Experience

Owner

Integrative R&D · Self-employed

Jun 2023 — Present

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

Sustainable Progress and Equality Collective

Jun 2020 — Present

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

Sep 2020 — Feb 2026

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

Jan 2018 — Aug 2020

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

Feb 2015 — Dec 2017

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

2013 — 2016

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

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