• Modernized critical table, search, filter, and sorting components to unlock React 19 upgrade, accelerating the company-wide upgrade roadmap by 6 months of developer effort

• Proposed and led the rewrite of Verkada’s component library documentation using Storybook to define standards and usage patterns in a consistent format, improving developer velocity and reducing questions

• Introduced dark mode support across core components and developed a migration pattern and AI automation tools and scripts to accelerate company-wide theme adoption

• Developed 3 new core components and refactored 7 existing components in the design system, adopted by 5 product teams with consistently positive feedback on ease of use

• Led the frontend redesign of License Manager using React and TypeScript, enabling $100M in bookings and $100M in pipeline across 250+ enterprise customers; featured in the VerkadaOne keynote

• Authored technical specifications and coordinated with Product Management to organize tasks for two senior engineers and deliver on an aggressive founder-set timeline with on-time feature completion

• Supported graduate student success through group mentorship on research, academic

development, and career planning

• Advised master’s students monthly on professional skill-building and career navigation, drawing on industry and academic experience

• Developed 6 custom generative AI chatbots with varying scopes of course materials as contextual documents and compared bot performance by the specificity of external knowledge available

• Analyzed hallucination and helpfulness rates of bot responses (per scope) with an evaluation by a team of course experts on sample student questions about course projects

• Publication: “Specialist vs Generalist AI for Student Learning,” American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), June 2025

• Lead TA for upper-level web systems course to 2,700+ students over 5 semesters, covering full-stack development (React, Flask, SQL), AWS, REST APIs, search engines, and distributed systems (MapReduce, Hadoop)

• Lead weekly lab sections for 30+ students to reinforce lecture material and provide hands-on practice with fundamental web development concepts

• Delivered primary lectures to ~100 students in the absence of the professor

• Held office hours and moderated an online Piazza forum to offer individual guidance on project requirements and debugging techniques

• Designed and tested exam questions to ensure clarity and quality of content evaluation

• Maintained course autograder infrastructure by writing unit tests, managing Docker images, and upgrading dependencies to support evolving project requirements

• Redesigned course projects including an Instagram clone (React functional components) and search engine (web scraper implementation), adapting curriculum to current industry standards and improving student learning outcomes

Leadership Responsibilities: Autograder Admin, Project Lead, eecs485.org Maintainer, Piazza Admin, Recorded Lab Section