Summary
Full-stack engineer with 14+ years shipping product across startups and Meta Reality Labs. Strong across React, React Native, TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, and AWS, with recent depth in AI/LLM applications (RAG, tool calling, embeddings, vector search).
Skills
Core —
Design systems, React.js, React Native, TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, AWS.
AI/LLM —
RAG pipelines, LLM tool calling, vector retrieval, multimodal embeddings, GPU batch inference.
Work Experience
KickDB LLC
2024 — PresentFounder & Engineer
- Shipped AI-powered hotel guest services (phone + chat) with RAG and LLM tool calling for PMS/Oracle OHIP integration. Real-time WebSocket + Redis chat layer with human handoff.
- Building a privacy-first AI journaling app (React Native/Expo) with voice dictation and encrypted offline storage (SQLCipher). In-app OTA system to hot-swap PR builds for rapid iteration.
- Shipped Solefeed: production AI search platform with multimodal embeddings, vector retrieval, and GPU-based batch inference for product intelligence.
Meta
2018 — 2024Team Lead / Frontend Engineer
- Created the Horizon Mobile Design System (+.5% time spent). Persuaded leadership to create headcount, migrated 10k+ callsites via codemods, and drove adoption by hundreds of engineers.
- Shipped Light Mode, raised Quest BLE pairing success from 90% to 99%, and earned a VR QA org award. Redesigned on-call.
- Co-created VR App Referrals ($1M+ MRR). Designed the GraphQL schema/client, implemented RN UI, and ran in-app/push experiments. Mentored an intern to a top rating + return offer. Hackathon winner: Passport to Metaverse.
- Founding engineer for Capacity UI team. Shipped autoscaling/load-testing UIs; conducted user interviews; presented at Core Systems All-Hands (~1k attendees).
- Created Meta LA Coffee Club (200+ members, 30+ monthly). Founded FBNYC frontend community. Mentored every frontend engineer in FBNY bootcamp (2019–2020).
City of Austin Innovation Office
2018Design, Technology, and Innovation Fellow
- Built open-source flood map and alerts using React/Mapbox GL/GraphQL/Postgraphile/AWS.
Ordoro
2013 — 2017Team Lead / Full-Stack Engineer
- Led frontend redesign: Knockout to React/Redux, thunks to sagas, modernized tooling; authored Things I Wish I Knew About Redux (179 r/javascript upvotes, 500+ Medium claps, listed in Redux docs).
- Drove the roadmap, ran biweekly UX Reviews, hired/mentored engineers. Backend/ops: Python integrations, Elasticsearch analytics; migrated to Docker.
Education
University of South Florida
2013Bachelor of Science in Marketing, Minor in Computer Science (3.83 GPA)
Extracurriculars & Involvement
Nice Kicks —
Created sneaker news app (React Native/Expo) with 100K+ MAU.
Open Austin —
Co-led Code for America brigade. Helped launch realtime bus GPS for Austin's transit.
Earlier Experience
Createch Consulting
2011 — 2013Founder / Web & Mobile Application Developer
SPARK
2012Full Stack Web Developer
USF Student Government
2010 — 2011Web Coordinator