Backend Software Engineer specializing in scalable systems, production APIs, and revenue-critical infrastructure.
Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
New York City Metropolitan Area
• Serve as one of two backend engineers solely responsible for Dolly API a $10M ARR acquisition owning Python and Node.js services, 3rd party integrations, and production reliability end to end.
• Designed and implemented a 3rd party routing and batching service across Python and Dolly API, significantly reducing API call volume and infrastructure costs at scale.
• Designed and deployed REST APIs with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB, powering delivery scheduling, partner operations, and customer workflows for thousands of daily users.
• Migrated legacy JavaScript services to modular TypeScript backends, reducing runtime errors by 30% and improving deployment velocity across multiple services.
• Built real-time job tracking and multi-delivery batching systems, integrating AI engines to optimize routing and reduce average delivery time by 15%.
• Resolved critical billing and pricing edge cases through backend fixes and server-side validations, safeguarding revenue accuracy and financial integrity.
• Implemented automated monitoring, logging, and alerting pipelines, reducing on-call incident resolution time by 25%.
• Mentored junior engineers and conducted code reviews to ensure maintainable, testable, and performant backend services.
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
• Developed responsive UIs with TypeScript, React.js, Redux.js, HTML5, and CSS, enhancing user experience scores by 30% and reducing state management errors by 20%.
• Implemented a customizable teaching materials feature using React, REST, and NodeJS, boosting teacher satisfaction scores by 25%.
• Led the redesign of dashboard navigation, improving user navigation efficiency by 40%.
• Mentored junior engineers and participated in design reviews to establish code quality standards.
2019 — 2023
2019 — 2023
San Francisco Bay Area
• Developed a fast in-app search feature by integrating frontend components with backend APIs, reducing search time by 50% and improving customer experience.
• Revamped the customer dashboard using Angular and React, while collaborating on backend services to deliver a unified platform experience that increased engagement by 30%.
• Built and maintained a secure link-sharing system with server-side validation and API integration, boosting user adoption and collaboration by 30%.
• Globalized and internationalized the application by coordinating frontend changes with backend localization services, enabling launch in Europe across four languages.
• Mentored Quality Engineers transitioning into Software Engineering, creating a training curriculum with pair programming, code reviews, and intro-to-APIs sessions that improved team productivity by 25% and supported four successful role transitions.
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
• Acted as subject-matter expert across multiple domains, increasing automation test coverage from 10% to 90% for customer dashboards and account management.
• Designed, documented, and implemented test plans, improving test coverage by 50% and reducing production defects by 40%, which significantly enhanced software quality.
• Identified, troubleshot, and resolved defects by collaborating with engineers and support teams, leveraging Chrome DevTools and log analysis to cut average resolution time by 30% and improve customer satisfaction on a SaaS platform.
Education
California State University - East Bay
Bachelor's degree
2014 — 2016
San Jose City College
Associate's degree
2012 — 2014