Experience
Oct 2020 - Present
Software Engineer
NFX
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
Full stack Engineer
Developed a document sharing platform, social network app, CRM, and an ATS system specific to VC, enabling founders to fundraise and investors to evaluate deals at scale (React.js, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL/Apollo)
Led full stack engineering efforts by designing schema changes, composing tech specs, estimating timelines, distributing tasks to a team of engineers, conducting PR reviews, and overseeing feature branch deployment to staging environment for PM and stakeholder testing (Github, CircleCI, Heroku, Sentry)
Onboarded four engineers with continuous mentorship, facilitating weekly one-on-one meetings
Collaborated with designers in agile development process, anticipating edge cases and ensuring responsive and pixel-perfect execution from other engineers in PR reviews (Sketch, Figma)
Optimized SEO by server side rendering SPA and setting up interval Sitemap generation (React.js, Webpack)
Designed and developed API endpoints to share data across three clients (Ruby on Rails, GraphQL)
Significantly reduced call times of multiple core API endpoints by batch loading queries, utilizing in-memory databases (Redis) for common queries, and optimizing legacy SQL through simplification
Developed internal analytics dashboard combining data from two third party data warehouses, two production databases, and one existing external analytics tools (JQL, raw SQL, ActiveRecord, AJAX requests)
Sumup Analytics
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
Frontend Engineer
Responsible for developing the frontend and GUI for a text analytics platform that empowers its users analyze complex datasets in a matter of minutes.
Worked alongside executives and R&D team to determine upcoming features to integrate work from internal NLP product offering
Introduced Redux to the team as our client-side global state manager to ensure reliable front-end performance and efficient data management
Used NodeJS with websockets (Socket.io) to enable real time data transmission for a chat feature, an RSS feed, and to prevent AJAX request timeouts when processing large datasets through our NLP API
Created interactive data visualization to display sentiment analysis (Chart.js)
Gensler
Aug 2015 - Sep 2017
Designer
Strategized, conceptualized, and visually communicated design direction for commercial Interior Architectural projects ranging from 2,000 to 400,000 square feet.
Designed and executed over fifteen successful interior architectural projects, resulting in recognition in over ten online publications including, but not limited to, Fortune, Refinery29, Esquire, and Wired.
Won two clients through design vision presentations and earned their continued business by demonstrating a thorough understanding of client needs and exceeding expectations, resulting in five additional projects within the span of two and a half years.
Studio O+A
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Design Intern
Translated computer-aided drafting (CAD) plans into 3D perspectives with 3ds Max
Modeled complex furniture and lighting based on web images and rough dimensions
Created high-definition materials using photoshop and V-Ray
Post-processed 3D renderings in photoshop to amplify lighting and reflect photo realistic scenes