Experience
2025 — Now
2022 — 2024
2022 — 2024
San Francisco, California, United States
* Implemented event bus reporting library for client side analytics
* End to end implementation of toolchain to product statically built/server-side-rendered web assets, delivering a performance boost of up to 80%
* Led planning and migration of Grove's Nuxt 2 web app to Nuxt 3; umd to esm; js to ts
* Refactored critical service worker with the addition of an end to end testing layer
* Overhauled staging processes to reflect cross-repo builds
2021 — 2022
2018 — 2021
2018 — 2021
Software Engineer, Web App Team | April 2020 - February 2021
● Implemented and shipped key UI features in React and Redux for a new web collaboration / project management product.
● Established product and performance client-side logging for
said product.
● Led discussions around testing; developed an automated
testing policy for the team which was later adopted by QA for
the broader organization.
● Served as the team’s DRI on cross-team bug bashes and
developed comprehensive manual test suites.
Software Engineer, Desktop App Team | June 2019 – April 2020
● As frontend engineering DRI, led planning, technical design and milestone delivery for a tasks prototype in the Dropbox app. This experiment was instrumental in informing product strategy for the new collaboration and project management product.
● Implemented and shipped features in React and Redux exposing file and collaboration metadata to increase user awareness of collaboration.
● Audited and revamped outdated error handling in a major overhaul of user messaging in the desktop app.
● Served as tech lead oncall during and after production incidents; mitigated incidents in delicate cherry-picking procedures.
● Served as mentor and speaker for the Ignite apprenticeship program as a former apprentice.
Software Engineer, Databases Team | April 2018 – June 2019
● Automated graceful database splits for the team’s 1000+ database instances, based on capacity metrics
● Developed advanced CI/CD tooling for the team using Dropbox’s new pipelines deployment service in a pioneering project, driving early adoption and setting example for advanced usage.
● Assisted implementation of the next generation of the binlog backup service.
● Served as tech lead on call for various critical incidents, recovering binlogs for specific shards on multiple occasions.
2017 — 2018
I elected to pursue independent study at Holberton School by building a proof of concept web app for viewing, sharing and hosting web comics. Stack: Nginx, Uwsgi, Graphene-Django, React, Apollo, Redux, Relay, Docker Swarm, EC2 and Postgres hosted on RDS.
Education
Holberton School
2015 — 2017
Scripps College
Sociology
2011 — 2015
Scripps College
Sociology
2011 — 2015
CSU Dominguez Hills
Modesto Junior College