I am a Principal Software Engineer with over twelve years of experience creating high-quality digital products that customers love. I am an excellent communicator and leader, with a knack for turning complex problems into actionable steps. I am highly self-motivated, solution-oriented, and eager to step in wherever I am needed most to help a company scale and grow.
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Joined as Founding Chief Technology Officer
Helped secure funding
Built a backend that scales to 10,000 RPS with sub-200 ms latency
Grew subscription ARR from $0 to $500K in four months
Used user research, A/B testing, and SEO optimization to grow YAU to over 2 million
Managed the creation of Facebook ad campaigns, achieving a 5x ROAS
Worked alongside some of the largest daycare organizations in the U.S.
Identified critical issues in AWS infrastructure, reducing costs in key areas by 90%
Hired and managed a team of developers to deliver high-quality updates and features
Precious
“A YC back company, Precious is the iPhone app that tells the story of your children growing up. Using Artificial Intelligence, the app automatically finds the best baby pics on your phone, and then creates deliciously cute photo stories for you.”
Leveraged user research and rapid prototyping to scale subscriptions beyond 100k, generating over $6M in ARR.
Built and maintained the iOS application and Django backend for the core Precious app. Led backend development for StyleMuse. Served as lead developer for Hangout Games.
Led multiple high-impact projects, including a tool that reduced artwork turnaround time by 30x (from 60 minutes to 2 minutes).
Contributed to the development of a state-of-the-art face identification ML model.
Architected and implemented an on-device ML image-processing pipeline capable of efficiently processing an entire user photo library in under 30 minutes.
Applied YC principles to take two separate businesses from ideation to launch.
Launched SytleMuse, a clothing try-on app
Launched Hangout Games, a multiplayer VR party game
Infinity Loop Capitol
“ILC owns and operates a wide variety of digital assets reaching a yearly audience of 15 Million users”
Led the development and maintenance of iOS and Android apps with 500K MAU.
Used A/B testing and analytics to optimize ad delivery, supporting over 40 million monthly ad impressions.
Created an automated build and deployment pipeline to release 50 state-specific variants of our DMV app.
Launched multiple products that expanded the audience to and beyond 15 million users.
Genji
“Genji is the social listening tool built to supercharge game growth. With 24/7 social listening, providing instant insights, Genji saves you time & money so you can focus on building a great game for your community.”
Created highly parallelized AI/ML pipelines to process 100s of GBs of data.
Deployed GPU powered cloud infrastructure to run our own LLM.
Utilized our own LLM and ChatGPT to generate summaries from 1000s of user messages.
Built systems to generate RAG agents tailored to Genji’s users.
Applied techniques such as TF-IDF to parse gigabytes of messages into customer-relevant topics.
Adaptify
“The only white-labeled platform that fully automates prompt & keyword research, content, backlinks, and reporting for agencies.”
Leveraged LLMs and traditional XML parsing to extract marketing intelligence from competitor websites
Designed LLM-powered branching logic to enable advanced social reasoning capabilities
Authored high-performing prompts that led to customers receiving 150% growth in traffic
Kidjo
Kidjo is a subscription-based edutainment platform for kids. With over 4500 videos, audiobooks, and games, Kidjo delivers a complete, immersive experience across three dynamic apps.
Handled end-to-end development of iOS, Apple TV, Android, Android TV, web, and backend platforms from inception to successful launch.
Created a scalable video processing pipeline supporting HLS, DASH, H.265, and H.264, capable of dynamically scaling to process 1000s of videos concurrently.
Led COPPA compliance efforts, ensuring adherence to child data privacy regulations.
Sold for an undisclosed amount.
