An enthusiastic and creative developer seeking a software engineering position with a special interest in architecture, real-world solutions, and team development.
Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
San Francisco Bay Area
2024 — 2025
2024 — 2025
San Francisco Bay Area
Lead the technical implementation of a new User Profile microservice with Spring
Boot, and Kotlin with gRPC as communication protocol
Owned the engineering design, and backend implementation, and full release of a PDF
document composer for the purpose of company customized legal NDA agreements that
are to be signed by visitors
Restructured the Rails service architecture, with added robustness in code coverage, and logging, of the facial recognition functionality which utilizes AWS Rekognition to stream-
line visitor check-in that is available to all opted-in companies
2020 — 2024
2020 — 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
Owning the implementation, design, and release of the Orders Cancellation/Refund endpoint which encapsulates item cancellation, payment refunding, and restocking for orders orchestrated by the Order Manager application available to all merchants
Led the implementation of a Rails service to export merchant order data, leveraging gRPC and AWS S3. With strong coordination with product and supporting engineering teams, was able to successfully roll out the functionality to 250k global Square Online and Order Manager using merchants
Utilized MySQL and Looker to estimate projected cloud spend and capacity in order to support new service feasibility, as well as ensure a 99% uptime SLA in global roll-out to all Order Manager users
Owned, and implemented, with QUnit tested EmberJS, the complete frontend SQ Payroll application workflow for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Forgiveness. Released to all 2MM merchants, 53% of second round PPP borrowers were able to apply and be granted $30MM in loan forgiveness
Identified testing pains and combined expertise of Postman, Newman CLI, and Bash to implement engineering automation tooling to create sample data in the staging environment
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
Undertook a backend engineering lead role on IRA, and splitting joint investment accounts efforts architectures and designs to deliver RESTful APIs provided by a Rails service on PostgreSQL
Identified feature gap in support of investment accounts for non-US citizens and single-handedly implemented full-stack support as a hack day effort which was then deployed to production
Worked with third party Apex Clearing and Plaid APIs for delivering financial account management app features
Owned the CI/CD infrastructure and its migration to CircleCI 2.0. By leveraging workflow configurations, was able to cut build times by 50\% and simplify deployment processes to staging and production environments
Took initiative to implement coding standards by incorporating CodeClimate into the engineering process which improvement test coverage from 91% to 96%
Launched, and managed the Twine internship program which brought in 2 interns on a 4 month-long term
2016 — 2018
2016 — 2018
San Francisco Bay Area
Tech-led a team of four engineers to deliver thoroughly tested RESTful APIs and Rails application features with aid of RSpec and TDD methodologies
Focused on reliability and end-to-end testing, managed the CI/CD workflows utilizing CircleCI, and BrowserStack
Spearheaded the Vineti internship program, bringing in leadership/mentorship opportunities, as well as opening the full-time engineer hiring funnel
Education
University of Waterloo
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.)
Sir Winston Churchill