Hello! I am a software engineer with few years of experience working in various startups, mostly on the backend.
Experience
2023 — Now
2023 — Now
Palo Alto, California, United States
• Delivered real-time expenses and profit tracking feature by leveraging existing data pipelines and optimizing cost calculation processes, reducing a 4 hour latency to seconds, empowering customers to monitor their expenses and profits in near real-time
• Created a NodeJS program that functions as a domain-specific language (DSL) for data generation and ingestion, enabling non-technical users to configure complex datasets via JSON. The DSL streamlines demo and testing workflows, supporting features like randomization, weighted probabilities, and conditional values
• Built plan catalog API, allowing customers to select templated pricing plans with predefined costs and entitlements, bypassing manual negotiations. Enabled 40% of new customer signups to be completed through an automated workflow, reducing account executive workloads and accelerating customer onboarding
• Expanded billing platform capabilities by designing and implementing new data pipeline for per-event pricing, increasing billing granularity and meeting stringent customer billing requirements
• Designed and implemented a custom logging library by providing a user-friendly logging interface and standardizing logging practices across multiple projects and services, improving system observability and developer experience while reducing debugging time
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2023
Palo Alto, California, United States
• Built and maintained Java APIs for home services (i.e. locksmiths, plumbers, etc.) marketplace feature
• Built and oversaw rollout of version 2 of messaging system with new chat service provider CometChat
• Created scripts to resolve SEV issues related to missing and out of sync job data to unblock critical functionalities for customers
• Customized and expanded platform capabilities to accommodate special customers to increase company revenue
• Ownership over sms and voice/call features with Twilio, search indexing with Algolia to support low-latency search capabilities, and server-sent events with PubNub to notify clients for updates
• Deployed releases as release manager and managed production environment as on-call engineer once a month
2021 — 2022
2021 — 2022
• Led mobile development team for social events platform Avenu, hosting weekly standup and daily scrum meetings
• Spearheaded beta launch of React Native mobile application by updating UI and integrating push notifications
• Enhanced performance of mobile application by optimizing database structure and queries, improving app latency by sixfold
• Identified inefficiencies in continuous integration pipeline by rewriting CircleCI build configurations, improving average build times from 4 minutes to 40 seconds
• Implemented backend REST API and frontend dashboard designs with Flask and React.js for Avenu Insights
2017 — 2021
2017 — 2021
Santa Barbara, California Area
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
West Covina, California, United States
• Led team of 4 in full-stack development of fashion website focusing on providing users with accurate clothing size information
• Created RESTful API in Node.js with Express to support CRUD and search operations based on user identities/profiles
• Designed PostgreSQL database including products, brands, users, user portfolios, ratings, and comments tables
• Implemented frontend components with React.js and improved upon navbar design with custom CSS for better user experience
• Met with client weekly and incorporated customer feedback into product requirements and design
Education
UC Santa Barbara
Bachelor of Science - BS
Lowell High School