I write software to empower people. I'm a mission-driven full-stack engineer who thrives on turning ambitious goals into high-quality, impactful products. For me, engineering is a team sport.

Experience

2026 — NowCartesianSoftware Engineer

2026 — Now

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

2021 — 2025BetterLessonSoftware Engineer II

2021 — 2025

Cambridge, MA

Role: Full-stack engineer on a small, high-impact EdTech team serving thousands of educators; led technical initiatives, infrastructure modernization, and key replatforming projects.

Technical Leadership:

▫ Self-Assessment System: Designed data models, RESTful APIs, and webhook sync patterns; delivered end-to-end with 99%+ uptime.

▫ Zoom Webinar Integration: Led from scope analysis to delivery; unlocked a new enterprise revenue stream.

▫ SSO Migration: Co-led zero-downtime cutover to OIDC JWT using feature flags and a safe user migration strategy.

▫ Database Migration: Co-led move to PostgreSQL; owned application changes, upgraded Python 2.7 → 3.6, and validated 20+ critical cronjobs.

Infrastructure & Platform Modernization:

▫ AWS IAM to Terraform: Drove migration from manual console management to version-controlled, auditable IaC.

▫ DevOps Support: Maintained AWS Kubernetes (k8s) clusters, managed deployments via Helm/CircleCI, and migrated legacy cron jobs to k8s.

▫ Code Quality & Security: Introduced Spotless and CheckStyle; led Spring Boot upgrades 2.5 → 2.7 → 3.3 to reduce vulnerabilities.

Re-architecture & Major Contributions:

▫ Replatforming: Key contributor rewriting a legacy monolith into domain-driven Spring Boot microservices and modern React SPAs.

▫ Fulfillment Subdomain: Owned backend API implementation and frontend development.

▫ Frontend Architecture: Identified issues, proposed a simpler Jotai-based state management approach, and secured stakeholder approval.

▫ Integrations & Mentorship: Point of contact for third-party services; ran knowledge transfer sessions for junior engineers and new hires.

2021 — 2021BetterLessonSoftware Engineer

2021 — 2021

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

2019 — 2020RTD Civil Engineering Construction Corporation Ltd.Full Stack Developer (Remote)

2019 — 2020

Hubei, China

Work in a start-up environment to design and develop a web-based project management app using React, Ant Design, Python and Django as an internal tool to track project schedule and expenses.

Conduct integration with DingTalk to enable fast spending tracking and sorting, boosting user productivity.

Refactor authentication module with React Hooks for much easier and safer data access and increase overall security.

Craft various interactive data visualization components using Bizcharts for easy timeline and schedule tracking.

Refactor backend API and build permission control decorators, allowing fine-grain access control with less code.

Migrate existing MySQL database to PostgreSQL and configure multitenant middleware for better scalability.

Write and maintain comprehensive unit tests for back-end, compose automated testing using GitHub Actions as CI, to ensure high maintainability and testability of the project.

Deploy and manage the application to AWS using Elastic Beanstalk, S3, Route 53, CloudFront and RDS.

2017 — 2017Neuroscience of Messages Lab, Michigan State UniversityUndergraduate Research Assistant

2017 — 2017

East Lansing, Michigan

Led a team of 2 students to research, design and implement a web-based application with eye-tracking and emotion detection through webcams, to aid data collection of human brain research.

Designed and implemented front-end UI and UX using Bootstrap, Popper.js, D3.js, and WebGazer.js.

Implemented controlled video playback feature with YouTube API, and CSV upload feature with Dropbox API.

Education

University of Pittsburgh

Master of Science - MS

Michigan State University

Experience

Education

Master of Science - MS

Bachelor of Science - BS