Helping design and build intuitive AI-powered travel experiences through Penny, Priceline’s virtual travel assistant. Collaborating closely with product, design, and ML teams to bring generative AI into the booking journey in ways that are fast, human-centered, and helpful.

• Building scalable, performant UIs using React, TypeScript, and modern web standards

• Working on streaming interfaces, agentic workflows, and natural language interactions

• Focused on improving discovery, decision-making, and trust in AI-driven travel tools

• Helping establish best practices for AI UX patterns and frontend architecture

• Leading frontend architecture, design and development for critical government software.

• Lead developer for dds sites and applications

• Developing innovative customer-centric features using React, TS, SaSS for AWS Athena and AWS EMR consoles

• collaborate with PMs on business requirements

• discuss user flows and technical requirements with UX designers

• conduct Spike analyses and create proof of concepts

• write technical design documents

• communicate with security engineers during application security reviews and penetration testing

• implement feature flagging logic and analytic tools for timed feature launches and customer usage tracking

• collaborate with SDEs to coordinate RESTful API requirements for the UI needs

• correspond with all stakeholders, update project plans and status updates for leadership

• collaborate with tech writers on public/private documentation

• Communicate directly with customers to resolve blocking issues/pain points

• Work across teams and services to bring integrative experience for customers that can improve performance, increase capabilities, and reduce cost

• Worked across teams to design front-end architecture of Trip Protection product that generated 20% company revenue with ~90% growth Y/Y

• End-to-end development of Rental Car Platform UI using modern React (context, hooks), Redux, and GraphQL

• Weekly deployments on CI/CD pipeline with gate checks on New Relic, application build on Bamboo and GitHub Actions, and canary via GKE and Harness

• Practiced A/B testing using internal feature flagging and analytics system and integrated Launch Darkly feature toggling for white-labeling

• Upgraded main application to ApolloClient v3 to support Automatic Persisted queries for performance enhancements

Contributions:

• Refactoring React class components to functional components w. documentation

• Contributed to TypeScript migration w. documentation

• Mentored 50+ students in full stack JavaScript (React, Redux, Node, Express, PostgreSQL)

• Served as product manager for student projects leading Agile workflow

• Led daily stand-ups and weekly code reviews, implemented ticketing system (Waffle.io, Trello), and consulted on application design and implementation

• Conducted over 20 technical interviews for prospective candidates