Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
San Francisco, California, United States
DFINITY Foundation is a not-for-profit organization developing the Internet Computer, a revolutionary blockchain network that transforms the internet into a decentralized cloud. Home to Caffeine AI, the world's first self-writing apps platform that enables users to create fully decentralized applications using natural language conversations, deployed directly on the blockchain without traditional coding.
• Shipped production-ready applications end-to-end for Caffeine's launch, including Tiny Tasks (featured in the live launch demo) and Habitual, demonstrating full ownership from concept to deployment.
• Led platform-wide UI/UX improvements across the App Marketplace, standardized theming architecture, and resolved critical user experience issues like Internet Identity sign-in flows.
• Enabled cross-team collaboration during Caffeine's high-stakes product launch through comprehensive technical documentation, shared component libraries, and developer enablement tools.
• Architected modern React/TypeScript solutions with mobile-first design, improving both developer experience and end-user experience while maintaining high delivery pace.
• Engineered 130 website frontend templates to be used as a RAG for our Caffeine AI Website Builder.
• Developed a Python website template generation system using CrewAI and MCP servers, with a mini software development team of 3 Agents and 3 Flows, to interact with the LLM and create technical documentation before building each template.
• Styled several of our Motoko-Training apps, to be used to train Caffeine for Website Creation.
• Developed Tailwind design system for Motoko-Training template sample-app to be used on all new apps created for Motoko-Training.
Skills: TypeScript · React · Python · CrewAI · MCP Servers · Tailwind · Technical Documentation · Mentorship
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
Oakland, California, United States
I started my LLC this year to take on more contract and consultancy work. If you're interested in my services, feel free to reach out.
I offer Full Stack Engineering in modern Javascript Frameworks, Graphic & UI/UX Design. I have over 16 years of software production experience, so I'm available for Consulting to address any Production Challenge.
2024 — 2025
2024 — 2025
San Francisco Bay Area
Series A Startup Nail Bar Appointment System, built with React & React-Native, Typescript & PostgreSQL for 5 clients in the Bay Area, with Admin & Client portals.
• Improved error logging on Admin portal, reducing lead time to diagnose errors by 12%.
• Created client follow-up email feature, utilizing more dynamic fields to personalize outreach, which improved retention rates by 7%.
• Managed release verification & deployment process, improving reliability by publishing checklists for the team.
• Created training documentation in Markdown, located in the documentation folder of the code repository.
Skills: TypeScript · React · React Native · Technical Documentation · Training · JavaScript
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
San Jose, California, United States
Automated financial operations platform providing end-to-end bill payments, invoicing, and accounts payable/receivable management for SMBs and midsize companies. AI-enabled platform that streamlines cash flow and payment processes. Worked with Angular & RxJS on the revenue-generating International Payments Team.
• Retrofitted existing Domestic payment flows with International options, to enable users to make International Payments with current exchange rates, increasing revenue by 15%.
• Operated across several teams to enable these features by working with the code owners to develop features and fix bugs.
• Wrote package.json scripts to streamline repetitive engineering tasks.
• Created training documentation in Markdown, on Confluence to onboard new engineers and standardize processes.
Skills: TypeScript · Angular · RxJS · Technical Documentation · Training · JavaScript
2021 — 2022
2021 — 2022
San Francisco Bay Area
Premier multi-channel specialty retailer of high-quality home furnishings and kitchenware, operating 625+ stores globally and distributing to 60+ countries. Portfolio includes Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, PBteen, West Elm, Williams-Sonoma Home, Mark and Graham, and Rejuvenation brands. Worked on the Micro Front End team, transitioning Production pages from 6 brands, into a unified Vue project.
• Engineered styling & architectural updates to Vue components to all 6 supported brands, including; the Product Information pages for the Purchasing Component & Product Flags Component, Shop pages, & Content pages.
• Solved Local Environment Stability Issues with a self-directed NodeJS project that automated engineering tasks, including; cloning 11 repos for multiple remotes per brand. This reduced the first-time setup for local development from about 1 week to 1/2 a day.
• Automated feature branch creation for our 4 repos with my script that created multiple feature branches with the JIRA ticket number, and updated local branches to the latest release code.
• Managed & Migrated pull requests from team-specific repos, to Bedrock & Release Management repos, including batch cherry-picked commits from my team to the upstream repos. I was responsible for making sure all of the features for the release were included in the release branches.
• Mentored junior engineers on my team with paired programming sessions and sharing my documentation.
**Skills:** Javascript · Vue · SASS · NodeJS · Shell · Markdown · Adobe Experience Manager · Mentorship
Education
University of New Orleans
Undergraduate
General Assembly