground up using Python, JavaScript, HTML & CSS. The extension enabled content creators to save over 15k products and places from blogs, articles, and online stores.
• Drove product strategy and designed pixel perfect UI/UX in Figma, balancing customer needs with lean/agile practices to reduce development costs by 30% while ensuring a user-centered and detail oriented design approach.
• Streamlined frontend deployment using Docker and CircleCI for a robust CI/CD pipeline, improving development efficiency. Integrated tools, like Sentry, Heap and Google Analytics, to enhance insights and platform stability.
• Developed BUENA’s iOS application, which was previously published on the App Store, using Swift & UIKit.
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
Greater Los Angeles Area
Closr was a hyperlocal social platform that enabled users to find connections instantly at events.
• Awarded $20,000 in cash and benefits as part of the StartupUCLA Summer Accelerator 2018 Cohort.
• Conducted market research and competitive analysis to identify a gap in the online dating market.
• Validated hypothesis by surveying prospective users and created a roadmap for a minimum viable product.
• Led the design and development of an iOS application that utilized an indoor navigation algorithm to successfully direct a user close to their match by combining data from GPS, iBeacon that uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), accelerometer, and gyroscope built into the iPhone.
• Organized test events with beta users to gather data and deduce limitations of the navigation algorithm.
• Integrated data from a magnetic localization API to improve navigation algorithm accuracy by 70%.
2017 — 2018
2017 — 2018
Greater Los Angeles Area
Sling enabled seamless sharing of virtual business cards via iBeacons (BLE) with users in close proximity.
• Won the Blackstone Launchpad StartupUCLA Proof of Concept competition in December 2017.
• One of ten startups selected for the StartupUCLA Summer Accelerator 2018 Cohort.
• Selected for the Bruin Entrepreneurs Startup Labs Fellowship that provides mentorship in Winter 2018.
• Collaborated on design and development of an iOS application that was briefly published on the App Store.
• Devised an algorithm to identify the closest beacon activated device to allow instant exchange of information.
• Created complex views and UI components to minimize dependencies and provide an optimal user experience.
2017 — 2018
2017 — 2018
Greater Los Angeles Area
• Worked with 11 other developers as part of the Web Team, which is responsible for development and maintenance of the official UCLA Radio website and mobile applications
• Performed extensive debugging and testing on uclaradio.com's React codebase to fix bugs
• Contributed to the migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL and the development of a redesigned API
• Added features to the member's login panel using React and the iOS application using Swift and Auto Layout
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Science - MS
UCLA
Bachelor of Science - BS
The Doon School