Senior Software Engineer - KidStrong

When I started as the second hire on KidStrong's technology team, coaches at various KidStrong centers across the United States were still using paper cards to track kids' progress throughout their time at KidStrong. Later that year, we shipped "KidStrong Coach," a full-stack application built using Firebase that allowed coaches to manage their class, track kid progress, and give out awards. Our stack also integrated with an existing CRM, allowing kid information to flow directly into our ecosystem via ETL pipelines.

After we hired more developers, I transitioned away from being a full-stack engineer to being the lead of the backend team, continuing to address the needs of several of our client applications and partner integrations. We incrementally migrated away from Cloud Functions and towards Cloud Run, moving from TypeScript in favor of Rust and GraphQL. Although our domain did not strictly require extreme performance, we had several developers that knew Rust and we appreciated the correctness that Rust's type system brings.

Software Engineer - Armature Studio

Armature is where I fell in writing software with a focus on performance. Although I was a generalist, I spent a fair amount of time working with graphics and audio and learned a great deal from the talented engineers there.

I've come to think that the time I spent optimizing for GPUs has helped immensely with regards to writing performant backend code. A lot of the same abstract concepts and patterns apply to both domains!

I also spent some time managing our CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, which was a great experience.

Software Engineer - Tango Me

• Previously: Junior Software Engineer

• Previously: Software Engineer Intern

Tango is where I got my start! Note that I was a part of a satellite office in Austin, TX - I didn't work on the main video chatting app.