Career

Founder @ KaoDev

March 2023 - Present
I engineer solutions for business owners and growing companies.
  • Work with emerging VC firm Theory Ventures in the Bay Area on portfolio site and to expand their online presence
  • Develop Demo and Tutorial experience for a16z backed startup Rye, including the checkout experience for cart
  • Content creation including problem creation, solutions, and test cases for engineering learning platform GreatFrontEnd
  • Create scheduling and reservation system for Wilson Park Ceramics

Founder @ KaoDev

March 2023 - Present
I engineer solutions for business owners and growing companies.
  • Work with emerging VC firm Theory Ventures in the Bay Area on portfolio site and to expand their online presence
  • Develop Demo and Tutorial experience for a16z backed startup Rye, including the checkout experience for cart
  • Content creation including problem creation, solutions, and test cases for engineering learning platform GreatFrontEnd
  • Create scheduling and reservation system for Wilson Park Ceramics

Senior Software Engineer @ Magic Eden

June 2023 - Dec 2023
Magic Eden is the premier NFT marketplace and self-custody crypto wallet for users to discover, trade, and create NFTs across multiple blockchains.
  • Maintained, developed, and deprecated components in UI library as part of the UI Infrastucture team
  • Redesigned core Solana Marketplace and Profile pages, and MagicEden Bitcoin to enhance UX and interface consistency
  • Developed new MagicEden homepage as part of company rebrand and redesign using NextJS and Zustand

Web Developer, Contract @ Notion

May 2023 - Oct 2023
Notion is a note-taking and collaboration application for tasks, wikis, and databases.
  • Designed A/B testing experiments for most trafficked pages including Notion.so and Notion AI
  • Conducted Statsig experiments to optimize metrics conversion and bounce rates across all locales
  • Collaborated with designer to build multiple versions of UI variants to optimize landing pages
  • Create workflow for designers, project managers, engineers, and QA to follow for proper A/B testing from ideation, design review, development, QA, and to production

Founding Engineer @ Proxychat

March 2022 - Feb 2023
Proxychat is social for web3. As a founding frontend engineer, I built our application to help engage and grow web3 communities.
  • Developed Web3 platform on Next.js to decentralize decision making for DAOs and NFT communities
  • Engineered content feed, posting flow, community management, user settings, and key chat features with Redux
  • Built voting and governance tools including upvoting, reactions, threads, and grant submissions
  • Architected responsive design views for mobile and desktop compatibility w/ Tailwind, React, CSS

Senior Software Engineer @ Enjoy

Sep 2017 - Aug 2022
Enjoy is reinventing “Commerce at Home” to bring the store directly to customers. I created applications to manage performance, revenue, and shift schedules of over 1000 employees across 40+ markets.
  • Created mobile-first employee performance and compensation applications with React, Apollo, & GraphQL
  • Built internal scheduling tools to manage 1k+ employees in 50 different markets in US, UK, and CA
  • Develop gamification and reward initiatives- improving key employee performance over 20% across multiple quarters
  • Built internal tools to manage 1k+ employees and 50+ markets (US, UK, & Canada)

Cofounder @ Artificial Irrelevants

Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Artificial Irrelevants is a collection of 4848 Robot NFTs built on the Solana blockchain. I built the interface to allow users to connect their wallet to mint NFTs and the Rarity Tool.
  • Launched NFT platform (b2c) on the Solana blockchain, raising $750k+ profit in 1 month
  • Built client interface to connect user wallets for mint and purchase of NFTs w/ Web3 smart contracts
  • Optimized system and used code splitting to allow scaling of up to 3k users internationally
  • Engineered UI Rarity Tool for calculating statistical rarity and to determine product rankings

Frontend Software Engineer @ EdCast (acquired by Cornerstone)

Jan 2016 - Aug 2017
EdCast offers a unified talent & learning experience platform (LXP) for the end-to-end employee journeys spanning learning & career mobility.
  • Developed features for learning platform- including pathways for skills certification and employer assigned learning
  • Created software development kit to improve feature development lifecycle
  • Revamped site to a Single Page Application with React & Redux

Web Developer @ Shutterfly

Feb 2013 - Sep 2014
Web developer for CafePress- Shutterfly's online retailer of stock and user-customized on-demand products.
  • Increased SEO web traffic 30% year over year, and revenue by 20% year over year- by managing web metadata, search engine keyword rankings, and link building
  • Developed Specialized Landing Pages, unique content for users, and Javascript widgets for high ranking keywords
  • Managed Product Taxonomy of 50+ trending, seasonal, and popular categories
  • Implemented rich snippets like ratings, Product Videos, Breadcrumbs, & Authorships