neil

experience

AlwaysNew York, NY

Freelance: Web Design & Development

  • I build & maintain custom websites end-to-end, leading clients through: ideation, creative direction, design, development, and DNS migration.
  • Shipped a fully custom headless storefront for fashion brand Lala Blue (lalablue.com): Shopify Storefront API for products, cart, and checkout; Flodesk for marketing email; Web3Forms for customer contact.
  • Built a custom CMS behind a password-protected admin route where clients can update their sites' content without a developer in the loop.
  • Continuously optimize for SEO and AEO/GEO, applying search fundamentals cemented through enterprise SEO work at Conductor.
  • Own each site post-launch in engaged client relationships — meeting regularly and iterating quickly on feedback.
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Mar 2025 — Oct 2025New York, NY

Conductor

Sales Development Representative

  • Generate 30+ qualified meetings with enterprise leaders per quarter through targeted outbound and strategic account research.
  • Leverage a technical background to articulate Conductor's AI-driven search intelligence platform to both technical and non-technical stakeholders & customers — translating API capabilities into immediate business value.
  • Collaborate with Solutions Architects on tailored product demos and pre-sales consultations, bridging customer needs and technical solutions.
Jul 2024 — Oct 2024Newport Beach, CA

Pacific Life

Software Engineer

  • Optimized APIs to improve response time by 15% through minimizing database roundtrips and reducing aggregate function overhead.
  • Consolidated AWS Lambda functions, reducing infrastructure footprint and simplifying deployment complexity.
  • Wrote robust unit tests and led in-house QA to ensure code stability before production.
Jul 2023 — Sep 2023Irvine, CA

UC Irvine — Texera Project

Undergraduate Researcher

  • Collaborated with Professor Chen Li on Texera — a cloud-based no-code platform universalizing data analytics and machine learning.
  • Built new operator types in Scala, expanding the platform's visualization capabilities and broadening its value for non-technical end users.
2021 — 2022Santa Cruz, CA

Tech4Good Laboratory

Web Developer

  • Led a 4-person team to design and build responsive web pages, lifting measured user experience metrics by 11%.
  • Translated Figma designs into pixel-perfect, production-ready components using CSS flexbox, establishing responsive layout patterns across the site.
skills
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsShopifySEO / AEO / GEOLangGraph/LangChainSupabasePostgreSQLAWSDockerFigmaREST APIsCI/CDIllustrationDesignPrototyping