Founder of ALTERA Studios, a visual media company creating high-quality photo, video, and content assets for startups, small businesses, and artists.

Run client acquisition, creative direction, production, editing, delivery, and business operations end to end. Grew the studio to strong recurring monthly revenue while building a repeat-client base across brand, product, and social media work.

Core Engineering, Media Delivery Platform. Building performance-critical systems across networking, storage, diagnostics, and app infrastructure for Snapchat’s iOS app, serving 800M+ users.

• Built a real-time network quality prediction system for Snapchat, improving latency estimation accuracy by 71% and reducing p90 prediction error from +28ms to +9ms.

• Shipped a storage cleanup system to 8.2M+ iOS users, reducing app storage usage by 26% at p90 and saving up to 5.7 GB per device.

• Drove a 1.3-2.4% crash-rate reduction, +0.10% lift in daily app opens, and +0.34% lift in ad clicks, all statistically significant at p < 0.01.

• Built automated storage diagnostics that surfaced a 97 GB data accumulation bug and fixed a crash affecting devices with 170+ GB of cached data.

• Migrated iOS network monitoring infrastructure for 15.2M+ users, correcting a 3-4% cellular vs. WiFi traffic attribution error impacting downstream analytics and ad targeting.

• Improved app launch performance by 5.3% and increased ad engagement by 5% through a phased rollout from dogfood to full production.

Platform Team intern working on high-impact Objective-C projects across Snapchat’s client infrastructure and native app experience.

• Contributed to Snapchat’s official native iPad app, focusing on performance and cross-device user experience.

• Helped support a launch that added 5M+ users and increased time spent in app by 12%.

• Integrated real-time page metrics to give developers actionable visibility into user journeys and feature performance.

Built internal tooling to improve machine leasing workflows for 2,000+ employees across NVIDIA.

• Led development of a new feature to optimize the machine leasing process and reduce operational friction.

• Used an algorithmic approach to reduce average lease usage time by 20% and decrease equipment downtime by 15%.

• Built frontend interfaces for real-time machine availability and streamlined lease creation.

• Partnered with business and operations teams to gather requirements, ship improvements, and iterate from user feedback.

Worked on NVIDIA’s Cloud Infrastructure Team, improving deployment workflows and Web UI runtime capabilities for cloud services.

• Developed a method to improve runtime capabilities for production Web UI deployments and integrate it into the deployment pipeline.

• Used Dockerfiles and React-based tooling to automatically generate web pages, reducing Web UI pipeline load time by 70%.

• Debugged and shipped fixes for cloud service tooling used by 50+ software engineers.