Oct 2021 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Y Combinator W22
• Raised $3.2M. Started with a digital will for the ethereum blockchain to protect assets upon end-of-life. We weren't able to get solid traction. We pivoted around a lot and ended up building in AI developer tooling/design.
• Our product Bifrost was the very first Figma-to-code tool powered by LLMs, gaining over 1M impressions on launch.
• Learned a lot of lessons:
• Focus is crucial to being successful. You win by taking advantage of compound interest on your learnings from being in the same space over many iterations.
• Become an expert in a space and build there. Don't follow the changing markets - establish a direction and have the grit to execute on it.
• Have a strong opinion about what you want the world to look like in 5 years and build iteratively toward it. Learn from customers to align yourself on that vision.
• Charge people for your products early, learn from the people who pay so you're aligned with the right users.
• Sales is an uphill battle until you have solid PMF. Do whatever is in your power to ensure people have a good experience, productize, and build toward pmf.

Apr 2021 – Sep 2021 · 5 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• itsyourbday lets you create the most unique birthday gift ever. Itsyourbday runs on its own without me now - have hired out for bug fixes and customer support.
• Exponential MoM growth with $0 marketing spend.
• Released the MVP in just 4 days, getting 100+ users within a week.
• Built the product using Next.js and React. Designed product in Figma.
• Monetized through group-gifting for personalized items.

Jul 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Chaa club is an artisan D2C food & beverage business I started during the pandemic. We serve chaa (chai) flavored ice cream, chaa nitro cold brew, and much more.
• Generated 100,000+ impressions & $1,000+ in revenue on launch week with $0 marketing spend.
• Sold units out of a retail location and opened a franchise out of state.
• Remained profitable by scaling operation incrementally.

Nov 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led end-to-end product launches with a team of designers and engineers.
• Developed roadmap and growth strategy, increasing users from 500 to over 50,000.
• Conducted user interviews to uncover pain points and de-risk feature releases.
• Utilized data analysis with SQL to build dashboards and guide product decisions.
• Designed prototypes on figma to present flows to leadership, customers, and design.

Aug 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led integration with Well’s Fargo by coordinating external & internal development, allowing for increased speed and stability.
• Streamlined customer support by building a responder system based on importance & quality, resulting in increased response time and CSAT.
• Produced metrics-based system for measuring accuracy of vendors by auditing responses and giving training, allowing for a scalable support model.
• Represented brand internationally by working in four countries over a month.

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Constructed migration from .NET charting library to Highcharts for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, resulting in highly increased load times and stronger extendibility.
• Programmed an addition to CRM charts that bypassed security for certain business cases, allowing the visualizations to be embedded in external webpages (blogs, landing pages, etc).

May 2015 – Aug 2015 · 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Engineered visual dashboard for Hadoop using D3 and angular, which was served to Microsoft and enabled data scientists to quickly get meaningful information.
• Developed a search and filtering feature for E-books using C# MVC and MongoDB, allowing for children in 3rd world countries to access books through “lit 4 life”.
• Developed visualization feature showing data center health by time, based on visuals of location.

Nov 2014 – Jan 2015 · 2 mos · Fremont, California

• Photobiscuits give your memories depth by 3D printing them on to sandstone. In no light, Photobiscuits appear as embossed stone, but when held under a light source they transform in to full color photographs in three dimensions.
• Medical Edge is focused on building 3D models from MRI and CT scan data. The company can analyse patients and print out models of their organs.
• Built automatic system for creating custom 3D printed lithophanes and 3D models from MRI data
• Programmed marketplace website for buying custom lithophanes

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 · 2 mos · San Diego, California

• Full stack development for Get Data Enabling Services.
• Developed front end tax import widgets to streamline the process of importing existing documents from financial institutions.
• Designed a new process for data & image capture through a mobile platform using javascript, html, tomcat, java, and responsive CSS design.
• Developed backend services related to mapping import information obtained through financial institutions and OCR to an XML format readable by TurboTax online

Mar 2014 – Oct 2014 · 7 mos · Mountain View, California

• 500 Startups Batch 11. Studypool is an online academic platform. A place for students to get help with and solve their academic questions. We thrive to make this process as efficient as possible.
• Expanded company as the fifth employee to over 30,000 users averaging ~$30,000 monthly revenue
• Developed and maintained website with PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Node.js
• Designed & implemented mobile application & experience for Android & IOS
• Managed small teams of developers & contractors while planning marketing strategies

Jun 2013 – Dec 2013 · 6 mos · San Diego, California

• Developmental Resource on Consumer Financial Services Platform:
• Engineered back-end logic to Intuit products, such as TurboTax (28 million customers!) & Quicken, in development, performance engineering, and quality assurance.
• Projects have been executed as much as 25,000 times a minute. Developed long-lasting code that should still be in use by TurboTax customers years from now.
• Worked extensively with Big-Data Engineering and Service-Oriented Architecture.
• Designed systems using interface APIs & high level Java architecture to connect service clients to large databases.
• Developed services with RESTful and POX capability.
• Built usability & design skills conducting costumer interviews to gain insight on new products.
• Worked using Agile sprints while communicating with a team of 15.