Software engineer that believes good design should permeate every aspect of the development process. I'm passionate about crafting digital experiences that users love. BS in Computer Science.
As first employee and engineer, led the architecture and development of Zealthy’s telemedicine platform, which scaled rapidly from zero to over 10,000 active patients and $1M monthly revenue within the first year.
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Leveraged a modern application stack consisting of TypeScript / JavaScript / Next.js / React frontend deployed on Vercel and PostgreSQL / Supabase backend, enabling our small team to iterate quickly and get an initial product to market in less than 5 months while ensuring the security and continued scalability of our systems.
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Scaled engineering team from 2 to 6 by conducting technical interviews and providing mentorship to new hires.
Rebuilt symptom search experience for Buoy’s AI symptom checker chatbot using React and JavaScript, including advanced features like typeahead autosuggestions powered by AWS Elasticsearch backend.
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As a subject-matter expert, played a key role in rapidly shipping a purpose-built coronavirus version of Buoy’s AI symptom checker chatbot as part of our COVID-19 response on behalf of the States of Massachusetts and Virginia (among other partners). https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/03/13/buoy-health-coronavirus-screening
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Identified opportunity and led initiative to leverage emerging Progressive Web App (PWA) standards in order to make Buoy’s web apps installable alongside native apps without having to maintain and ship separate codebases.
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Led company-wide accessibility initiative as engineering stakeholder. Performed accessibility audits alongside assistive technology users through Fable’s QA platform, then used insights to enhance the usability of Buoy’s web applications. https://makeitfable.com/buoy-health-accessibility-case-study/
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Led effort to enhance page-load performance of our Next.js (React) app which serves a library of high quality health and wellness content to millions of visitors, effectively cutting our p95 request latency in half (from a range of 250-350 ms to 100-150 ms per request).
Collaborated on $46 million project to develop next-generation student information system, Catalyst, utilizing JavaScript, ReactJS, and react-router, which today is relied upon by nearly 50,000 students.
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Provided student-centric User Experience insight during component design meetings, contributed 100+ design enhancements over multiple iterations.
