Full-stack software engineer with 6 years shipping customer-facing features across mobile, web, and backend systems. I started on the frontend — React Native, TypeScript, GraphQL — and have spent the last few years moving deeper into the stack, now primarily building Go services and async architecture at DailyPay.

2024 — NowDailyPay, Inc.Senior Software Engineer

2024 — Now

Implemented server-side rendered pages throughout our front-end ecosystem via a Go based backend-for-frontend with Templ templates and Tailwind CSS. This combined data fetching with page generation, significantly reduced network traffic to a single call and eliminated React lifecycle re-renders, resulting in remarkably efficient views that can be updated without a series of tightly coupled and highly distributed deployments between backend and front-end applications.

Developed an encapsulated service for all business logic pertaining to On-Demand Pay. The original business logic was approximately 10 years old. The new on-demand pay service enforces stringent business logic and re-implemented business-critical workflows for creating and validating transfers with a renewed perspective, meticulously designed to meet contemporary business requirements.

Built a REST backend for frontend microservice in Go to transition architecture from a Ruby on Rails monolith with a graphQL data layer to a mesh of microservices. This improved loading times for the client facing mobile and web app dashboards by over 10x, along with significant cost reduction and improved developer experience.

2021 — 2024DailyPay, Inc.Software Engineer

2021 — 2024

New York, New York, United States

Maintain and extend consumer facing mobile and web applications built on react native, expo router, react native for web and Apollo GraphQL

Overhauled paycheck views in apps to help users reconcile paycheck data and reduce support call volume

Worked on a team to integrate reward system and claim flow

Gained familiarity and fluency with mobile application release processes for iOS and android, and CI services like Bitrise for deployment pipelines and end to end testing (Detox)

2020 — 2021tonebase, inc.Frontend Developer

2020 — 2021

Focused on building/maintaining consumer platform with React, NextJS, and Node

Built a responsive custom video player with full playback controls/timeline, resizable video/score elements, various modals, progress tracking and the ability to switch source video/peripheral content without refreshing the page

Implemented various navigation redesigns, tonebase LIVE, tonebase community via a heavily customized implementation of forumbee

Wrote a custom checkout application using jQuery and ChargeBee via an injected script in a static landing page

2017 — 2019Penn State UniversityGraduate Teaching Assistant

2017 — 2019

State College, Pennsylvania, United States

Applied saxophone lesson instructor for select music majors, minors, and non-majors. Additional duties included teaching saxophone methods class to undergraduate music education majors, where my previous experience as a band director was used to educate students how to teach saxophone lessons in their own public school program. In the case of advisor absence (travel day, sick day), all saxophone studio related classes were taught by me.

2016 — 2017Mamaroneck Union Free School DistrictTeacher

2016 — 2017

Director of elementary band programs at Chatsworth Ave and Mamaroneck Ave schools. Taught small lesson groups with all band instruments, sectionals, and large ensemble rehearsals. Students consisted of 4th and 5th grade students. Responsible for directing and organizing 4 bands.

Education

2017 — 2019

Penn State University

Master of Music - MM

2017 — 2019

2020

Hack Reactor

Advanced Software Engineering Immersive

2020

2010 — 2015

University of Hartford

Bachelor's of Music - BMus

2010 — 2015

Experience+

Education

Master of Music - MM

Advanced Software Engineering Immersive

Bachelor's of Music - BMus