Capitalize (capitalize.co, no longer maintained), Lead Engineer

• Built the full-stack web product from scratch: a shared backend API for both the web and native mobile app, a landing page, an onboarding flow for founders to set up their raise and a dashboard to manage it

• Managed a team of 3 engineers from founding through the entire lifecycle to complete project by set deadlines

• Processed $5+ million in investment volume across multiple Y Combinator batches

Real-Time Investment Feed (wefunder.com/explore/investments)

• Engineered a real time investment feed to display all recent investments made on Wefunder’s platform as an additional page on the explore view of the website which gets ~500k unique visitors each month

• Used reading and writing to a Redis list to maintain order of recent investments, as well as a Redis hash to serialize relevant investment information to satisfy the requirement of fast load-time

Interactive Map for Discovering Companies (wefunder.com/explore/map)

• Built a map to display the locations of currently fundraising companies using the Mapbox API

• Engineered the project end-to-end and acted as a product manager by reaching out to relevant stakeholders to figure out which features should be included

• Integrated internal data with the map to produce informative interactive states on each of the company markers

• Added an alternative way for potential investors to browse through companies on the explore page which gets ~500k unique visitors each month

Statistics Page for Fundraising Founders

• Created an internal dashboard for founders displaying their current fundraise statistics, including: volume of investments over time, breakdown of investor type, status of money processing, and investor conversion rate

• Constructed informative and easily understandable graphs and charts with the Highcharts library using data harnessed from our page traffic Google Analytics data via the GA4 API

• Led 2-3 day backpacking trips and 4 hour kayak trips for grad students on the weekends and week nights in locations around California, including: Big Sur, Yosemite, Mt. Diablo, Point Reyes, San Francisco Bay

• Became a lead guide and effectively trained a new guide during an overnight backpacking trip to Angel Island

• Learned more about how to enrich a trip with tidbits of California ecology and about how to provide an engaging experience for adults