digital creative, graduate in computer science x architectural studies, My mission? Leveraging technology to tell stories; to build bridges between bits and narratives, and creating platforms that transform the way we explore and understand our world.
2021 — Now
New York, United States
Spearheaded the technical approach for Holy Week's podcast digital experience, collaborating with editorial, design, and audio teams to create a customized listening experience. Enhanced audio products site-wide through shared components and libraries.
Successfully migrated high-touch surfaces from legacy Django website to Next.js and GraphQL, resulting in faster page loads, improved site-wide security, and enhanced developer productivity.
Led the technical rearchitecture of audio to incorporate a native player, enabling better analytics, increased experimentation, and improved page performance.
Continuously improved and maintained audio infrastructure, supporting the development and launch of multiple new podcasts and audio experiences since joining the team. This work significantly improved audio platform performance, nearly doubling article play rates across the site.
Initiated and led a team-wide documentation sprint that involved auditing and refreshing existing documentation, promoting increased clarity, and reducing onboarding time for new team members.
Greater New York City Area
Trained and mentored three new employees in agile technical configuration on our platform.
Assisted in developing demo solutions for clients in insurance, finance, and life sciences sectors, showcasing versatility across industries.
Helped maintain and develop new features for the COVID-19 meal delivery support solution for Washington, DC, impacting over 100,000 residents.
Trained and mentored three new employees in agile technical configuration on the Unqork platform, demonstrating leadership and knowledge transfer skills.
Took a lead role in interviewing and hiring over six high school apprentices, who joined two separate teams, contributing to the company's talent acquisition efforts.
Created and executed automated unit tests across the full front-end suite to detect bugs and improve code quality, enhancing overall product reliability.
Configured potential client solutions for major financial services clients, gaining exposure to high-profile projects and client-facing experiences.
Engaged in initial market research for brand expansion into new product lines, contributing to the company's strategic growth initiatives.
Balanced software development tasks with exposure to client-facing projects, gaining diverse experience in both technical and business aspects of the role.
Greater New York City Area
Working at Unqork over three months full-time, I utilized my skills in software engineering (front-end web development), design, and IT. I was able to work on client projects, and develop internal tools for company usage.
Setup internal mobile device management software company-wide, and worked alongside CISO to integrate security policy on all company devices.
Designed customer performance metrics page
Participated in bug fixing, and purging of extraneous code.
Implemented a coding style guide, and linter onto all major coding projects.
Developed unit tests for all major front-end components
Prepared and executed demos for clients within short timeframes.
Developed templates, and modules in order to make form-building easier for internal configuration
Amherst, MA
Led the digital transformation of The Amherst Student, significantly increasing readership and modernizing the publication's technology stack and content strategy. Managed a team to implement innovative solutions across web development, content management, and social media engagement.
Managed the transition from Drupal to a modern Next.js website, incorporating machine learning for archival article retrieval. This resulted in a dramatic 733% increase in readership, growing from 1,200 to 10,000 monthly users.
Achieved exceptional 85-90% newsletter read rates across the community through data-driven content strategy and technical optimizations.
Coordinated with major internal stakeholders to iteratively improve the brand's digital presence according to evolving business needs.
Managed and trained a team of six in digital strategy, web development, and social media management, implementing agile methodologies and modern web practices. Curating a comprehensive social media strategy yielding a 75% increase in social traffic to the website.
Prepared alternative revenue models to support the newsroom's return to financial independence by Fall 2021.
Provided guidance and support to peer college newspapers in their transition towards becoming digital-first publications, establishing The Amherst Student as a leader in collegiate digital journalism.
New York, United States
Created a modular conversion package for transforming FOIAs to semantically-sane documents with Javascript
Fixed, and triaged over thirty scrapers of public health departments collecting COVID-19 data
Developed a workflow for processing reader sourced content (COVID-19 health bills) into our internal document-based
reporting system
Implemented a roadmap for migrating two million documents in AWS to a new platform hosted with GCP
Education
2017 — 2021
Amherst College
Bachelor's degree
2017 — 2021
2014 — 2017
High School of Economics and Finance
Economics and Entrepreneurship
2014 — 2017