Experience
Owner
Integrative R&D · Self-employed
Remote
Consulting practice focused on designing systems and processes, conducting applied research, and collaborating with teams to solve meaningful technical challenges.
Co-founder · Collective Administrator
United States
- Co-founded and lead a collective that has channeled over $300K into open-source projects and career training for underrepresented communities. Grew the organization from a founding team to a network of contributors and partners.
- Established a two-year partnership with the RAND Corporation's Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy (CAREP), leading content development across microcredentials, socio-cultural gaming, and a research intern program that placed 6 of 12 participants into tech roles.
- Personally donated $80K to fund job opportunities for underrepresented individuals entering the tech sector.
- Prototyped a cross-platform desktop app for tracking user activity for academic research and digital inclusion impact studies.
Senior Software Engineer
Square · Full-time
Remote
- Led critical projects in the Payroll domain, including API architecture, performance optimization, and data-driven experimentation.
- Led a team of 3 engineers to rebuild the Run Payroll page from legacy JavaScript to TypeScript React and Protobuf APIs, reducing page load times from 20+ seconds to under 3 seconds for strategic sellers.
- Drove a ~20% increase in Payroll monthly recurring revenue by leading the Free Trial Experiment, introducing A/B testing with Optimizely and partnering with the SaaS team on subscription flows.
- Grew the Neurodiversity Community from 100 to 1,000 members as Bay Area Chair, leading events on workplace inclusion and mental health.
Senior Software Engineer / Engineering Manager
Artemis · Full-time
Remote
- Led development of a mobile application portal for a virtual agronomy platform. Managed the project from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance.
- Led a team of 10 engineers, created an open-source state management library, and drove modernization of the company's React frontend and Rails backend APIs.
Software Engineer
Verba Software
San Francisco Bay Area
- Integrated digital course material service provider with a leading enterprise student information system to automate manual reconciliation processes for university accounts receivable departments.
Web Developer
Freelance · Full-time
Remote
- Developed an automated call-center service for a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company's product release. Delivered two months ahead of schedule and $15K under budget.
- Guest lecturer on environmental physics and sustainable technologies at the State University of New York at Albany.
Skills & Interests
Technical Skills
- Full-Stack Engineering (Ruby, TypeScript, React, Elixir)
- Systems Architecture & API Design
- Performance Optimization & Data Migrations
- A/B Experimentation & Data-Driven Development
- Engineering Management & Mentoring
- Public Speaking & Technical Writing
Projects & Organizations
- SPEC — co-founder
- Integrative R&D — founder, consulting
- Effective Altruism
- Giving What We Can
Research Areas
- AI & AI-Assisted Development
- Open Source & Open Science
- Systems Thinking & Complexity
- Sustainable Development & Agriculture
- Citizen Science & Engineering
- Global Existential Risk & Climate
- Social Justice & Equity
- STEAM Education
Personal Interests
- History & Philosophy
- Languages (Italian, Spanish, Mandarin)
- Hiking & Gardening
- Music & Film
- Cooking
- Martial Arts
- Space Exploration