Developed the back-end REST API with Laravel, ReactJS and InertiaJS powering the front-end. Handled data modeling and integrations and e2e testing. Built a number of features, such as billing (with Paddle), student management, a calendar feature, AI-assisted writing features, live notifications with Laravel Echo, an interactive worksheets system for students, an invite/referral system, anonymous feedback and feature request tool, and integrations with third party APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Pixabay, Hotpot.ai, Backblaze B2 (AWS S3 alternative), and Postmark for transactional emails.

Developed front-end web application and marketing website using ReactJS with Typescript and TailwindCSS. Created all application chrome (sidebar, navbar, etc), an interactive worksheets interface, an interactive storybook feature, a report-generation UI with job scheduling and live notifications, and more. Installed Sentry for error monitoring and implemented Tawk chat support with AI Chat Bot support.

Designed brand identity and elements like typography, color palette, tone, etc.

Created the Plosive Blog using WordPress, deployed on Cloudways.

Created customer support resources, such as a knowledge base on Tawk.to's platform.

Coordinated with Mortgage Ops (Advisors, Loan Managers, Compliance), Designers, PMs, and fellow engineers to help maintain and add new features to an internal proprietary loan origination system as well as our public-facing data sign-up and ingestion flow

Co-led engineering effort to revamp document ingestion flow, significantly improving automaticity at scale for Mortgage Ops

Led front-end engineering efforts to overhaul internal LOS to IBM's Carbon design system, reducing initial development time and maintenance overhead for business critical functionality

Led front-end engineering effort to public-facing sign-up flow to support multiple borrowers

Worked as part of on-call PagerDuty rotation, triaging and fixing incidents and maintaining relevant documentation

Maintained dependencies and build system, culling deprecated dependencies, overseeing Webpack and Node version upgrades, reconfiguring the build system for M1 machines, etc

General champion for front-end. Worked to boost web accessibility, responsiveness, discoverability of front-end tooling for back-end oriented developers, and more

Develop & maintain 5+ responsive marketing sites built using various web technologies (SCSS + PHP, Hugo, Gin w/ Go Templates, Timber WP)

Configure build processes with Webpack 4, Yarn, shell scripts

Built internal testing utilities (Python, Go), containerized them (Docker, AWS ECR, AWS S3), and integrated them into Jenkins CI

Created several highly varied internal scripts in JS, Bash, Go, and Python for misc testing, file format conversion, data scraping & parsing, i18n translations, automated PDF generation, etc.

Creates static visual mockups using Sketch.

Develops website front-ends using tools like SCSS, Zurb Foundation, Typekit, and more.

Develops more complicated websites and web applications using the Laravel Framework (with Forge). Handles deployment of websites and configuration of DNS servers.

I brew the coffee.

Tutored clients on how to use their new websites effectively

Researched and adopted best practices like responsive design, cross-

Researched and adopted modern technologies like Jekyll, SASS, Gulp, Zsh,

Led a freelancing group (“Hive”) on Freelancers Union, allowing other