Experiences

A journey through building products, from founding startups to shipping enterprise applications at scale.

Software Engineer

JPMorganChase·2023 - Present
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Admin App
A unified portal for internal tooling. Feature flags, preferences, notifications, utilities. Everything in one place. I built the frontend to show what React can be.

Design engineer building desktop applications in React and Electron. I care deeply about craft, and it shows in what I ship.

Feature flags with A/B testing. A search engine querying 50,000+ items in 20ms. CI/CD reduced by 3x. Led a team of 6 to win best-in-class for technical excellence and design.

I stay ahead of the curve on tooling and AI. I try new approaches early and share what works.

  • Built Admin App, a unified portal for internal tooling
  • Created a feature flag library with A/B testing, staged rollouts, user targeting, kill switches, and analytics
  • Developed a client-side search engine querying 50,000+ items in 20ms
  • Reduced monorepo CI/CD time by 3x, saving 600+ minutes per developer per week
  • Implemented LLM insights and analytics tracking for 1,000+ users
  • Led a team of 6 to win best-in-class for technical excellence, design, and client success

Founder

Unison·2023 - 2024

An application for managing connections. A Rolodex for the modern age.

A desktop and mobile app that surfaced actions for your connections in natural language. Data imported automatically from LinkedIn, X, email. Tree visualization for relationship mapping.

The product didn't work out. We raised funding, joined OwlSpark/RedLabs, met with Y Combinator. Learned a lot.

Shoutout to my founding team Bryant Le, Mihir Sahu, Christian Ohanaja, and Tariq Achor Zyad for their hard work and dedication to the product.

  • Raised funding
  • Joined the OwlSpark/RedLabs accelerator
  • Developed a performant desktop application using React and Rust
  • Built a Go GraphQL framework for fast and scalable backend development
  • Deployed a monorepo with support for remote caching and rapid iteration
  • Created a CI/CD pipeline with heartbeat monitoring, self-healing, edge deployment, and automatic scaling

Vice President

CougarCS·2022 - 2024

The largest student-run CS organization at the University of Houston. Started as technology director leading 25 web developers. Advanced to Vice President.

Workshops, socials, partnerships. Google, Electronic Arts, Accenture, ConocoPhillips, and more.

  • Managed a team of 15, overseeing 50+ events for 650+ students
  • Partnered with 10+ companies to secure sponsorships and collaborations
  • Increased event attendance by 20% through targeted marketing and community building
  • Designed and implemented an API to process data from 650+ users and events
  • Migrated from DynamoDB to PostgreSQL, reducing time to market by 50%

Marketing

CodeRED Odyssey·2022 - 2022

Houston's largest hackathon. Marketing and outreach.

  • Developed a Discord bot to manage onboarding and moderation for 300+ users
  • Executed data-driven marketing strategies, increasing engagement by 220%
  • 300+ attendees
  • Collaborated with 10+ sponsors, including Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Red Bull, Cisco, and more

Founder

Rumble Network·2017 - 2019

A gaming server provider and community I started in high school. 50,000+ users at peak. Development, marketing, sales, support.

  • Developed a bare-metal hosting solution for distributed game servers
  • Managed a staff team of 12 members across marketing, customer support, and development
  • Built an automated billing system for in-game purchases
  • Created a Discord bot to reduce spam and automate moderation tasks
  • Designed game maps, items, and modes using C# and PHP