Engineer who takes projects over the finish line. Lead Developer for Coder's official plugin in Spotify Backstage. Main developer for rebooting the Coder Registry into an open-source ecosystem (3x contributions and +15M downloads in 2025).
Experience
Austin, Texas, United States
Served as Lead Developer for Coder’s client SDK in Spotify’s Backstage platform, unlocking sales for over ten Fortune 500 companies, and driving a ~20% increase in marketing seminar attendance in H1 2024.
Led the reboot of the Coder Registry, turning a mostly internal tool into an open-source ecosystem for publishing plugins, tripling user contributions and boosting total plugin downloads by 15 million in 2025.
Co-led rewrite for the Coder Registry Terraform Server, delivering full rewrite for critical infrastructure in two months. Improved server availability from ~93% in late 2024 to +99.99% in all of 2025.
Reviewed résumés, graded take-homes, and interviewed 60+ mid-level and senior engineers over 20 months; was unanimously nominated to design rubrics and code challenges for first-ever staff-level frontend engineers.
Acted as Code Owner for flagship product’s frontend, guiding open-source contributors and four global teams on UI engineering best practices. Reduced turnaround time for frontend PRs by ~2 days in Q3 2025.
Rewrote data-fetching layer into dependency-injectable UI client, cutting test flakes in half though improved state isolation, and streamlining the API vendoring process for Backstage and Coder’s VSCode plugin.
Owned implementations and test suites for state management in the flagship frontend, designing well-tested, type-safe tools for WebSocket message parsing, pagination prefetching, and Go-to-TypeScript SSR hydration.
Provided consulting to design team and brand agencies for UI mockups for dashboards and marketing sites; stopped 40+ mobile UI edge cases and WCAG Level AA violations from reaching the implementation stage.
Mentored and oversaw Coder’s first intern, ensuring all feature work was completed on time in Q3 2025.
2022 — 2022
New York, New York, United States
Migrated critical files in ed tech platform to TypeScript, delivering updates two months ahead of schedule.
Designed new state management strategies in the React codebase, allowing components to opt into mutation-based UI updates decoupled from React’s render cycles, boosting average performance by over 40%.
Wrote articles and guidelines for TypeScript best practices as part of codebase migration. Provided concrete examples of how to avoid unsafe behaviors and maximize V8 engine performance.
Wrote technical articles for junior developers, covering topics like environment setup and the key concepts around request caching.
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Built BigQuery pipelines for product catalogs. Automated four-hour cleaning processes for datasets with 100k+ items into reproducible, two-second tasks, while reducing missing data fields by 45% for accurate reporting.
Rewrote legacy scripts into Google Apps Script, increasing the performance for fuzzy matching, data querying, and automated reporting by +400%, and improving integrations with in-house JavaScript tooling.
Worked on a broker management tool in Angular, creating various components for the in-house design system, and wrote algorithms for modeling rapidly-changing broker relationships.
Codified formal guidelines for doing code reviews, raising average ZenDesk SLA ticket compliance by 28%.
Waldorf, MD
Created Python scripts for generating low-stock inventory reports, slashing overstock and out-of-stock counts for the department by an average of 5% per period.
Created a UI for cross-referencing shelf tags against inventory backstock to identify which items could be stocked out, speeding up the process for replacing inventory by an average of 2 employee hours per day.
Performed inventory audits to reconcile backstock against database inventory counts, addressing variances in inventory value by a minimum of $10,000 per audit.
Accomplishments
Most profitable wellness department in the company in 2019.
Most profitable store in the company in 2019.
Education
University of Maryland Baltimore County