Experience
United States
* Own the full SDLC, infra, and SRE for Fair Tech’s B2B/B2C car-warranty platform (7 k MAU, ~140 k API req/month). Lead a 4-person crew (1 Sr FE, 2 juniors) and set tech strategy for everything backend → prod.
* Green-field cloud stack: ECS Fargate + ALB, VPC, Cognito, RDS, S3, Secrets Manager, SES, Lambda; all IaC in Terraform; GitHub Actions → ECR → AWS. Legacy Flutter/Express/EC2 retired in favor of React/NestJS/ECS.
* Deployed CI/CD from zero to sub-2-minute autoships. Replaced manual SSH pulls with Dockerized builds, pre-commit hooks, test gates, and branch protection—hours of busy-work → zero per release; daily deploy cadence.
* Reliability uplift: introduced Datadog; slashed outage windows from hours to mere minutes and built HA topology (multi-AZ ECS vs. single EC2).
* Growth driver: shipped new quote + checkout flow with promo/plan logic—directly fueling 30 % MoM sales & user growth while platform spend only doubled to <$400/mo thanks to autoscaling.
* Process & culture: launched Scrum, GitHub Projects, bi-weekly retros/arch reviews, 1:1s; cut stand-ups 50 % (<15 min). Wrote issue / PR templates and review checklists.
* Leadership: mentor 2 juniors, recruited 1 Sr FE, review 100 % of PRs. Translate tech debt & cost forecasts for C-suite, keeping roadmap laser-focused on high-impact work.
* Security runway: architected authZ patterns and env-secret hygiene aligned with future PCI scope.
Stack highlights: TypeScript / NestJS / React • Docker • AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS, Cognito, S3, Lambda, SES) • Terraform • GitHub Actions • Datadog
2022 — 2024
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
* Frontend Development Ownership: Independently developed and owned 50% of the greenfield frontend for a LIMS and workflow management application, leveraging modular and composable modules for rapid feature delivery, reducing time to market by 50% while ensuring scalability and ease of updates. (Typescript, React, GCP, Apollo, GraphQL)
* Agile: Prepared weekly frontend version releases, with focus on driving down issue iteration time and prioritizing impactful issues.
* Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborated closely with engineering, product, and lab teams to refine features based on feedback, aligning technical solutions with stakeholder priorities and user needs. (Slack, Miro, GSuite)
* Code Quality and Maintainability: Delivered highly maintainable and testable code, resulting in 0% user frustration and 0 critical bugs, ensuring smooth operation for DNA construction workflows and minimizing disruptions for scientists.(Jest)
* Backend Feature Development: Enhanced functionality within an ORM and SQLAlchemy-based backend, supporting API integrations and working closely with team leads to align features with core architecture. (Python, mypy, pytest)
* Effective with Ambiguity: Proactively scoped and delivered features from vague requirements, establishing clear objectives with stakeholders and improving release consistency. (Github)
Observability and Reliability: Employed Datadog for proactive performance monitoring and reliability checks, identifying issues early to enhance stability across production environments.
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
* Full-Stack Platform Development: Led an engineering team of 3 developing and deploying a full-stack platform on AWS, optimizing clinical data storage and retrieval to improve access for healthcare partners. (React, JavaScript, Confluence, Jira)
* Cloud Infrastructure Management: Managed AWS resources, including EC2, S3, CodeCommit, CloudWatch, AWS Lambda, VPC, DynamoDB (NoSQL), security groups, and AWS Amplify, for four years, ensuring high availability and security.
* Data Warehousing: Oversaw the implementation of three Healthcare Clinical Data Warehouses using a hybrid of on-premise and cloud solutions, enabling efficient, centralized data storage for healthcare analytics. (Trello)
* ETL Process Management: Successfully managed ETL workflows to migrate clinical data to a warehouse for a hospital in China, leading a team of engineers and ensuring clear, seamless communication with international partners and clients.
2016 — 2018
* Quality and Accreditation Standards: Designed and managed over 10,000 Hospital Quality and Accreditation measures, achieving a 98% validation accuracy rate through close collaboration with local Chinese IT teams and hospital staff. (SQL)
* Data Validation: Ensured accuracy and efficiency by validating quality measures with local IT groups and hospital staff, improving data reliability for regulatory compliance.
* Database Management: Maintained over 700 stored procedures and managed 100+ source tables to streamline data access and improve analysis capabilities. (SAP HANA relational DB)
Mountain View, California, United States
* Co-developed emulsion PCR standard operating procedure and trained research assistants for lab scale throughput (5-10 employees).
* Emulsion PCR development for DNA sequencing on Roche 454 platform.
* Co-developed emulsion PCR standard operating procedure and trained research assistants for lab scale throughput (5-10 employees).
Education
UC San Diego
BS
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Master's degree
Punahou School