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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