• Built Personas product which Lip Syncs and overdubs user content. Comarketed with multiple lip sync vendors.

• Rebuilt studio mobile web experience to more closely resemble native experience. Significantly boosted export and upgrade conversions

• Launched usage based billing an internal tools for enterprise plan

• Built tess.design, a new platform for properly licensed AI image editing

Platform Team:

• Defined metrics for tracking frontend performance over time. Led team to introduce new telemetry. Frontend performance is 99% since I started at Kapwing

Gen AI/Dubbing Team:

• Personally delivered Kapwing's first suite of AI (GPT3.5/4) enabled tools (video generator, script generator, meme generator, document to video, image generator)

• Led team to continue owning the quality of AI tools and launch new experiences like auto b-roll

• Launched the dubbing product which used machine translation, transcription, and voice cloning.

Frontend performance and playback for the Kapwing editor. This role involves deep knowledge of HTMLMediaElements as well as precise usage of profiling tools to optimize the web app performance.

• Owned development of proprietary playback system.

• Experimented with webcodecs and mp4box to render content

• Increased reliability of automated Cypress and Jest suite. Began blocking PR merges based on test status.

• Created an android PWA app and launched it.

• Developed plugins which allow creators to interact with third party applications from within the Kapwing editor

• Improved technical SEO: auto-generating sitemaps, migrated to next.js (improve lighthouse scores from ~25 to ~99), fixed response codes on 404 pages

• Created Text to Video Generator using GANs

• Delivered complete redesign of the studio product

Tech stack is React, Redux, Typescript, SASS/SCSS, and Express. Other things it's involved are GCP cloud functions, PUG, and API integration.

Worked at both Aurora Hills Golf Course and Saddle Rock Golf Course.