Software Engineer
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2026 — Now
2024 — 2026
Utah, United States
• Squashed 400+ bugs, more than anyone else in the company during my time.
• Sped up load time 3x on average and 10x for the slowest pages by rewriting core MySQL queries.
• Mentored team of 9 other engineers, improving code quality and output by introducing best practices and performing thorough code reviews.
2023 — 2023
San Francisco Bay Area
• Reduced DynamoDB costs by over $100,000/month using Flink and Kafka to batch writes.
• Implemented retry logic into internal service clients in order to reduce failure rates by 99%.
2022 — 2022
• Built ownership transfer features using Angular and Scala that saved 300 hours of work
• Optimized existing TypeScript to reduce webpage load time by 93%
2021 — 2022
Provo, Utah, United States
• Taught courses on Python, Java, Javascript, Algorithms, Web Development
Brigham Young University