what i've built

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currently building

Volunteeritude

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Started Oct 2024

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The first universal platform for tracking volunteer impact. Built as sole engineer and founder — from zero to 2,000+ volunteers across 20+ organizations in under a year.

  • ›Sole engineer & founder — shipped MVP to beta within 3 months of inception
  • ›Grew to 2,000+ volunteers across 20+ orgs with 65% weekly active users
  • ›Secured pilots with Duke School of Medicine PA program + 3 high schools
  • ›Multi-tenant RBAC PostgreSQL schema, zero-downtime CI/CD on Vercel
  • ›Built RESTful APIs, webhooks, and background job queues for async event ingestion
  • ›Real-time impact analytics dashboards + automated reporting pipelines
  • ›Append-only audit logging for compliance — full trail of all submissions and admin actions
Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLVercel

past work

Pendo.io

Backend Software Engineer

Jan 2022 – Aug 2025

Product analytics SaaS serving thousands of enterprise customers.

  • ›Launched Session Replay to GA — architected recording service + time-partitioned storage, generating $1.1M ARR in Q1
  • ›Reduced Session Replay playback latency 30% via new event processing pipeline with schema + storage optimizations
  • ›Built dedicated ingestion, processing, and storage pipeline services separate from the core event pipeline
  • ›Unlocked $3M+ ARR by leading a multi-IdP SAML SSO overhaul — zero-downtime migration for every customer
  • ›Built internal tooling that automated customer environment access for Technical Support, cutting operational costs $160K/yr
GoPostgreSQLCloud Pub/SubDistributed systemsEvent-driven architecture

WillowTree

Backend Software Developer Intern

Jun – Aug 2021

Digital product agency building user-centric mobile & web apps.

  • ›Reduced application memory footprint 50% by introducing data pagination and server-side caching
  • ›Developed and integrated RESTful APIs for mobile and web clients; shipped features end-to-end using CI/CD
Node.jsREST APIsCI/CD

skills

languages

Go (Golang)TypeScriptPythonSQL

frameworks & libraries

Node.jsNext.jsReact

databases & storage

PostgreSQLCloud DatastoreCloud Storage (GCS)Cloudflare R2Redis

cloud & infrastructure

Cloud Pub/SubCloud MonitoringVercelCloudflare CDN/DNS/DDoS

systems & practices

Distributed systemsEvent-driven architecturesMicroservicesCI/CD

ai & llm

OpenAI APIClaude CodeCursor

education

North Carolina State University

B.S. Computer Science · Minors: Physics, Mathematics

Summa Cum Laude · GPA: 3.945 · Dec 2021

Computer Science Honors, University Scholars Program