Engineer who takes projects over the finish line. Lead Developer for Coder's official plugin in Spotify Backstage. Main developer for rebooting the Coder Registry into an open-source ecosystem (3x contributions and +15M downloads in 2025).
Experience
2023 — Now
Austin, Texas, United States
• Served as Lead Developer for Coder’s client SDK in Spotify’s Backstage platform, unlocking sales for over ten Fortune 500 companies, and driving a ~20% increase in marketing seminar attendance in H1 2024.
• Led the reboot of the Coder Registry, turning a mostly internal tool into an open-source ecosystem for publishing plugins, tripling user contributions and boosting total plugin downloads by 15 million in 2025.
• Co-led rewrite for the Coder Registry Terraform Server, delivering full rewrite for critical infrastructure in two months. Improved server availability from ~93% in late 2024 to +99.99% in all of 2025.
• Reviewed résumés, graded take-homes, and interviewed 60+ mid-level and senior engineers over 20 months; was unanimously nominated to design rubrics and code challenges for first-ever staff-level frontend engineers.
• Acted as Code Owner for flagship product’s frontend, guiding open-source contributors and four global teams on UI engineering best practices. Reduced turnaround time for frontend PRs by ~2 days in Q3 2025.
• Rewrote data-fetching layer into dependency-injectable UI client, cutting test flakes in half though improved state isolation, and streamlining the API vendoring process for Backstage and Coder’s VSCode plugin.
• Owned implementations and test suites for state management in the flagship frontend, designing well-tested, type-safe tools for WebSocket message parsing, pagination prefetching, and Go-to-TypeScript SSR hydration.
• Provided consulting to design team and brand agencies for UI mockups for dashboards and marketing sites; stopped 40+ mobile UI edge cases and WCAG Level AA violations from reaching the implementation stage.
• Mentored and oversaw Coder’s first intern, ensuring all feature work was completed on time in Q3 2025.
2022 — 2022
2022 — 2022
New York, New York, United States
• Migrated critical files in ed tech platform to TypeScript, delivering updates two months ahead of schedule.
• Designed new state management strategies in the React codebase, allowing components to opt into mutation-based UI updates decoupled from React’s render cycles, boosting average performance by over 40%.
• Wrote articles and guidelines for TypeScript best practices as part of codebase migration. Provided concrete examples of how to avoid unsafe behaviors and maximize V8 engine performance.
• Wrote technical articles for junior developers, covering topics like environment setup and the key concepts around request caching.
2020 — 2022
Rockville, Maryland, United States
• Built BigQuery pipelines for product catalogs. Automated four-hour cleaning processes for datasets with 100k+ items into reproducible, two-second tasks, while reducing missing data fields by 45% for accurate reporting.
• Rewrote legacy scripts into Google Apps Script, increasing the performance for fuzzy matching, data querying, and automated reporting by +400%, and improving integrations with in-house JavaScript tooling.
• Worked on a broker management tool in Angular, creating various components for the in-house design system, and wrote algorithms for modeling rapidly-changing broker relationships.
• Codified formal guidelines for doing code reviews, raising average ZenDesk SLA ticket compliance by 28%.
2018 — 2020
Waldorf, MD
• Created Python scripts for generating low-stock inventory reports, slashing overstock and out-of-stock counts for the department by an average of 5% per period.
• Created a UI for cross-referencing shelf tags against inventory backstock to identify which items could be stocked out, speeding up the process for replacing inventory by an average of 2 employee hours per day.
• Performed inventory audits to reconcile backstock against database inventory counts, addressing variances in inventory value by a minimum of $10,000 per audit.
Accomplishments
• Most profitable wellness department in the company in 2019.
• Most profitable store in the company in 2019.
Education
University of Maryland Baltimore County