• Operated Aleo validator infrastructure managing $10M+ TVL with 99%+ uptime, serving 300K+ users

• Contributed to tRPC + MongoDB backend routes and services, strengthening core infrastructure and enabling new user workflows

• Wrote a Rust-based load balancer and contributed to a chain indexer to improve reliability and performance of validator and client node operations

• Managed Google Cloud infrastructure for validator/client nodes, ensuring 99+% uptime and scalability of distributed systems

• Deployed full observability pipeline with Prometheus + Grafana, integrated with Slack/on-call tooling for real-time alerts and metrics

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• Rearchitected recommendation algorithms to precompute data improving cache hit rate and resulting in double digit improvements in performance latency for slowest 95th percentile performing recommendations

• Designed, developed, and tested new recommendation algorithms and RESTful apis spanning both the front-end (React) and back-end (Python, MySQL) to personalize ecommerce experiences for top tier clients reaching millions of e-commerce customers

• Led all sprint rituals including standups, refinements, and retrospectives collaborating with engineering, product, and design

• Collaborated cross-functionally with engineering, product, support, and customer success to help close and provide support for multi-million dollar deals and helped onboard and mentor new engineers

• Created, designed, and developed a wearable live-streaming camera using a Raspberry Pi, Python and OpenCV

• Successfully negotiated 2 letters of intents with two of the largest streaming providers in billiards and chess totaling $8,000+ in value

• Completed 30+ interviews with potential users and customers and incorporated feedback into product development

• Successfully raised initial capital from a Chicago venture capital fund

• Increased conversion rates by 2-3% using monthly customer and business reports developed in Python and R based on incoming data from google analytics, fb analytics, and google adwords

• Built, designed, and developed profitable ecommerce store using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript achieving ~ 30% gross margins

• Negotiated, developed, and managed 3 partnership deals with suppliers to fulfill product orders and meet customers’ needs at all times of the day, 7 days a week

• Created successful direct to consumer marketing campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, and Google ad platforms achieving conversion rates as high as 10%

• Assisted in building financial models with 3-year projections of several publicly traded companies in the automobile, pharmaceutical, and retail industries and shared findings with the hedge fund manager

• Conducted and shared bottom-up research on several publicly traded companies by carefully reading through SEC filings and reaching out to investor relations and management for further inquiries and information

• Discussed valuations and company strategy in buy-side IPO roadshow meeting featuring company management and over 50 money managers