I lead two teams at Kapwing (an online video editor). Our platform team does work optimizing our frontend and web server performance. Our generative ai team produces ai enabled features for our users.

2024 — NowKapwingStaff Software Engineer

2024 — Now

San Francisco, California, United States

Built Personas product which Lip Syncs and overdubs user content. Comarketed with multiple lip sync vendors.

Rebuilt studio mobile web experience to more closely resemble native experience. Significantly boosted export and upgrade conversions

Launched usage based billing an internal tools for enterprise plan

Built tess.design, a new platform for properly licensed AI image editing

2022 — 2024KapwingSoftware Engineering Manager, Various Teams

2022 — 2024

San Francisco Bay Area

Platform Team:

Defined metrics for tracking frontend performance over time. Led team to introduce new telemetry. Frontend performance is 99% since I started at Kapwing

Gen AI/Dubbing Team:

Personally delivered Kapwing's first suite of AI (GPT3.5/4) enabled tools (video generator, script generator, meme generator, document to video, image generator)

Led team to continue owning the quality of AI tools and launch new experiences like auto b-roll

Launched the dubbing product which used machine translation, transcription, and voice cloning.

2021 — 2022KapwingSoftware Engineer, Studio Team

2021 — 2022

Frontend performance and playback for the Kapwing editor. This role involves deep knowledge of HTMLMediaElements as well as precise usage of profiling tools to optimize the web app performance.

Owned development of proprietary playback system.

Experimented with webcodecs and mp4box to render content

Increased reliability of automated Cypress and Jest suite. Began blocking PR merges based on test status.

Created an android PWA app and launched it.

2021 — 2021KapwingSoftware Engineer, Growth Team

2021 — 2021

Developed plugins which allow creators to interact with third party applications from within the Kapwing editor

Improved technical SEO: auto-generating sitemaps, migrated to next.js (improve lighthouse scores from ~25 to ~99), fixed response codes on 404 pages

Created Text to Video Generator using GANs

Delivered complete redesign of the studio product

Tech stack is React, Redux, Typescript, SASS/SCSS, and Express. Other things it's involved are GCP cloud functions, PUG, and API integration.