Curriculum Vitae

November 2023 – Present

• Owned product engineering, architecture, infrastructure, deployment, and production reliability as the company's sole engineer.
• Rebuilt the MVP into responsive artwork donation platform supporting ~$27.3M in uploaded artwork and 1,170+ donations.
• Connected artwork donors with recipient organizations, digitizing donations with e-signatures, shipping, payments, and notifications.
• Migrated the application from MongoDB to SQLite, eliminating managed-database costs, enforcing data integrity, and improving key page loads by ~10×.
• Consolidated services into one Go application and simplified AWS infrastructure, cutting costs by 60%.
• Built admin tools and lifecycle automation enabling non-technical staff to manage complex donation workflows.
• Implemented asynchronous workers for bulk uploads, metrics, report generation, and notifications.
• Mentored interns on Go backend and frontend development through code reviews and development best practices.

March 2023 – Present

• Building multimodal AI agent platform for coding, voice interaction, and scheduled automation for local and hosted LLMs (Go, SQLite).

April 2023 – November 2023

• Led incident response as analyst/coordinator during on-call rotations for critical services and infrastructure (AWS, Grafana, incident.io, Kubernetes, UNIX/Linux CLI utilities).
• Proactively identified and resolved site performance and security vulnerabilities impacting millions of users (browser and CLI tools).
• Built automated weekly status report generator delivering DORA/SRE metrics to leadership (Go, incident.io API, gnuplot).

January 2022 – October 2022

• Built API powering the company's cross-platform React Native app and enabling the platform's digital health services launch (Go).
• Established development infrastructure, build scripts, config, and containers, accelerating developer velocity (AWS, bash, podman).
• Designed PostgreSQL schema and foundational models that supported the platform's core healthcare workflows (Go, SQL).
• Integrated Health Gorilla API with FHIR protocol and patient matching for bidirectional healthcare data exchange (Go).
• Created API documentation and setup guides, reducing onboarding time and establishing technical standards for engineering team.
• Mentored junior engineers and interns on Go best practices, conducting code reviews to maintain code quality standards.

January 2018 – January 2022 Acquired by Aramark, May 2019.

• Built backend services enabling simultaneous cooking and delivery from proprietary vans, scaling to ~400K orders and $5M in revenue with 25-minute average delivery times (Go, MongoDB).
• Rearchitected infrastructure, achieving 99% AWS, 69% MongoDB, 85% CI/CD cost reductions while improving performance.
• Developed control panel providing unified interface for drivers, operations, marketing, and CS teams (Go, MongoDB, JS).
• Managed React Native app development, contributing refactors and bug fixes for smooth cross-platform ordering experience.
• Built inventory prediction engine, providing culinary team with data-driven forecasts, reducing food waste and stockouts (Go).
• Integrated backend with multiple university payment systems, allowing customers to pay with university meal plan credits (Go, SAML).
• Designed and shipped mealplan subscription system in three months, generating over $500K in revenue (Go, MongoDB).
• Created tools to assist engineering and operation teams, including an orders generator for driver training and load testing (Go).
• Maintained system reliability during live delivery operations, identifying and resolving critical application and infrastructure issues.
• Integrated APIs including AWS, BigQuery, Google Maps, Intercom, Samsara, Slack, Stripe, and Twilio.

August 2014 – July 2017

• Drafted speeches delivered at high-level events on public policy and international relations, including the Internet Governance Forum, the UN Secretary-General's High-level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport, and CEFC sponsored events on Sino-U.S. relations and sustainable development.
• Composed editorials for publications on sustainability, international relations, internet governance, and China's economic development.
• Assembled the preliminary rules and procedures for the award of a $1M energy grant.
• As Sherpa, supported Member of the UN Secretary-General's High-level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport; contributing to the group's internal discussions and final outlook report.
• Supported Member of the Internet Governance Forum's Multistakeholder Advisory Group, including the Group's guidance for the 11th Internet Governance Forum.

January 2016 – June 2016

• Drafted a private sector Commitment Letter to the Sustainable Development Goals, signed by dozens of businesses.
• Wrote the concept note, press release, M.C.'s script, and remarks for the UN Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development for the letter's signing and submission ceremony, held at the United Nations.

June 2013 – August 2013

• Researched and drafted legal memoranda in support of NYC Air Code revision, SPDES permit modifications, and compliance with state law and consent orders.
• Examined legal implications of railbanking proposal, drafted legal memoranda and intergovernmental agreement, and explained railbanking process and provided legal options to Bureau of Water Supply.
• Represented the City of New York at environmental administrative hearings, wrote and filed appeals to administrative court decisions, conferenced with opposing counsel and pro se respondents.

August 2009 – June 2013

• Trained in the employment of rockets, military explosives, dynamic breaching, infantry and anti-armor operations.
• Supervised, trained, and mentored junior Marines.
• Professional achievements: meritorious promotion to Corporal (December 2011), "Excellent" (4.7/5.0) proficiency and conduct marks, Certificate of Commendation (July 2011), completed Scout-Sniper Platoon indoctrination (July 2011), high scorer on Javelin anti-armor missile certification (December 2010), multiple High Physical Fitness Awards.
• Training achievements: Company Honor Graduate and Platoon Honor Graduate (Recruit Training, November 2009), Meritorious Mast (School of Infantry, April 2010), "Excellent" (4.8/5.0) proficiency and conduct marks. Consistently placed in leadership positions: Platoon Guide (Basic Marine Platoon, Recruit Training), Assault Section Squad Leader (School of Infantry).

January 2013 – April 2013

• Researched and drafted legal memoranda reviewing the Clean Air Act, EPA manuals and regulations, Environmental Appeals Board decisions, and academic literature.
• Examined the use of Prevention of Significant Deterioration Best Available Control Technology analysis to promote climate change adaptation.
• Attended meetings for the development of EPA Region 2 climate change adaptation strategies.

September 2012 – December 2012

• Prepared preliminary draft of Secretary-General's report on Rio+20 proposal for High Commissioner for Future Generations.
• Researched academic literature, stakeholder submissions, case law and statutes.
• Collaborated with NGO directors, political figures, and judges across the globe for research and assessment of the proposal.
• Reviewed legal and political implications, highlighting support for and vulnerabilities of the proposal.
• Summarized experiences of national examples of similar offices.
• Proposed recommendations on possible responses to the proposal, in the context of the existing UN system.

October 2022 – February 2023 (W1 2022)

October 2017 – January 2018

October 2016 – August 2017

August 2011 – May 2014

Bar Admission, NY 2015

August 2005 – May 2009

August 2001 – May 2005