Full-Stack Software Engineer | Building Scalable User Systems | Ex-Nextdoor | Python, Golang, TypeScript, React
Software engineer with 3+ years building user onboarding, authentication, and verification systems at Nextdoor. I work full-stack shipping features that millions of users interact with daily.
At Nextdoor, I owned critical parts of the user journey: registration flows, login experiences, and identity verification.
Full-stack engineer working on user onboarding, registration, authentication, and verification systems. Collaborated with product, design, and data teams to ship features impacting millions of users.
Key Projects & Accomplishments:
User-Facing Features
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Integrated Google One Tap authentication across login and registration, simplifying the sign-up experience
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Led "Returning Neighbor Journey" initiative, building personalized onboarding flows for users rejoining the platform
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Redesigned verification UI and refactored backend verification logic in Golang, integrating third-party verification APIs
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Conducted login optimization experiments including device fingerprinting and auto-login capabilities
Backend Systems & APIs
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Built backend-driven onboarding system allowing product teams to configure user flows with less code deployments, accelerating experimentation
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Optimized verification system by moving non-critical checks to asynchronous processing, reducing latency and infrastructure costs
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Refactored registration flow to use shared context architecture, improving code maintainability across authentication systems
Compliance & Data
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Implemented age-gating solution with configurable date-of-birth validation and automated account suspension scripts to meet regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions
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Built bulk verification script that retroactively verified thousands of inactive users, established as daily recurring job
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Built automated batch processing jobs extending existing data pipeline infrastructure to handle daily user registration data for verification and email workflows
Cross-Functional Work
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Served as domain expert for verification microservice, coordinating with multiple teams on integrations
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Authored technical documentation for onboarding and verification systems
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Participated in on-call rotation, triaging production incidents