About Me
I'm a software engineer who enjoys building end-to-end products, from user-facing experiences to the backend systems and infrastructure that keep them running.
My work spans startups, freelance projects, and production systems at scale, with a focus on turning ideas into reliable software that teams can ship, operate, and grow with confidence.
Experience
Software Engineer
Pangea Chat
May 2023 - Apr 2026
Remote
- â–¹Architected an event-driven AI assistant for app.pangea.chat that handled 1,000+ requests per second and increased first-time user engagement by 50%.
- â–¹Designed and maintained FastAPI-based backend services for LLM workflows and core business logic, improving scalability and reducing latency by 30%.
- â–¹Built CI/CD pipelines across the chatbot stack, cutting deployment time by 90% and reducing release overhead for dependent services.
- â–¹Established telemetry, alerting, and monitoring across production services, reducing incident response delay by 90%.
- â–¹Improved developer efficiency by 100% by spearheading AI-assisted workflows through spec-driven development and setting up an agent-centric codebase documentation system.
Software Engineer
CYOBot
Dec 2023 - May 2024
Dover, Delaware
- â–¹Built a high-performance landing page with Google Analytics instrumentation, increasing user engagement by 40% and reducing bounce rate by 25%.
- â–¹Led development of the company's core coding portal, increasing user adoption by 60% and cutting onboarding time by 30%.
- â–¹Implemented a CMS that streamlined publishing workflows and improved deployment speed by 50%.
- â–¹Configured company-wide SSO with Keycloak, centralizing authentication and strengthening security compliance.
Software Engineer
Vulcan Augmetics
Sep 2023 - Dec 2023
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
- â–¹Integrated a CMS that improved content management efficiency by 50% and simplified collaboration across teams.
- â–¹Implemented OAuth2 login flows to improve authentication security and simplify user access.
- â–¹Built a custom identity and access management system that improved administrator productivity when managing authorization flows.
- â–¹Added telemetry, alerting, monitoring, and an on-call system for production usage, reducing incident response time by 35% while maintaining 99.9% uptime.
Software Engineer
Century International Development Investment
Dec 2022 - May 2023
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
- â–¹Architected and set up an end-to-end encrypted messaging service used by 50+ high-profile employees for secure internal communication.
- â–¹Implemented a calendar service integrated with chat, improving employee productivity by an estimated 20 hours per week.
- â–¹Developed a notification service connected to chat and calendar workflows, increasing timely response to company updates by 40%.
- â–¹Built an admin dashboard over existing databases, improving front-end developer productivity by 50%.
Cloud Application Engineer Intern
Designer Brands Inc.
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Columbus, Ohio
- â–¹Owned primary development of key features across 3 cloud-based microservices supporting dsw.com, which handled 10M+ requests per day.
- â–¹Spearheaded data migration of 5,000 entries from Oracle legacy systems to internal apps running on PostgreSQL and Kubernetes, improving landing page load time by 10%.
- â–¹Reduced microservices outbound traffic by 2% by filtering out internal metadata emitted by microservices to end-users.
Assistant Network Engineer
Denison University
May 2021 - May 2022
Granville, Ohio
- â–¹Resolved 200+ network-related tickets with a 95% first-call resolution rate, including device patching and network troubleshooting for office and dormitory clients.
- â–¹Supported a campus network migration by configuring and installing 50+ replacement devices, contributing to a 30% improvement in network reliability.
- â–¹Documented upgraded network test procedures and connection setup processes, reducing future troubleshooting time by 20%.
- â–¹Managed inventory for 1,000+ network assets and compiled monthly reports to support infrastructure planning.
Co-Founder, Full-Stack Engineer
DeerX
Aug 2021 - May 2024
Columbus, Ohio
- â–¹Founded an open-source community for Denison students to get started with open-source contributions.
- â–¹Led a team of 7 engineers building a full-stack mobile application using Agile sprint management.
- â–¹Built an open marketplace that reduced campus-wide used-item waste by 25%.
- â–¹Integrated built-in chat and notification services into the marketplace, doubling transaction rates and supporting 100K+ messages and notifications daily.
Tech Stack
AI Developer Tools
Claude CodeVSCode Copilot Chat
Frontend Technologies
HTMLCSSReactReact NativeTailwind CSSSassElectron
Backend Technologies
Express.jsNext.jsFastAPIFlaskDjangoAnsibleDockerKubernetesCeleryRabbitMQApache KafkaRedisPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBSQLiteTerraformPineconeLangChainLangGraph
Cloud Technologies
Amazon Web Services (ECS, EC2, Lambda, SQS, RDS, S3, SNS, SES, VPC, Cognito, IAM, EventBridge)Google Cloud Platform (Firebase, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL)VercelServerless Framework
Programming Languages
JavaPythonTypeScript
Education
University of Southern Queensland
Master of Information Systems
Expected Graduation Aug 2027
Queensland, Australia
Relevant Coursework:
Management of Cyber SecuritySystems Analysis and Design
Denison University
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Graduated May 2024
Granville, Ohio
GPA: 3.52/4.00
Relevant Coursework:
Data StructuresAlgorithm Design and AnalysisData SystemsComputer SystemsOperating SystemsParallel ComputingQuantum ComputingArtificial IntelligenceStatistics