Experience

     I have had the opportunity to build software, products, and companies with talented teams all across the United States.

• December 2022 - August 2025

  

  Trigo

  Co-founder & CTO - New York, NY

  • - Built the first API for rent data, consisting of hybrid CRM & call center software, proptech integrations, and AI workflow automations.
  • - Acquired by Snappt in August 2025.
  • - Went from product idea to $100k annualized revenue in one year.
  • - Graduated YC W23 and raised a couple million.
  • - Built the MVP solo, then built an engineering team with 100% retention.
  • - Owned engineering, product, operations, compliance, and inside sales.
  • - Hired tens of contractors and managed a call center. Retained contractors over 1 year on average.
  • - Drove SOC 2 compliance, audits, and certification.

• March 2021 - October 2022

  

  ATM.com

  Software Engineer & Engineering Manager - Newport Beach, CA

  • - Managed and led the 5-person backend engineering team in a ~40 employee startup.
  • - Owned team OKRs, planning, backlog, deadlines, operations, processes, communications, development, and recruiting.
  • - Architected and implemented greenfield adtech systems while maintaining preexisting applications.
  • - Proposed, designed, and built the adtech data model, eligibility system, targeting system, data warehouse & ETL event system, affiliate network & MMP integrations, and postback service.
  • - Championed a team split, a lightweight 2-week agile process, monitoring & alerting systems, oncall, and a ticket-based support process.
  • - Proposed and evangelized engineering-external processes including an advertising partner integration & retention playbook, customer support issue escalation, ad operations, and quarterly planning schedules.
  • - Recruited and hired high performers at the junior, mid-level, and principal levels. Directed goal-setting and review meetings during 1-on-1s. Obtained promotions and raises for teammates.
  • - Simultaneously acted as a full member of the product management team. Maintained the engineering backlog, identified quarterly initiatives with the product team, wrote product requirement documents, planned & delegated project work, managed project progress, orchestrated releases, handled internal & external communications, and tracked results.

• October 2018 - March 2021

  

  Amazon

  Software Development Engineer I & II - Seattle, WA

  • - Maintained a machine-learning-backed advertisement optimization engine with 10,000+ TPS at ~200ms p99.9 contributing nearly a billion dollars of annual value to Amazon.
  • - Led the engineering designs for a new ms-backed incentive system.
  • - Responsible for solo monthly pager duty. Promptly fixed multiple production issues without support.
  • - Designed and implemented a migration of the service’s core data model to improve system flexibility.
  • - Migrated 2 databases, 13 code packages, 4 APIs, and 200,000+ S3 objects without issue in production.
  • - Designed and implemented two new types of ML models to address the service’s cold-start problem.
  • - Partially designed and implemented a hyperparameter A/B testing system on live production data without disruption.
  • - Mentored the 2020 intern for the 16-person MAPLE team.
  • - Led MAPLE in ticket resolutions for 2020. Submitted and reviewed the most code reviews of team SDE 1s in 2019.
  • - Implemented a design meeting notetaking system to promote SEA – BLR communication.
  • - Promoted to SDE II in Q3 2020.

• January 2018 - October 2018

  

  MeridianLink

  Software Development Engineer - Costa Mesa, CA

  • - Engineered various features and bug fixes for MeridianLink’s loan origination web application, LPQ.
  • - Researched and implemented an OCR solution for auto-populating loan application fields.
  • - Division owner for caching (ASP.NET, Couchbase, and Redis). Solved longstanding latency issues with CB upgrade.
  • - Administrator for meridianlink.com promotional website. Point of contact for marketing on website improvements.
  • - Leveraged React, ASP.NET 4, VB.NET, JS, Bootstrap, MSSQL, jQuery, and more to maintain LPQ.

• Summer 2017

  

  Bloomberg L.P.

  Software Engineering Intern - New York, NY

  • - Developed front and back end features for the options backtesting function of the Bloomberg Terminal.
  • - Integrated JS and C++ run thousands of times daily into a large, safety critical software architecture.
  • - Facilitated a technical demo between teams sharing redundant features discovered while exploring the company.
  • - Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) certified

• Summer 2016

  

  Valassis

  Software Engineering Intern - Seattle, WA

  • - Owned, designed, documented, and implemented an SDK providing convenient access to the Valassis Mobile Offers API.
  • - Acquired professional mobile development skills with Java and Objective-C using Android Studio and Xcode.
  • - Employed the Scrum methodology with an international team coordinated through Slack and Rally.

• Summer 2015

  

  Experian

  Software Development Intern - Costa Mesa, CA

  • - Created Java business logic code and bash shell scripts to assist the Decision Analytics team of Experian.
  • - Acquired first professional exposure to essential software development tools like Unix, Vim, and Git.
  • - Communicated with a project team spread across multiple geographies, leveraging collaborative tools and techniques.