Experience
2025 — Now
San Diego, California, United States
● Owned multiple 0→1 builds from product scoping through deployment, collaborating directly with founders and clients.
● Designed and developed an AI-driven EdTech reading platform that delivers adaptive, choose-your-own-adventure stories to improve reading comprehension; leveraging GPT-based APIs (OpenAI API, Google Mistral) with a NestJS + PostgreSQL, with a React TypeScript frontend.
● Built and deployed a React Typescript and NestJs site for an online radio station with a custom CMS for administrators, integrating the SoundCloud API enabling DJs to upload and manage shows directly through the station’s account, complete with status tracking.
2022 — 2025
● Developed interactive Performance Marketing flows, including Personal Loan Tables and Quizzes in Vue, TypeScript, and XML, enhancing user engagement across high-traffic brands like Investopedia, Byrdie, and Health.com, worked closely with users, designers, and stakeholders.
● Increased personal loan revenue by 50% by working closing with designers to architect UX optimizations for high-revenue and high-traffic pages, such as Investopedia’s “Best Personal Loans”
● Saved the company nearly $1M annually by engineering an in-house Google Ad Manager ad table, replacing third-party solutions.
● Optimized and maintained legacy codebases from pre-merger Meredith Corporation, working with Java, Python, and Ruby on Rails to ensure stability and scalability.
● Developed a browser extension leveraging LLMs, bridging the gap between engineering and QA by summarizing git PR changes into natural language, built with Vue, Python, and Node.js.
2021 — 2022
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
● Cut status update latency from ~10s to <1s and reduced HTTPS polling traffic by ~90% through implementing a websocket based real-time event streaming layer for cluster life cycle, delivering live status, step-level progress, and log tailing to the UI
● Developed and maintained a high-performance SaaS platform using TypeScript, Python, React, NestJS (Node.js), and PostgreSQL, ensuring a seamless user experience for data engineers and scientists.
● Led the UX initiative, identifying usability bottlenecks and engineering solutions that improved navigation, reduced friction, and increased user engagement.
● Reduced user onboarding time by 50% through developing a JupyterLab extension in Python and TypeScript, seamlessly integrating Bodo’s compiler software with Jupyter interfaces.
● Reduced load times by 30% and improved responsiveness through optimizing frontend performance by implementing efficient state management, lazy loading, caching, and API request batching.
● Architected and maintained APIs in NestJS, implementing authentication, role-based access control, and database interactions with PostgreSQL.
San Diego, California, United States
● Automated marketing workflows and campaign analytics through extending client CRM functionality with AWS Lambda serverless functions and API integrations.
● Improved SEO visibility by over 200% on average through technical optimization, structured data implementation, and improved page architecture.
● Reduced load times by 40% and elevated Lighthouse performance scores by optimizing image handling, lazy loading, and build pipelines.
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's degree
App Academy