San Francisco, California, United States
Full-stack engineer working on user onboarding, registration, authentication, and verification systems. Collaborated with product, design, and data teams to ship features impacting millions of users.
Key Projects & Accomplishments:
User-Facing Features
• Integrated Google One Tap authentication across login and registration, simplifying the sign-up experience
• Led "Returning Neighbor Journey" initiative, building personalized onboarding flows for users rejoining the platform
• Redesigned verification UI and refactored backend verification logic in Golang, integrating third-party verification APIs
• Conducted login optimization experiments including device fingerprinting and auto-login capabilities
Backend Systems & APIs
• Built backend-driven onboarding system allowing product teams to configure user flows with less code deployments, accelerating experimentation
• Optimized verification system by moving non-critical checks to asynchronous processing, reducing latency and infrastructure costs
• Refactored registration flow to use shared context architecture, improving code maintainability across authentication systems
Compliance & Data
• Implemented age-gating solution with configurable date-of-birth validation and automated account suspension scripts to meet regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions
• Built bulk verification script that retroactively verified thousands of inactive users, established as daily recurring job
• Built automated batch processing jobs extending existing data pipeline infrastructure to handle daily user registration data for verification and email workflows
Cross-Functional Work
• Served as domain expert for verification microservice, coordinating with multiple teams on integrations
• Authored technical documentation for onboarding and verification systems
• Participated in on-call rotation, triaging production incidents
Technologies: Golang, Python (Django), TypeScript, React, GraphQL, SQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Git