Projects & Experience

Projects

Resume

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Senior engineer with 0โ†’1 full-stack ownership in Go and TypeScript.

Work Experience

Founding Engineer, Full Stack at a16z backed seed stage startup April 2024 to Present

Chestnut

  • Owned 0โ†’1 payouts, bonuses, compliance, onboarding in Go, React TS, Temporal, Postgres, SQLc
  • Built codebase research & planning tooling with Pi, Hermes, OpenAI, SQLite, Datastar, templ, SQLc
  • Shipped internal Slack bot for eng ops, product research, and Linear enrichment
  • Used LLM tooling to fix bugs, reduce tech debt, and maintain velocity
  • Senior Software Engineer, Cofounder of Omnicom.ai (microphone sync app) Jan 2020 to Dec 2023

    Kernel Labs

  • Built 0โ†’1 sub-60ms audio sync and echo cancellation system in C/Rust
  • Delivered HP hardware integration using C, GStreamer, and embedded audio
  • Shipped Ciremi, a GPT-4 voice notes app, in React Native Expo
  • Built apps for thousands of users with TS, React Native, Lambda, Fargate, EC2
  • Quantized ML model for real-time Android audio inference
  • Mentored engineers and simplified codebases to improve delivery speed
  • Software Engineer, Cofounder of Halloo (Alexa/Google Home app) Apr 2018 to Jan 2020

    Kernel Labs

  • Built 0โ†’1 Alexa and Google Home social voice app in TS/Python/AWS
  • Built Chrome audio denoising extension with in-house ML in JS/Python
  • Built internal analytics, logs, and error browser for faster debugging
  • Software Engineer, Cofounder Sep 2015 to May 2018

    BellHapp Inc

  • Built 0โ†’1 restaurant ordering and staff messaging mobile web app
  • Owned product design, UX, planning, and execution with 1โ€“2 engineers
  • Research Demo Builder for Babak Salimi & Dan Suciu Sep 2015 to May 2018

    University of Washington, Computer Science & Engineering Department

  • Built VLDB best-in-conference demo using Python, Postgres, and Angular
  • Developed SQL framework for causal inference research in Python/Postgres
  • Visualized and debugged OLAP query bias using Angular and TypeScript
  • Software Engineer Jun 2015 to Sep 2015

    eBay Enterprise

  • Built Magento e-commerce frontend proof of concept using PHP and SQL
  • Skills

    Languages: Go, SQL, TypeScript, Python, C, Rust

    Backend: Temporal, Postgres, Datastar, SSE, AWS, EC2, Lambda, Docker, SQLite, Redis, GStreamer

    Frontend: React, Next, Tanstack Query, Proto Connect, Tailwind, React-Hook-Form, Zod, Shadcn

    Tools: Neovim, Claude Code, OpenClaw, Linear, Excalidraw, Figma

    Education

    University of Washington, Dean's List, Bachelor of Science Sep 2013 to June 2017

    Computer Science custom track in Informatics, Math minor