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About
Full-stack developer with 6+ years building production applications using TypeScript, React, Node.js, and cloud infrastructure. Strong focus on API design, database optimization, and developer experience. Open-source contributor with 3K+ GitHub stars across personal projects.
Experience
Staff Software Engineer · Figma
Jan 2023 → PresentSan Francisco, CA
- Architect and lead developer for Figma's plugin marketplace backend, serving 50K+ plugins and 5M+ monthly installs.
- Designed a new API gateway that reduced p99 latency from 800ms to 120ms while handling 100K+ requests per minute.
- Led the migration from REST to GraphQL federation, improving developer productivity and reducing over-fetching by 70%.
- Mentored 4 engineers and established coding standards adopted across the Platform Engineering organization.
Software Engineer · Plaid
Jun 2020 → Dec 2022San Francisco, CA
- Built and maintained financial data APIs processing 1B+ API calls per month with 99.99% uptime.
- Developed an internal developer portal that reduced API onboarding time from 2 weeks to 2 hours for partner integrations.
- Implemented real-time data streaming pipelines using Kafka and Flink for transaction monitoring across 12K+ financial institutions.
Junior Software Engineer · Twitch
Jul 2018 → May 2020San Francisco, CA
- Developed features for the Twitch Creator Dashboard used by 9M+ streamers including analytics, alerts, and stream management tools.
- Built a real-time chat moderation system handling 15M+ messages daily using WebSocket and distributed pub/sub architecture.
Skills
Backend
Node.jsPythonPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisGraphQLREST APIs
Frontend
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSVue.js
DevOps
AWSDockerKubernetesGitHub ActionsTerraformVercelDatadog
Projects
Open Source — fastql
- Created a lightweight GraphQL schema builder for Node.js with 2,100+ GitHub stars and featured in JavaScript Weekly.
Education
UC Berkeley · B.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
2014 → 2018Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate · MongoDB Certified Developer Associate