Worked full-stack on eight-person team for the educator platform while contributing to documentation, performance, and culture working groups.

• Optimized highest runtime queries by 95% as team SQL expert
• Wrote integration tests, unit tests, and docs for GraphQL services
• Presented 3 proposals at engineering design review in 6 months
• Converted large portion of essential code to TypeScript while fixing bugs
• Engaged in on-call rotation, educator interviews, pair programming

Architected and maintained open-source linguistic database and website for exploring historic Cherokee manuscripts, a model project for NEU.

• Won Data and Digital Storytelling Award at RISE Expo (2021)
• Published technical article in Modern Language Journal (expected 2023)
• Mentored 4 co-op students in full-stack engineering and code reviews
• Pioneered Rust back-end, ingesting language data from spreadsheets
• Automated database and server deployments to AWS with Terraform
• Prototyped collaborative translation interface to meet community need

Collaborated with MIT Media Lab to design and publish accessible React website providing educational film and articles on deepfake technology.

• Won Emmy in Outstanding Interactive Media (2020)
• Nominated for Webby Net Art Award (2020)
• Invented complex glitch effects responding to user input in pure CSS
• Deployed statically localized versions in English, Danish, and Chinese

Contributed to spatial audio libraries, iOS apps (Swift), and websites.

• Designed client-side audio mixing solution, reducing server load by 90%
• Built automatic local cache to maintain playback for offline users

Overhauled search back-end with GraphQL service (Go) replacing legacy API (Java). Reduced codebase by 10% and vendor data ingestion time by 50%.

Developed architectural model browser (React, TypeScript) on cross-functional team, reviewing code across teams to scale shared API client.