After my internship, I joined Paypal as a full time engineer as part of the Checkout team where I built features for millions of users. I then went on to join the Fastlane SDK team near its inception and have become a foundational member of this flagship product.

• Foundational member of PayPal’s flagship Fastlane team, contributing across multiple versions and playing a key role in the GA launch of one of PayPal’s core checkout products.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams to design and build scalable, resilient solutions aligned with both technical and product goals.

• Proactively identify and solve architectural challenges with minimal oversight, iteratively design systems from scratch with cross product collaboration.

• Design and build core Fastlane feature for seamless modal transitions, including concept and API design.

• Build accessible UI components from the ground up, helping shape the Fastlane component library with reusable patterns and industry standard accessibility features.

• Develop the content delivery pipeline alongside translation teams to deliver localized content via CDN and designing the APIs used by engineers to fetch and render it.

• Implemented SDK-wide state management system across multiple packages in a monorepo setup, enhancing modularity and scalability.

• Revitalize developer tooling by introducing TurboRepo and modernizing CI/test tooling to support multi-package workflows, significantly improving build reliability and developer experience.

• Implement EU-mandated 3D Secure (3DS) protocols across several PayPal checkout flows, serving as the primary frontend engineer on multiple key integrations.

• Contribute across the stack—from UI and state to content delivery, CI, and testing—acting as a highly adaptable technical generalist with deep product context.

• Mentor new team members and interns, serving as a trusted technical resource and helping foster a culture of growth and collaboration.

As part of the Year Up program, I joined PayPal's merchant app team as a mobile development intern. My first project was to build an internal company tool, and after that I began working on the production server for the PayPal Business app. Because of my strong understanding of Javascript, I worked closely with the Node.js server that the merchant app team owns and became a go-to team member for server related work.

• Designed and implemented API for a production Node.js server, enabling the PayPal Business app to communicate with the company ecosystem and allowing our mobile developers to focus on feature development

• Rewrote a production API with ES6 syntax, adding protobuf models to support smaller payload sizes and improve responsiveness for PayPal Business app users

• Created an internal web app using Node.js, Express, Bootstrap, and MongoDB that allows teams to track service deployments and identify potentially breaking changes to the services they depend on

• Deployed app with continuous integration using Jenkins, Nginx, and Google Cloud Platform to enable safe, automatic testing and deployment of code changes to production, enabling faster and more reliable workflows for the merchant app team

• Contributed additional functionality to an internal tool by collaborating with code owners, providing the ability to generate mock data in the staging environment and allowing users to create accurate functional tests with ease

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