Hello! A bit about my career journey: I studied Psychology and Linguistics at Princeton University. For my thesis, I built a digital app that I could deploy on Amazon’s mTurk and also use with child participants on an iPad.

2023 — NowRemoteBackend Software Engineer

2023 — Now

2023 — 2023The Marriage PactBackend Software Engineer

2023 — 2023

New York, New York, United States

Architected a profile picture uploading system using Amazon S3, AWS Lambda and AWS CloudFront. Additionally created a staging environment and a testing interface to allow for proper integration into the existing application.

Created a question serving algorithm that would reduce duplicate question serving, and has since served millions of questions to users.

Pinpointed and removed bottlenecks in existing architecture by using background services (Elixir GenServers) to update frequently changing records in batches.

2022 — 2023Personal ProjectsSoftware Engineer

2022 — 2023

Personally architected, built, deployed and scaled a backend microservice on AWS

Deployed 3 AWS EC2 instances behind an NGINX load balancer to increase throughput of my Node Express microservice server by 2x.

Executed ETL on a large existing dataset to a PostgreSQL server to optimize complex querying and decrease query latency by 10,000x from 2000 to 0.2ms.

Implemented stress-testing through Loader.io and K6 to inform backend optimizations to reduce max response latencies from 3420ms to 982ms| 3.5 times faster under load of 500 to 1000 users.

2022 — 2022Personal ProjectsLead Backend Engineer

2022 — 2022

Designed and implemented a PostgreSQL schema for thousands of video games and deployment onto an AWS EC2 instance.

Constructed and managed API documentation for 20 Express endpoints, allowing for continuous integration with the front-end team.

Decreased complex SQL query latency by 150x for multiple entities.