Think Round, Inc | Full Stack Engineer Intern | 10/23 - present

Development of the Virtual Center for the Human Family, a web application showcasing the vision for a proposed multi-purpose space in San Francisco to enrich and serve the community.

• collaborate with artists, UX/UI designers, and 3D animators to design and implement new features

• translate Figma wireframes into responsive web design, creating interactive tools that allow users to interact with the site

• participate in debugging, code reviews, and thorough testing to ensure the delivery of high-quality user experiences

Jamuary.fm | Full Stack Engineer | 12/23 - 2/23

Development of a web app for allowing friends to share music recordings with each other, supplying daily inspirational prompts and hosting audio uploads.

• Develop advanced features using SvelteKit, including uploading/downloading audio and update/delete capabilities for authorized users

• Submit pull requests for code review by senior team members to ensure adherence to programming best practices

Full Stack Engineer | 5/23 - present

Repertoire - end-to-end development of a web app for discovering and managing curriculum materials for music students. 

• Decreased API response time from 4s to 1.5s by A/B testing prompts to the GPT-4o AI model

• Conducted rigorous component-level testing with Jest, and thorough end-to-end testing with Cypress, ensuring reliable functionality and early detection of potential issues in the development phase

• Used Postman to verify API behavior by pinging each endpoint as it was created and logging requests

Galaxy Commerce - converted a monolithic legacy API into scalable and efficient microservices capable of handling high-volume traffic.

• Populated a PostrgreSQL database with 3+ million entries by loading CSV files to an AWS virtual machine

• Reduced database response by 111% from 450ms to ~5 ms by implementing foreign key indexes and
  performance tuning SQL queries with aggregate operations

• Increased throughput by 400% with ~20 ms latency and 0% error rate by horizontally scaling with 3 AWS EC2 instances and Nginx round robin load balancing algorithm

Superbox Mobile App - provided a feature-rich mobile sales app for comics and related media, including a marketplace for browsing listings, a cart for managing purchases, and a profile page for managing user settings. 

• Collaborated with 7 engineers in an Agile environment to decide project architecture, Git workflow (including code reviews), daily stand up times, and division of labor

• Increased efficiency by reducing API calls by 66% through leveraging of useContext

• Completed client deliverables ~25% faster by building reusable custom components with React-Native