Software Engineer (Mentorship) at Akkio

Formed and led Akkio's frontend team, establishing TypeScript, testing, and state-management patterns for junior engineers and mentoring as the team grew. Redesigned frontend data flow and testing conventions, reducing weekly debugging effort by 8 hours. Shipped ML-powered features for non-technical users, focusing on legibility.

Senior Frontend Engineer at Chess.com (ChessKid / Chess.com)

Rebuilt scalable enterprise features for ChessKid (10M+ users) and Chess.com (250M+ users), automating registration and bulk operations. Led development of a real-time Classroom UI using WebSockets, optimizing shared board performance and responsiveness. Built a CI/CD pipeline deploying PR branches to 8 QA environments, saving ~5 minutes per deploy for the engineering team. Optimized chessboard render pipeline using layered canvas and Web Workers for low-end devices on slow 3G connections. Standardized TypeScript structures across the V3 codebase, aligning frontend interfaces with service schemas.

Full Stack Engineer at Crwizard

Designed and built a distributed data pipeline (Apache Beam, GCP Dataflow) for large-scale XML ingestion and cleaning. Architected a Redis caching layer to eliminate redundant processing.