doing web3 stuff
2022 — 2024
New York, United States
Solidity, Hardhat, React JS, Node JS, Tailwind CSS
Founded and built the Mash platform, a primary NFT marketplace (currently deployed on ETH/Polygon) & DAO for creators to facilitate cross-media artist collaboration, innovate the minting process by allowing users to create custom multimedia NFTs curated from original works, and fully-decentralize artist/fan community discovery
Architected and implemented entire full-stack NFT launch marketplace from scratch w/ full-service suite of gas-optimized Solidity contracts
ERC721-C contracts to manage collaborative, cross-media NFT collections
Perpetual, code-enforced royalties built directly into contract + interface support for popular secondary NFT marketplaces
Payments contracts to escrow, manage, and facilitate payouts to artists from mint proceeds, split dynamically between collaborators
Full-stack web application with sleek UI for artists to share their multimedia collaborative collections & allow end users to select their favorite works and remix them into a “Mashed” masterpiece
Secure web3 client + web2 IPFS gateway to enable minting NFT’s & saving metadata on a decentralized network on the fly
Manage small team of engineers/designers and play instrumental role in running our DAO, including artist relations, funding, recruiting, and design
2024 — 2024
New York, United States
Typescript
Implement essential features in core backend services including blockchain transactions API, complex token vesting algorithms, and seamlessly integrating web2 platform with web3 backend (smart contracts)
Build out core token vesting platform, including work on token distribution, airdrops, allocation vesting scheduling, and token deployment
Work on user-facing platform frontend, including various features and improvements on token vesting dashboards, vesting distribution customizations, and complex scheduling modules
2024 — 2024
New York, New York, United States
Solidity, Circom, Typescript
Implement first iterations of core platform, including smart contracts, ZK circuits, and architecture design, from idea stage as first engineering hire
Build out core smart contract protocol using Solidity to facilitate permissionless access to a modular, decentralized network of ZK Proof verification tools and application primitives for developers
Design, research, and implement suite of ZK circuits using Circom, SnarkJS, and ZKEmail to enable trustless, secure computation on email as a data source
Develop end-to-end MVP for Strobe’s first PoC use case, an on-chain prediction market using ZK-verified email alerts as an oracle for settlement source-of-truth
2020 — 2021
New York, New York, United States
Java, various AWS services, MySQL
Core developer on Amazon’s Multi Marketplace Advertising (MMA) global stack - scaling cross-marketplace advertising, launching new features for Amazon Sellers/Advertisers in worldwide marketplaces, and optimizing ad-serving algorithms
Instrumental work designing and implementing various new advertising features across Amazon’s complex ad-serving stack, working with a team that supports worldwide feature support and data availability
Lead engineering roles on launch initiatives of core advertising services in new marketplaces such as Brazil, Singapore, Turkey, and more
Extensive work designing and implementing from scratch various new advertising features and infrastructure scaling frameworks for Sponsored Products & Sponsored Brands (the curated banner and feed ads users worldwide are served dynamically while searching and scrolling on Amazon.com)
Made mission-critical code contributions across various different Amazon internal codebases including ad-serving engines, ad-ranking algorithms, and ad aggregators
Extensive experience implementing code to perform at global scale, analyzing and improving algorithmic efficiency, and optimizing and troubleshooting database operations/queries at this massive scale
Completely redesigned and re-implemented MMA’s core data models and wrote new internal API libraries for easier cross-team development, faster query speeds, and better runtime efficiency
2018 — 2020
New York, NY
Python 3.7, Django, Docker, MySQL, Flask, AWS, SQLAlchemy, Celery, RabbitMQ
Extensive work on the core platform using Python 3.7, Django, MySQL, and Docker: rescheduling algorithm to generate suggestions via Celery tasks for optimal open appointment slots for patients based on complex criteria
Work on suggestion generation and filtering logic of core rescheduling algorithm
Build out conversational decision tree logic to automate interactions with patients to offer them appointment reschedule suggestions, reschedule patients based on their responses, and update external EHR systems accordingly
Design and build internationalization framework to allow core conversational interface to support any language
Incorporate support for Twilio SMS and voice calling, optimize 3rd party data processing and API push/pull interactions
Work on integration layer that interfaces with 3rd party EHR systems to efficiently pull and transform various hospital and patient data
Create custom method for pulling millions of historical appointment records via Athena/Redox API’s to account for rate limiting, optimize batching for data wrangling and database writing, and merge records from different sources
Build out pipelines to pre-process external data and map to internal processes
Create metrics infrastructure from the ground up
Design and build metrics framework to scalably and efficiently generate a customizable metrics report and send in CSV format via email
Write complex SQL queries (Django ORM) to generate over 50 unique, highly complex data points for important metrics for stakeholders
Create A/B testing framework from the ground up
Work on A/B testing library (to be open-sourced!) to allow developers to easily create complex A/B testing features, and add these features to cohorts of patients and providers
Design and build microservice application using Flask, Docker, and SQLAlchemy, and deploy on AWS, to allow for simple UX to create and manage A/B features
Education
2013 — 2017
Rutgers University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
2013 — 2017