Experience

Backend Engineer Square (Block)

December 2022 - Present | San Francisco, CA (Remote)

  • I'm working on the Hardware Shop team helping to make our online shop better for sellers.
  • Was part of the effort to bring financing and installment payment functionality to three additional countries.
  • Helped implement subscription plan functionality for hardware and software bundles.

ruby (rails), javascript (react), mysql

Backend Web Engineer Linden Lab

November 2018 - December 2022 | San Francisco, CA (Remote)

  • Implemented new features to allow users to self-service and reduce support load. They include account reactivation and partial payments.
  • Part of the effort to update our billing application to accommodate new payment service providers.
  • Led effort to migrate transactional emails to 3rd party service and update them from plaintext to HTML localized layouts.
  • Updated our team's web applications to record analytics metrics.
  • Contributed to the company's effort to Dockerize our team's multi-faceted web applications and migrate them to the AWS cloud.
  • Developed internal APIs leveraged by both our web applications and our Viewer desktop application related to MFA.

python (django), php, javascript, ruby (rails), perl, mysql, docker, aws

Web Developer Brighton Collectibles

July 2016 - November 2018 | City of Industry, CA

  • Wrote document management system for document distribution to stores.
  • Designed and implemented media distribution application to enable Marketing to share social and printable media with partners.
  • Developed and maintained RESTful APIs that were critical to customer-facing and internal business applications.
  • Developed scripts for the sanitation and import of data into company databases as well as the processes to monitor them.
  • Contributed to the planning and design of database schema to ensure normalized data with flexibility to grow.

php, javascript (vue.js), mysql

NOC Technician & Developer Forever 21

February 2015 - July 2016 | Los Angeles, CA

  • Developed NOC monitoring dashboard and backend to support applications.
  • Wrote server scripts that integrated 3rd party services into central monitoring.
  • Designed system for report generation of team performance metrics.
  • Administered Jira company-wide and implemented departments' project requirements.

c, python, php, javascript, mysql

IT Technician Forever 21

September 2014 - February 2015 | Los Angeles, CA

  • Remedied company-wide payment system outage by writing hotfix script deployed to 1000+ store servers in 500+ locations.
  • Wrote Windows application for Store Support team that partially automated ticket creation.

batch, autoit

Education

California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB)


  • B.S. Computer Science (2021)

Los Angeles City College


  • A.S. Computer Science (2018)
  • A.A. Computer Information Systems (2016)