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About

Software engineer based in Vancouver. I care about systems that are fast, observable, and pleasant to maintain. I like TypeScript, clean APIs, and tools that respect your time.

Experience

AWS 2021 — present
SDE

Building serverless systems and LLM-powered evaluation infrastructure for Amazon Connect Contact Lens.

AWS 2020
SDE Intern

Designed a scalable fault-tolerant backend monitoring system in Node.js and TypeScript for Contact Lens.

Canoo 2019
Software Tools Intern

Built a software release management tool in React, TypeScript, Python, and Flask for 10+ vehicle components.

Hack the North 2019
Organizer

Built web experiences with React and TypeScript for one of the world's largest hackathons — 30k visitors, 3M req/month.

StackAdapt 2019
SWE Intern

Implemented customization features on an ad platform managing 3000+ campaigns with Ruby on Rails, React, and Redux.

Monogram 2018
Software Developer Intern

Optimized performance and size for a Qt application in C++ and photo-editing software plugins.

Stack

Languages

TypeScriptPythonGo

Frontend

ReactAstroTailwind CSS

Backend

AWS LambdaDynamoDBSQS/SNS

Tools

GitDockerTerraform

Education

BASc Computer Engineering — University of Waterloo, class of 2021.

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