Building reliable backend systems that solve hard problems at scale.

Experience

2021 — 2025CanalStaff Software Engineer

2021 — 2025

San Francisco, California, United States

Founding engineer on a marketplace commerce platform from Seed through Series A to acquisition by Rokt (July 2025) serving enterprise clients like Nordstrom, Target, and NBCUniversal

Grew and led the backend team from 2 to 4 engineers, establishing code review standards, CI/CD practices, and on-call processes

2020 — 2021LyftSoftware Engineer

2020 — 2021

San Francisco Bay Area

Pay Processing

2017 — 2020Bristol-Myers SquibbData Engineer

2017 — 2020

San Francisco Bay Area

Built serverless REST API in Python on AWS using API Gateway and Lambda backed by a PostgreSQL database

Implemented fault-tolerant, scalable file ingestion pipeline orchestrated on Airflow using Docker and S3

Worked with bench scientists to develop reactive graphing applications using Python, Plot.ly, Dash, and Pandas

Developed extract-transform-load modules for LabKey Server, an open-source server built with Java Spring MVC

2015 — 2015Celgene CorporationData Science Intern

2015 — 2015

San Francisco, CA

Building responsive web tools with HTML and JavaScript to allow scientists to interact with their data.

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor's degree

Waseda University

School of International Liberal Studies

Burlingame High School