• Designed a SaaS platform to modernize NYC's volunteer organizations, focusing on accessibility for all users.

• Collaborated with the Manhattan Land Trust to conduct research on operational challenges and engagement barriers.

• Tripled membership for a pilot garden by optimizing recruitment and retention processes.

• Developed tools for membership tracking, volunteer logging, receipt accounting, and organized meetings.

• Ensured accessibility by providing both electronic and paper-based processes.

• Faced sustainability challenges due to limited budgets and extensive support needs of volunteer organizations.

• Developed a GUI from scratch for configuring the Element Server Suite, using Kubernetes CRDs and OpenAPI schemas.

• Created a dynamic configuration framework enabling runtime schema fetching and UI rendering.

• Enhanced security with options referencing Kubernetes secrets for secure storage separate from plain-text configuration.

• Facilitated cross-team collaboration by allowing schema updates without UI code changes.

• Contributed to the LTS product version, improving stability for enterprise clients.

• Early team member hired to help maintain Next.js; among the first 20 employees at Vercel.

• Collaborated with the Google Chrome team to advance web technologies, specifically intelligent dependency chunking.

• Enhanced Next.js on Vercel by pioneering dynamic filesystem routes and distributed routing configurations.

• Led the Proxy team, managing the reverse proxy deployed across 16 global regions supported by the infrastructure team.

• Maintained global HTTP servers, handling over 100 billion requests monthy (~40,000 req/s) and mitigating DDoS attacks.

• Developed the proprietary router used by Next.js and other frameworks on Vercel; helped specify the Build Output API.

• Co-authored multiple Next.js releases (versions 8–12), contributing to server-side implementations and specifications.

• Led security initiatives: CSP support, secure cookies, HSTS preloading, public suffix list, and cross-origin SSO protection.

• Implemented Edge Middleware and Edge Functions, enabling response streaming and programmatic routing at the edge.

• Worked with the AWS Lambda team to specify response streaming for the eventual use of React Server Components.

• Optimized TLS configurations, enabled regional TLS session resumption, TLS 1.3, and zero-roundtrip handshakes.

• Presented at hackathons in New York, Toronto, and D.C., conducting workshops on Next.js for aspiring developers.

I created an authenticity platform hosted on the cloud. The database was specifically designed to be audit-able and immutable. Data was validated through a reasonable chain of trust that allowed for both paper and online processing. At any point in time an audit could be run that would validate all the data for a specific serial number.