Joined Bitbrand to build a marketplace for digital luxury goods. Responsible for:

• Developing web apps and APIs using Next.js, GraphQL, and AWS Lambda

• Provisioning data storage using AWS RDS Postgres databases and S3 buckets

• Automating multi-environment deployments using Seed CI/CD pipeline

• Integrating with EVM blockchains and smart contracts using Hardhat and ethers.js

• Supporting mobile app developers working in iOS and watchOS environments

Joined Karat as the first Software Engineer shortly after Seed stage funding round. Helped build the core Karat Card product from the ground up. Responsible for developing and orchestrating the services that powered the underwriting, repayments, and rewards systems.

• Built a scalable auto-pay processing system that handles over $10 million per month in user repayments

• Implemented OAuth authentication and authorization for our internal and external APIs

• Integrated bank connection services (e.g. Plaid) to enable dynamic underwriting and real-time financial metrics for thousands of users

• Worked cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Data teams to reduce user friction and improve user experience using data-driven insights

• Developed an internal CMS for managing our user-facing Card Rewards storefront and catalog

Led initiatives to improve software development processes to ship more features, faster. Responsible for reducing "time-to-production" to enable more frequent releases and faster feedback loops.

• Reduced the compile time of our Apollo GraphQL server by 90% (40s to 4s) by researching and integrating SWC into our Webpack bundle step

• Reduced the deployment time of all apps and microservices by ~25% by integrating Yarn caching into our CI/CD pipelines

• Reduced the deployment time of Next.js apps by a further ~20% by integrating Next.js build caching into our CI/CD pipelines

• Significantly improved local and CI build times by researching, evaluating, and integrating Turborepo remote caching into our monorepo

• Reduced pre-commit hook runtime by ~88% (90s to 8-10s) by optimizing concurrent linting operations on staged changes to monorepo packages

Responsible for providing structure, guidance, and support to product engineering teams at Lambda X, a continuing education course at Lambda School.

• Led whiteboarding exercises and Peer Interview practice sessions to help team members sharpen their technical skills and prepare for technical interviews

• Provided guidance and conflict resolution for team members

• Gave weekly reports to Section Leads and Student Success Coordinators