Part of Discords first advertising event-focused team, expanding from 1 six-engineer team to now 4

Co-led development of the first Shop-integrated Quest. Launched a full-stack MVP in <4 weeks. Campaign for Amazon Games reached 6M+ users and 150K+ rewards, with 50% reach international.

Led integration of Discord Orbs (virtual currency) for Quests. Partnered with Payments and Shop teams over 6 months to deliver API/UI overhaul for a 200K-user public beta, with >25M Orbs paid out in first 24hrs

Co-built the first internal content management tools for Quest launches. Led onboarding for non-technical ad ops users via training sessions and documentation. Tool is now our primary launch method, with dozens of successful campaigns

Conducted 10+ interviews for mid and senior-level engineers across the ads org and contributed to hiring calibration discussions.

Accessibility ambassador for the ads department, conducting UI audits and leading accessibility knowledge-sharing among engineers.

Designed and led development of our proprietary real-time matchmaking graph, built on Elixir, Rust, WebGPU and RabbitMQ, capable of matching 1M total users in real-time and syncing >100 updates/sec

Solo built + launched Elixir/Postgres-backed core REST/real-time socket API for the Checkmate App, reaching 50k DAU, #15 in the App Store’s social category, and >400k requests/hr. Includes ~500 unit/integration tests

Solo built + launched propriety social recommendation graph for Checkmate, built on Elixir and Neo4j (with custom-built Elixir driver), currently in production handling 20M unique nodes and 45M unique edges

Built companies custom DevOps CLI in Python to run tests, build Docker artifacts, run migrations, and deploy to new/existing AWS ECS services automatically, or scaffold new services from scratch via Cloudformation

Built + launched the company's first React-based user account portal and Python-based API to securely collect and analyze user submission data for over 200k students across 87 U.S. universities.

Built company to $6K monthly revenue within 6 months and $23K annual profit after first year

Built and deployed 5 full-stack React/Node applications to production over a 2 year period, including clients from BioTech, Healthcare, and Real Estate industries. Hosted on GCP

Led development team of 3 engineers and implemented weekly product performance reviews with clients, weekly story prioritization meetings, and weekly feature releases through an automated DevOps pipeline

Launched real-estate agent matchmaking service AreYouHouseReady with 50+ agents subscribed to paid tier

Contributed to the apps Node.js/MongoDB backend and custom UI kit in the app's React Native frontend

Organized and led bi-weekly app usability studies with 20+ students and 5 club presidents

Designed 30+ unique screens and prototypes, contributing to a 50% increase in development velocity