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Work Experience

• Senior Product Engineer (Independent), Exquisite.Monster

  Jan, 2025 - Present

  Architected and developed a production-grade multiplayer web application digitizing the party game “Eat Poop You Cat,” serving real-time collaborative gameplay with sophisticated user-generated content management.

  • Stack: Svelte 5 + SvelteKit 2 + TypeScript, Supabase with Prisma ORM

  • Background Processing: BullMQ job queues handling game expiration, turn timeouts, and email notifications

  • Authentication & Security: Clerk integration with custom middleware, role-based access control

  • Caching Strategy: Multi-tier HTTP caching with ETags, CDN optimization, and conditional requests

  • Testing Strategy: Comprehensive test suite including Playwright E2E and Vitest unit tests

• Solo Full-Stack Software Engineer (Freelance), AllScreen (closed beta)

  Jan, 2024 - Jan, 20251 year

  Worked closely with the client to develop, and then implement, specifications to engineer a secure, full-stack clinical questionnaire platform.

  • Stack: TypeScript and Supabase, implementing Vercel KV (Redis) for caching to ensure real-time data delivery

  • Integrated Stripe for subscription management and payment processing

  • Architected modular, route-based features for admins, clinicians, and recipients, with secure, one-question-at-a-time delivery

  • Employed Tailwind CSS for responsive UI, and Playwright for end-to-end testing

• Full-Stack Software Engineer, Mayvenn

  Sep, 2017 - Jul, 20235 years 10 months

  • Utilized Clojure for event-sourced microservices and ClojureScript for the entire frontend architecture

  • Integrated our site with third-party API vendors for payments (Stripe, Paypal, Zip, Green Dot), shipping (Aftership), customer relation services (Kustomer), marketing (Iterable), and voucher management (Voucherify)

  • Simplified website modifications for non-developers by moving content out of code and into a content management system (Contentful)

  • Served as a context engineer, performing deep technical analysis and architectural design to scope and de-risk complex projects for the engineering team, ensuring high-quality implementation and mentoring delivery engineers on best practices

  • Created and maintained documentation for microservices, in-house tools, workflows, and tests

  • Integrated our site both front-end and back-end with Meta Pixel and Conversions API via GTM and GA, as well as TikTok's Pixel and Events API

• Back-End Software Engineer, Live Auctioneers

  Jun, 2014 - May, 20172 years 11 months

  • As the sole back-end member of the mobile apps team, extended the PHP-based mobile API to parallel app development

  • Created presentational and container React/Redux components for the main site, and TypeScript API endpoints to feed them

  • Integrated Riskified fraud-prevention service, dramatically reducing incidents of fraudulent bidding

  • Created Python/Selenium-based and Travis-hosted integration tests to test a websocket-driven bidding console with a PhantomJS browser

• Client Service Associate, Media Planning & Analysis, Worth Linen Associates

  Dec, 2003 - Jun, 201410 years 6 months

  • Wrote and maintained Python/Selenium/Pandas script to automate a biweekly data download from vendor website, streamlining a tedious, error-prone task into a one-click procedure

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