Resume

Skills

TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python, SQL

React.js, Next.js, Node.js, Svelte.js, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, .Net, Docker, AWS

Experience

Freelance Technical Consultant: Drums for Schools Ltd2024 – present

Reduced WordPress deployment times by 50% by designing a CI/CD pipeline that automated full-stack releases using Composer, SQL, and PHP migrations.

Curated a 10+ agent AI-based onboarding system, eliminating live training and accelerating new-hire productivity.

Implemented a KeePass-based password management solution and company-wide documentation, cutting credential exposure risk by 50%.

Authored an accepted proposal for a WooCommerce update AI agent to streamline maintenance after version releases.

Technical Lead – Web Team: Blockchains Inc2022 – 2023

Led migration from a legacy React codebase to a modern Next.js/TypeScript stack, improving maintainability and scalability.

Cut code redundancy by ~30% through reusable component architecture and standardized client-server response patterns.

Collaborated with backend and design teams to introduce structured API error handling, increasing developer velocity and UX reliability.

Orchestrated multi-region CI/CD pipelines via GitLab, Docker, and Kubernetes, enhancing deployment reliability.

Web Engineer2021 – 2022

Built reusable React components for issuing Verifiable Credentials within decentralized identity workflows.

Designed a serverless GraphQL API (TypeGraphQL + Apollo Client) integrating decentralized protocols across the app.

Collaborated with backend developers to align REST endpoints with SSI (Self-Sovereign Identity) standards.

Lead Frontend Engineer: Legendary Labs startup2021 – 2022

Owned the frontend application from browser code to DNS to cloud deployments.

Implemented a React frontend for a Solidity/Nest.js API.

Deployed a containerized solution to AWS, reducing DevOps overhead and increasing development iteration.

Applications Engineer: Definitive Healthcare2019 – 2021

Built the flagship Quick Search feature used by 90,000 clients, the company’s first full-stack React integration with a legacy .NET app.

Enhanced cross-product discoverability and sales conversions by surfacing relevant data across 20+ internal databases.

Developed REST APIs and SQL stored procedures to unify complex data sources and improve query performance.

Product Management Intern: SovosSummer 2018

Exercised Agile and Scrum methodologies for multiple enterprise products

Reviewed Epics and wrote user stories with entrance/acceptance criteria in JIRA

Participated in daily stand-ups, weekly sprint plannings, and backlog refinements

Quality Assurance Engineer: Instant Technologies2017 – 2018

Performed user testing of virtual help desk instant messaging services

Designed landing pages to optimize search results for specific keywords

Analyzed and reported metrics using Google AdWords and Google Analytics

Homeroom Teacher: Transformation Academy Shanghai2024 – 2025

Led a cross-cultural classroom of 20 students, applying structured communication and collaborative problem-solving strategies.

Achievements

  • Married a truly inspiring woman2024
  • Built this site from scratch2022
  • First-degree black belt in karate2011

Formal Education

BS, Business Admin: University of New Hampshire2015 – 2019

Studied Information Technology as a minor with the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Courses on web development, DBMS, coding in Python, internet protocols, and computer architecture

Studied Information Systems & Business Analytics with the Peter T. Paul School of Business and Economics

Courses on the roles technology play in modern businesses

Served executive roles for Information Systems Management Association student org

Worked as a teaching assistant for Management Information Systems course

Certificate, Mandarin: Beijing Language and Culture UniversityJuly 2025

Level A3 | 80 hours | College of Intensive Chinese Language Studies

Certificate, Mandarin: Beijing Language and Culture UniversityJanuary 2019

Level A1 | 80 hours | College of Intensive Chinese Language Studies