Resume
Senior Software Engineer in native and full stack web applications (in Seattle)
Comfortable embracing many roles including product design and project management
Work Experience
Founding Engineer, Full Stack at a16z backed seed stage startup
April 2024 to Present
Chestnut
Built and extended full stack features for payouts, compliance, onboarding, and data ingestion pipelines
Collaborated and iterated with design/product via Figma/excalidraw to build delightful UIs in tailwind
Authored, reviewed and implemented technical specifications for new features and system improvements
Practiced independent agency: identified and fixed quick-win issues alongside my main task at hand
Built and iterated on GitHub Actions CI/CD and local development tools for engineering efficiency
Leveraged LLM tools to quickly pattern match existing functionality, extend and document code
Conducted code reviews with thoughtful questions, feedback and suggestions
Golang, temporal, postgres, SQLc, dynamoDB, dagster, python, connect-es, tanstack query, zod, & RHF
Senior Software Engineer, Cofounder of Omnicom.ai (microphone sync app)
Jan 2020 to Dec 2023
Kernel Labs
Built real-time (<60ms) audio signal processing system to synchronize and echo-cancel in C/Rust
Built hardware integration for 6 figure corporate contract with Hewlet Packard (HP) in C/GStreamer
Built contacts+notes voice assistant app (Ciremi) in React Native Expo using GPT4 LLM openai api
Built full stack apps for 1000s of users in Typescript/React Native/AWS Lambda/Fargate/EC2
Quantized machine learning model for real-time audio signal inference on Android
Mentored junior developers and enhanced engineer productivity by simplifying codebases
Software Engineer, Cofounder of Halloo (Alexa/Google Home app)
Apr 2018 to Jan 2020
Kernel Labs
Built Alexa & Google Home voice social network (like Houseparty) using Typescript/Python/AWS
Built Chrome Extension for de-noising audio with in-house ML model using JavaScript and Python
Developed an internal analytics, logs, and error browsing tool to streamline access to critical data
Software Engineer, Cofounder
Sep 2015 to May 2018
BellHapp Inc
Built restaurant mobile web app for the dine-in experience of ordering and real-time staff messaging
Bootstrapped with 1-2 engineers; owned design and UX; led weekly meetings & task organization
Research Demo Builder for Dan Suciu
Sep 2015 to May 2018
University of Washington, Computer Science & Engineering Department
Built best-in-conference demo for VLDB 2018 and demo'd at ACM SIGMOD 2018
Developed a SQL-based framework for drawing causal inference using Python and Postgres
Visualized and fixed bias in OLAP queries using Angular and Typescript
Software Engineer
Jun 2015 to Sep 2015
eBay Enterprise
Built Magento e-commerce front-end linked to our legacy back-end as a proof of concept in PHP/SQL
Skills
Languages:
Go, SQL, Typescript, Python, Protobuf, C/C++, Rust, GStreamer
Backend:
Temporal, Postgres, DynamoDB, Dagster, AWS, EC2, Lambda, Docker, SSR, SQLite, redis
Frontend:
React, Next, Tanstack Query, Connect-es, Tailwind, React-Hook-Form, Zod, Shadcn
Tools:
Neovim, Supermaven, Cursor, GitHub Actions, Linear, Excalidraw, Postman, Figma
Education
University of Washington, Dean's List, Bachelor of Science
Sep 2013 to June 2017
Computer Science custom track in Informatics, Math minor