Designed and built the studio’s flagship product, Cool Stuff, an app for saving links. Built a distributed SQLite-based API, with <20ms response times worldwide. Built fastapi-resources, a FastAPI library for building JSON:API compliant REST APIs, reducing boilerplate by 4x. Built the iOS and web apps using React Native, featuring a high-performance animation system with 60+fps animations. Built an ML-based semantic search system supporting intuitive human-readable searches.

Second engineering hire. Helped onboard and mentor seven engineers. Established the core engineering architectural patterns, increasing test coverage and code reuse. Led an API refactor, decreasing response time by 5x. Created the public JSON API, Typescript SDKs, and webhook-based event system used for integrations with many customers. Led a product-wide refactor using a new design system, simultaneously increasing React render performance by 3x.

Designed an in-house graph-based authoring format that powered interactive lessons, allowing unique learning experiences for each student. Built a real-time, collaborative course editor to meet the production team’s rapid course development schedule. Built the iOS and Android apps used by thousands of students with React Native.

Taught a 3-month introduction to web development course to 20+ students.

Hired several engineers. Led design and development of the enterprise-level data management platform that managed data for thousands of customers. Built an advanced ML-based predictive analytics system for churn prediction.

Started the web product team, hired 3 engineers, and led development of the React-based product. Built many of core platform APIs that powered the mobile apps.

Built and oversaw development of the shot-review system, used by Hollywood film directors and VFX supervisors to review work-in-progress on movies such as Guardians of the Galaxy.