Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
• Systems Design & Architecture team at Digital Promise, a national nonprofit focused on improving education through technology and data
• From 0→1, designed and developed a district leader recruitment platform using React, AWS Amplify, and Lambda with secure APIs for form submissions, centralizing all recruitment stages into a single platform, and enabling timely evaluations across 40+ districts. Saved 30 hours per month for internal teams
• Built and maintained event-driven ETL pipelines to consolidate multi-source data (Canvas, device usage, claims, inventory, Zendesk, Zoom) into PostgreSQL and Grafana, supporting reporting across 300+ schools and 1,000,000+ records, reducing manual updates by 90% and enabling real-time operational insights for leaders
• Led development of full-stack dashboards and data visualization tools using React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, MUI, and Chart.js, featuring hierarchical filtering, role-based views, and real-time visualizations, empowering leaders with data-driven decisions
• Implemented platform security and access control using Okta SSO, IAM authentication, token-protected endpoints, and role-based permissions, streamlining access for internal and external users while ensuring compliance
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
San Jose, California, United States
• Joined Pre-Seed, Employee #5
• Led frontend development and backend API creation for custom tag feature allowing users to categorize contacts
• Built a CSV import pipeline with dynamic column mapping and user-defined properties using Node.js and Knex with PostgreSQL, reducing onboarding time by 70% for new customer datasets and eliminating manual data entry
• Constructed the billing page using React, Redux Toolkit, and TypeScript, integrating the Stripe API to enable users to add funds and review payment history securely
• Implemented token management functionality in the Node.js Express API, automatically removing expired password reset tokens, improving system efficiency, and reducing storage and maintenance costs by 25%.
• Conducted in-depth user data analysis through the integration of Amplitude on the client side, facilitating comprehensive tracking of different user events for enriched data-driven insights
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
San Diego, California, United States
Amazon Fresh
• Generated business metric reports and developed analytical tools for hundreds of global third-party merchants
• Created AWS Glue definitions and set up daily job scripts for processing, transforming, and loading upstream data across both development and production environments
• Facilitated migration of deprecated tables by updating existing SQL queries and integration tests to match new data sources
• Ensured validation of query changes by utilizing AWS Athena for comprehensive query testing on backfilled S3 data
• Enhanced each data report’s dependency checker to ensure availability and proper ingestion for over 50 upstream data tables
• Helped team save over 10% of monthly costs by upgrading legacy infrastructure and addressing tech debt
• Migrated EC2 instances to more cost-effective and energy-efficient types and implemented new Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs)
2020 — 2022
2020 — 2022
Berkeley, California, United States
• Built a data aggregation pipeline for Manticore Games to determine user retention rates across different streaming platforms
• Utilized Python and Pandas for data visualization and analysis, resulting in cost savings of over $3000 on influencer campaigns
• Increased quantity of traffic to client’s website by over 20% by optimizing keyword usage and effectiveness with SEO tools
• Developed marketing strategies and gathered research data to strengthen the brand ambassador program and rewards system
2021 — 2021
2021 — 2021
Cloud Engineering Team
• Designed and implemented a full-stack Angular application used by directors within the cloud engineering organization to configure authorization and approval settings, reducing the time it previously took to manage security permissions by 50%
• Utilized Vert.x, Java, and Maven to integrate the customer service validation API for authenticating director IDs and the service group API for adding new permissions
• Engaged in Agile Scrum practices, collaborated with the team to manage user stories, and maintained project progress using JIRA
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts - BA
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS
Granada Hills Charter