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.
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.
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsShopifySEO / AEO / GEOLangGraph/LangChainSupabasePostgreSQLAWSDockerFigmaREST APIsCI/CDIllustrationDesignPrototyping