✷ As a passionate full-stack software engineer, I committed to contributing to the open-source community by utilizing my expertise in technologies such as JavaScript, React, Node/Express, TypeScript, and SQL/NoSQL database.
2023 — 2025
Developed and maintained core features of the Social Media Manager, including Campaign Planner, Scheduling Calendar, and Social Media Connections.
Engineered end-to-end integrations with Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn APIs, implementing content publishing workflows, metrics retrieval systems, and secure OAuth authentication processes to streamline user social media management.
Customized and extended the Lexical Editor to enhance post creation workflows by implementing advanced toolbar features, formatting nodes, and refining editor behavior for improved user experience.
Refactored and optimized frontend architecture to improve scalability and maintainability, reducing load times and enhancing overall performance.
Designed and developed RESTful APIs supporting frontend features, focusing on campaign management, OAuth workflows, and post scheduling.
Improved backend database performance by optimizing schemas and indexes, supporting high-traffic queries with reduced latency.
Integrated third-party services including AWS S3 for secure file storage and email systems for user notifications, enhancing overall system reliability.
Refined backend data models to support the addition of expert profiles, private templates, and multi-account management, ensuring scalability and data integrity across expanding feature sets.
Collaborated with the development team to design, implement, and rigorously test innovative features, greatly boosting the product's functionality and performance for over 100 users using React, Node, Express, and Mongoose.
Revamped task system by redesigning task component hierarchy from linear structure to recursively nested structure, optimized its logic from legacy DOM manipulation to React state-driven implementation, significantly improving the visual clarity of the user interface and enhancing response time of task operation.
Improved the backend API and data structure of the task system to align seamlessly with the redesigned frontend, leading to a more streamlined, efficient, and user-friendly frontend experience.
Refactored the application timer by converting timing system from RESTful API handling to WebSocket messaging, ensured smooth communication and timely feedback between the backend and frontend.
Implemented Redux store restructuring to address issues with state persistence across tabs, employing a mix of browser storage approaches for displaying user-specific data.
Analyzed and refined existing codebase proactively to enhance application quality, while actively seeking out and addressing performance and stability issues to improve overall system functionality.
Addressed and resolved software bugs swiftly and efficiently upon assignment, created and merged over 60 pull requests and became the go-to person for emergency “hotfixes” and other time-sensitive help.
2022 — 2023
Reactype is a Node.js and Electron-packaged and deployed tool that allows developers to quickly prototype React applications that are compatible with the Gatsby.js and Next.js frameworks.
Leveraged TypeScript’s type annotation to facilitate efficient error-checking and ensure code maintainability of React components and other functions to safeguard consistency of data on a large and modularized codebase.
Employed React DnD (Drag and Drop) library to allow users to build dynamic React components in an interactive and user-friendly interface, improving the user experience by enabling quick workflow and great flexibility.
Combined useReducer and useContext hooks to manage the state of canvas components over complex structures, simplify state management, and improve data flow to nested child components without the need for prop drilling.
Employed D3 library to develop a visual representation of the user’s component hierarchy tree, utilizing its ability to seamlessly bind data to visual elements, resulting in real-time updates to reflect any changes made by the user.
Integrated React Testing Library alongside Jest to create a testing suite which validated our modifications to the codebase, improved the stability of the application, and resulted in higher developer efficiency.
Pinpointed and refactored partial logic that caused functionalities to fail, including conditional malfunction of drag and drop and untimely rendering of code preview, reducing the technical debt accumulated over 13 prior versions.
Utilized Material UI framework to enforce uniform styling and facilitate a dynamically responsive user interface, expediting overall development of the application’s UI/UX.
ReacType is an open-source product maintained by the tech accelerator, OSLabs (opensourcelabs.io).
Incorporated React Router to enable client-side routing in a single page application, facilitating the creation of interactive and adaptable user interfaces, resulting in faster page rendering and enhanced user experience.
Utilized Express’s lightweight framework and powerful routing system for a myriad of endpoints to create a RESTful server, which efficiently handled and communicated with the client-side application to resolve various HTTP requests.
Implemented conditional rendering to selectively display content based on user interaction, allowing for a dynamic and adaptable user interface, improving performance by reducing unnecessary re-renders.
Designed a SQL database that stores user and website information for individual users and utilized bcrypt library for password hashing, implementing rigorous measures and ensuring ACID compliance throughout the system.
Utilized webpack to simplify the integration of static assets and multiple techniques into the application, and to enhance the developer experience by enabling hot module reloading and automatic code minification/uglification during the build process.
Education
2015 — 2022
Texas A&M University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
2015 — 2022