Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

Feb 2024 – Oct 2024 · 8 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

• Lead product eng on the <20 person team that led the company to profitability and acquisition.

Sep 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

• Today, over 100 million Americans don't want or can't get a credit card... and we understand why! Credit cards come with cons. Like overspending, high-interest rates, inaccessibility, and mountains of debt.
• But a great credit score can change lives, especially with important long-term goals like securing a housing mortgage or getting the best possible repayment plan on your big purchases. Despite this, there are very few credit-building alternatives. Enter Extra.
• Our mission is to create a safer, more accessible credit experience with the ease and predictability of a debit card. With Extra, you can relax as you work towards your long-term goals and avoid the pitfalls and traps of a credit card—no credit checks, no interest rates, and no hidden fees.

Jun 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Altro (YC S20, Acquired) is a free credit service helping people build their financial future through recurring payments and subscriptions that they are already paying for.
• Founding platform engineer. Built our dev lifecycle that scaled from <10 employees to a 60+ team.

Aug 2020 – May 2021 · 9 mos

• Part of a small team of experts building the systems that connect Tesla and our customers to their cars. The team specializes in IoT communications, including being in charge of every remote interaction with customer vehicles (remote controls, remote diagnostics, vehicle telemetry for self-learning Autopilot algorithms, APIs for mobile apps, etc.).

Jan 2020 – Aug 2020 · 7 mos

• Invented new software internally that changed the way the company designs wire harness technology for the latest and greatest car models. Built and maintained tools that are used daily by hundreds of engineers internally. Worked in the full stack using Go, Python, and Typescript (StencilJS).
• Re-established how the team deployed software to now use a CI/CD environment run by Jenkins, and deployed the environment to Kubernetes. Paved the way for a new microservice architecture by developing system critical software using gRPC and Protobuf.

Aug 2019 – Dec 2019 · 4 mos

• Developed an attendance tracking system that would account for over 4,000 undergraduate students within the school using Go and MySQL.

Jun 2019 – Oct 2019 · 4 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• First crack at a tech job. Fun times, learned a lot!

Aug 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Los Angeles, California, Estados Unidos

• Troubleshot various technology issues within the office. Coordinated other student volunteers, and help develop programs for developing communities in Los Angeles. Organized the financial and clerical work for the organization.