You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.
Full-stack software engineer with strong production experience building enterprise SaaS platforms, AI-powered developer tools, and scalable backend systems. Proven ability to design systems end-to-end, optimize performance at scale, and ship reliable features in fast-moving teams. Experienced across React/TypeScript, Node.js, FastAPI, databases, and LLM-driven agents.
Professional Experience
Oct 2025 – Present
- •Designed and rebuilt the organization administration dashboard with a modular, tab-driven architecture, optimizing data aggregation and reducing admin workflow load times by 60%+
- •Reduced critical API response times by up to 40× by improving polling logic, introducing intelligent caching, and optimizing MongoDB queries for high-traffic compliance dashboards
- •Built an AI-powered bulk task ingestion system for Excel/CSV uploads (thousands of rows) with automated column mapping, schema inference, and validation, cutting compliance task creation from hours to minutes
July 2025 – Sept 2025
- •Built a database automation agent powering Orchids' vibecoding IDE, enabling schema edits, migrations, API generation, and backend automation directly from natural-language prompts
- •Designed and implemented self-authored Next.js frontend components and templates, establishing a scalable UI foundation for the platform
- •Architected and shipped an LLM Arena–style model benchmarking platform to compare frontend code generation across models, including a live leaderboard powered by an Elo-based ranking algorithm
January 2025 – July 2025
- •Led product and system design for a TikTok-style AI video tagging PWA, owning UX, frontend architecture, and performance strategy end-to-end
- •Designed and built three new NestJS microservices to handle points management and core platform workflows, improving scalability and separation of concerns
- •Owned infrastructure and delivery pipelines, configuring CI/CD for NestJS services on Ubuntu VPS, managing API gateways, server provisioning, and production rollouts
June 2024 – Dec 2024
- •Implemented role-based access control (RBAC) across the points admin dashboard, ensuring secure and auditable access
- •Designed and developed marketing websites for multiple Monet Work web applications, improving product positioning and conversion
- •Took full ownership of the end-to-end waitlist program, from landing pages and data capture to backend orchestration and rollout execution
Oct 2024 – Dec 2024
- •Enhanced on-chain data fetch, boosting user engagement 25%
- •Delivered pixel-perfect Next.js UI with 95% fidelity from Figma
- •Integrated DeFi smart contracts with Ethers.js & Thirdweb, optimizing transaction costs 10%
Achievements
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Stack I use
Technologies I work with to build products that solve real problems
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