I’m an entrepreneur and full-stack product engineer who actively pursues projects that put me outside of my comfort zone. I constantly challenge myself and my team to create scalable software products that provide an effortless user experience.
San Francisco Bay Area
Joined Infrastructure Automation Engineering (IAE) to lead EvidenceMap, a full stack compliance project. Transitioned to help drive Box’s ServiceCatalog cloud asset tracker initiative when IAE merged into Information Security Management (ISM). Recognized as the go-to full stack, Django, UI/UX, & ReactJS team expert.
🚀 Projects 📈
EvidenceMap
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Introduced mockups to the IAE project planning process: gathered dashboard requirements, collaborated with Product Design to create nine page layouts, & presented the designs to upper management. Delivered the MVP of an entirely rebuilt GUI while maintaining EvidenceMap’s core services, integrating end-to-end (E2E) testing, converting the developer portal from Django to Backstage, & migrating the stack to GCP products (GKE, MemoryStore, CloudSQL).
ServiceCat
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Co-lead the development of a new feature of Box’s central service catalog: a compliance tool
designed to track & map all cloud assets(compute instances, disks, OS's) to services and owners. This feature played an integral role in the April 2024 compliance audits conducted for Box’s FedRAMP High authorization.
2019 — Now
San Diego Metropolitan Area
Joined this community of 300+ worldwide CTOs to better deliver technology strategy & execution. Collaborate with senior leaders & peers to solve complex technical challenges, leverage cutting-edge industry trends, & build high-performing teams. Engage in 1:1 sessions, biweekly group coaching, & community discussions.
2016 — Now
Buena Park, California / Kansas City, Missouri
SaRA Health improves the healthy movement of users through a gamified musculoskeletal wellness platform. Use of the app reduces insurance costs, allows real-time interaction between patients and healthcare providers, and provides each user with a customized, achievable path to physical resilience.
Origin story: Conceptualized as a Medtech class project and 2017 MBA Thesis subject, SaRA Health incorporated and seeded with $325K from accelerators Techstars (2018) and Nex Cubed (2019)
As SaRA’s CTO, cultivate a lean methodology culture focused on rapid growth, iterative development, continuous improvement, & innovative solutions to large, often ambiguous problems. Prioritize & scope both external & internal facing tools & frameworks - spanning back-end, front-end, & infrastructure - balancing immediate growth needs with a long-term strategy of sustainability, usability, & security.
Recruited a Product Designer in 2017 to integrate mockups as a core component of SaRA’s product lifecycle. Developed detailed implementation plans spanning data design, back-end logic, front-end UI, & deployment after finalizing mockups, eliminating the need for resource-intensive code rewrites.
After managing 20+ interns & contractors, hired SaRA’s first full-time front-end developer in April 2024.
As the first & only full stack developer to found this Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) services company, built - from scratch - its extensible HIPAA-compliant platform. Designed & implemented 45+ core product features, quickly mastering & integrating new cloud, web, database, pipeline, & API technologies to create a reliable, scalable, & high performance system for providers, clients, & developers.
Latest core feature: Leveraged Terraform (Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool) to enable rapid deployments, minimize downtime to minutes, & ensure consistent configurations across all environments.
Platform Development
Align SaRA’s product strategy with company goals and vision
Rapidly learned other coding languages and frameworks as needed to develop and iterate from MVP, to Alpha, to Beta, to first production state V1.
Establish and execute SaRA’s technical foundation and roadmap encompassing platform architecture, product design, infrastructure development, feature implementation, and staff management.
Lead the development of all version releases: quickly learned and implemented cloud computing, web framework, database storage, CI/CD pipeline technologies, and third party API integration
Hire and manage all software engineers; directed 20+ previous team members (interns and contractors)
Research and integrate hosting and data encryption policies and procedures to comply with HIPAA
Ensure high availability by leveraging cloud platform features and writing system status tests
Resolve 50+ user requests and issues through rapid feature development, bug fixes, and customer interaction
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
One of 10 engineers who design, build, deploy, and maintain the infrastructure used daily by 30 teams
System routes 15M calls/day for 250+ versioned, replicated microservices running on 1000+ nodes
Serve as the team expert in containerized deployment (Kubernetes) and UX/UI design (React)
Owner of two products: a microservice catalog and an API reference interface
Sole support rep for 25% of the team’s user-facing tools
Projects
On-Demand & Scheduled Data Reports
Collaborated with a Bangalore-based platform team to automate the generation and batch delivery of downloadable user-created data visualizations (csv format)
Originally assigned one component and quickly stepped up to complete the entire backend: file system (Alluxio), front end (AngularJS), database (MongoDB), and runtime (NodeJS)
Cloud-Agnostic Microservice Migration
Designed and implemented a resource-saving Proof of Concept (POC): transfer a Spring Boot microservice from an internal proprietary cloud environment to an open-source container architecture (Kubernetes)
Learned Kubernetes in one month to design the telemetry of the shared global cluster
Wrote the project’s technical spec with code examples to explain how to configure scale and resilience
Partnered with two managers to define the project’s benefits (reduced cost and maintenance burden on our team) and next stage (automate the migration of 100s of microservices by auto-generating wrapper files)
Front End Data API End-to-End Testing Framework (Cypress-based)
Added local development environment and CI/CD pipeline validation checks to ensure that the microservice catalog UI correctly displays microservice information
Education
UCLA
Master of Science - MS
University of California, Riverside