I'm a Software Engineer with experience developing Javascript applications with specialization in with experience building commercial applications with JavaScript, React and Node.
Experience
2024 — Now
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
Architected and deployed an automated story-building engine, enabling content creators to design immersive, web-based multi-platform experiences and interactive entertainment products
Implemented a robust, event-driven infrastructure with AWS Lambda, Twilio and Node.js serving as the backbone for integration of technical touch points for an interactive storytelling tool
Crafted innovative client-side applications with React and Next.js for puzzle-based, immersive experiences
Utilized React and Tailwind CSS’s utility-first approach to faithfully replicate Figma designs to streamline feature development and styling, accelerating product delivery times and ensuring visual consistency across products
Executed a state management overhaul from Redux to Zustand, harnessing its simplified, hooks-based approach, achieving a more intuitive codebase and a 14% reduction in frontend code
Integrated generative AI content into user onboarding workflows via OpenAi and Gemini API integration with Express.js servers, delivering dynamic and context-aware content for immersive user experiences
Integrated unit testing into multiple client applications using Jest, Vitest, and React Testing Library, achieving a 63% increase in front-end test coverage, mitigating regressions, and ensuring robust codebase stability
Collaborated with the QA team to integrate Cypress E2E testing across the core UI platform, component library and Jenkins CI/CD pipeline, resulting in a 22% reduction of post-deployment bug reports
Onboarded and mentored new engineering team members, established engineering guidelines and workflows, contributed to architecture, product design and planning as an early team member
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2023
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Leveraged React, TypeScript, Apollo GraphQL and CSS-in-JS to create core UI features for an intelligent document intake platform enabling users to build custom ML models, datasets, and data pipeline workflows
Led the integration of a pluggable OCR solution by abstracting OCR functionality into more modular architecture, leading to lower server costs, more empowered users and a 6% increase in revenue
Partnered with product and design teams to build a custom, React-based component library using Storybook, boosting feature delivery by over 30% and enhancing brand integrity via reusable components
Spearheaded the transition of React class-based components from JavaScript to functional components with hooks in TypeScript, enhancing type safety by 40% and streamlining code maintenance and performance
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
Engineered a cross-platform desktop tool for testing real-time features by serving stub data over WebSocket and SSE protocols in the absence of a complete backend server
Developed a state management solution with Redux and Thunk utilizing a singleton server manager abstraction, facilitating the creation and control of server instances directly from the frontend
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Created Shopify storefronts using HTML, CSS and Shopify Liquid APIs for emerging e-commerce businesses
Education
University of California, Davis
Master of Arts - MA
Southeast Missouri State University