Experience
2024 — 2025
Portland, Oregon, United States
• Delivered production features across SalesHub’s full stack (React/Vite, Node.js/Express, PostgreSQL, AWS), improving asset management, category organization, and real-time user workflows for customers
• Modernized frontend and backend codebases: replaced legacy JavaScript with TypeScript, refactored shared utilities, and led sweeping efforts to upgrade tech stack with an aim towards lowering technical debt
• Designed and implemented AI-driven enrichment pipelines, including a PDF metadata extraction service and a video/audio captioning + audio description generator, integrating OpenAI, Gemini, and Claude models to be used with SalesHub ingestion flows
• Shaped early adoption of LLM-enhanced features by producing reusable prototypes, documenting best practices, and assisting peers on prompt engineering and AI workflows
• Collaborated closely with product managers, designers, and cross-functional engineers to balance delivery speed with long-term scalability and maintainability
2023 — 2024
Portland, Oregon, United States
• Worked on Hinge Health React Native mobile application developing new screens and improving existing user interfaces used for customers and debugging purposes.
• Added features and made improvements to the React-based admin UI (using Material UI) with a microfrontend pattern.
• Utilized backend-for-frontend (BFF) pattern to transform endpoints into GraphQL calls, originating from Nest.js servers with Fastify and TypeORM.
• Added new endpoints to both major APIs and BFFs, enhancing functionality and user experience.
• Developed new React components, including a custom filtering component for data tables, augmenting Material UI components.
• Investigated and optimized slow PostgreSQL database calls, using normal and compound indexes to improve performance by sometimes many hundreds of times.
• Led the onboarding of new customer connections, ensuring data was transformed correctly for database integration, and managed the intake process alongside departments like marketing.
• Collaborated with and mentored junior engineers, solving problems and supporting the growth of the company.
• Participated in a company hackathon, leading the development of an Apple Health integration feature for the React Native mobile application, which won the top audience vote.
2022 — 2023
San Francisco, California, United States
• Developed and innovated on a full-stack TypeScript application, employing React for frontend and Express for backend, with MongoDB as the database
• Enhanced user experience by creating intuitive UI elements and optimizing page load performance
• Implemented robust API endpoints, improving data communication and functionality of the application
• Transitioned to modern request parsers to ensure system reliability and performance
• Developed advanced product management tools, enabling efficient searching, filtering, and bulk assignment of products
• Streamlined the code organization for improved maintainability, including migrating UI code and optimizing API calls
• Led efforts in troubleshooting and resolving various system performance issues and bugs
• Ensured transparent operations by implementing features to view total sales and wallet totals
• Contributed to continuous system improvement through various UI enhancements and bug fixes
2022 — 2022
New York, New York, United States
• Took the lead in active development of React Native mobile banking application for iOS and Android
• Handled application deployment and communications with Apple App Store and Google Play Store
• Created new screens, components, and software features for mobile application
• Developed new backend server functionality with Ruby leveraging GraphQL using the Ruby on Rails framework
• Handled transition of Clojure server backend routes to Ruby on Rails equivalents
2021 — 2022
2021 — 2022
New York, New York, United States
• Created new components and pages with React.js for greenfield financial technology project
• Spearheaded transition and reorganization of existing fintech codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript
• Implemented new backend server functionality with Python using the Django Rest Framework
• Experience working with API and state management for both the Synapse and Unit banking platforms
Education
Oregon State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
2014 — 2017
Lane Community College
Associate of Arts
2012 — 2015