2026 — Now
San Francisco, CA
2022 — 2026
Palo Alto, CA
● Replaced manual outreach by CX agents with a backend AWS Kinesis automation pipeline that
processes vendor data, creates CRM profiles, and sends text messages. Freed up CX time and
increased user outreach scale. Decreasing time spent by agents from 2 hours down to 2 minutes.
● Migrated bank transaction ingestion from Plaid to Akoya, including Chase. Updated web services,
queue handlers, and background jobs to call Akoya APIs, store normalized data, and support front-end
connection flows—cost savings by 30%.
● Designed a queue-based processing system to classify transactions from multiple sources and persist
enriched results in DynamoDB. Integrated ML gRPC services to replace legacy string-matching logic.
Reduced classification errors by 25% and improved transaction processing throughput by 40%,
enabling downstream services to access normalized data via new API endpoints.
● Partnered with ML teams to consume earnings eligibility predictions from Kafka. Created scheduled
jobs to ingest and persist ML results, then refactored legacy earnings logic to leverage ML
insights—leading to improved grant accuracy by 10% of users.
● Solved production outages by designing a per-bank fixed-window rate limiter with async fallback
publishing. Ensured reliable third-party communication and prevented API throttling reducing error
rates by 40%.
2022 — 2022
Remote
● Designed and implemented a role-based access control system for API permissions using Go,
enabling fine-grained authorization and secure user management.
● Add APIs for bulk items for a Ruby-based synchronization service (etcd), ensuring seamless user
management across legacy and modern systems during product migration.
● Developed service account management features to facilitate secure machine-to-machine
authentication, improving automation and system interoperability.
2020 — 2021
Remote
● Built and maintained B2B e-commerce APIs with Ruby on Rails, decreasing customer support tickets
by 30% thanks to automation of shipping and invoicing.
● Sole developer on the B2B e-commerce frontend, improving UX by refactoring and modernizing a
legacy React app with TypeScript, EmotionJS, and React Hooks.
● Enhanced the B2C e-commerce site by implementing accessibility features, leading to a 20%
improvement in Lighthouse accessibility score and a 15% reduction in Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS),
contributing to better SEO and user experience.
2019 — 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
● Maintained and contributed to public data sampling APIs with Golang and gRPC (microservice)
enabling 2.5x user growth on research platforms.
● Led redesign of internal survey tool UI, cutting user-reported errors by 10% and improving satisfaction
scores.
● Delivered a new React-based B2B survey-building platform that reduced project setup times by 20%.
● Rewrote core analytical fetch tools, which reduced computation costs by $25,000 annually and
improved report generation speed from minutes to seconds.
Education
2017 — 2019
San José State University
Master's degree
2017 — 2019
2015 — 2017
San José State University
Bachelor's degree
2015 — 2017