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Professional experience and career history
Stormlight Labscurrent
Founder and Lead Software Engineer
2024 - Present
Remote/Austin, TX

Lead Engineer of a mental health & open-source focused startup, architecting scalable systems and leading development from concept to production.

Highlights
  • Translated complex technical and product requirements into intuitive, performant, and maintainable software solutions grounded in research and user feedback
  • Developed and optimized multi-platform applications and open-source libraries using Svelte, Rust, Go, and Flutter, applying modern software design patterns, concurrency models, and profiling for high reliability and performance
RustGoSolidTauriSvelte
Edlink
Senior Software Engineer
2023-2024
Austin, TX

Technical lead and project manager for Flow, a data pipeline connecting LMS to SIS providers for schools.

Highlights
  • Adapted new data model to the API, as well as connectors for new integrations
  • Built and designed novel system architecture around PubSub and BigQuery, and Cloud functions
  • NestJS (with TypeScript) and Postgres in a Kubernetes cluster on GCP with Redis. Dashboard built with Vue
KubernetesPostgresNestJSTypeScriptVueGCP
CampusOptics
Software Engineer
2022 - 2023
Austin

Independently gathered requirements from customers and management to develop new features for a higher education Environmental Health and Safety SaaS.

Highlights
  • Built features for a React Native application while adding endpoints to the internal API
  • Complete Stack: Redis for Sidekiq, Ruby on Rails monolith, and Postgres deployed to AWS Elastic Container Service
ReactRuby on RailsPostgresAWSRedis
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Software Engineer
2019 - 2022
Austin, TX

Architected the Frontera User Portal, the first implementation of the Core Experience Portal v2.

Highlights
  • Built with React, Django, and Postgres
  • Developed SEO optimization strategy and publication pipeline update on DesignSafe-CI
  • Advocated for and improved internal testing practices and implemented Pytest for Core V2
Node.jsGoReactMongoDBDocker
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Positions
7+
Years
18
Technologies