Incurator
Co-Founder, Product
Aug 2024 – PresentHybrid
- Co-founding an AI-powered platform that gives music artists the tools to take control of their careers — from production and marketing to contracts and discovery through real industry mentors
- Leading all engineering, building the full-stack product from the ground up including AI-driven features for mastering, auto-tune, stem separation, video editing, and personalized 24/7 AI assistants
- Owning operations, product strategy, and business development — wearing every hat from infrastructure to artist onboarding to mentor program design
- Architecting a merit-based Music Funnel that connects emerging talent with seasoned industry professionals for label opportunities with zero upfront cost
Sincero
Co-Founder & Software Engineer Consultant
Feb 2018 – PresentRemote
- Developed a super app for the Longevity Economy to help them manage their home, productivity, and finances
- Created a React dashboard for an AgTech ERP app and squashed hundreds of bugs that saved them thousands of dollars, amongst other things
- Built a Node worker for a blockchain FinTech startup that listens to smart contract events on Ethereum and kept their external Firebase up-to-date with the latest contract state
- Collaborated with a crypto startup to create a Node API and two consumer-facing React applications powered by the API: a back-tester dashboard tool, which helped users verify the accuracy of past alerts and an onboarding tool to help users build the optimal alerts package
- Built an analytics React dashboard app for a hotel management team in order to help them operate more efficiently
Meta
Application Engineer
Feb 2017 – Feb 2018San Francisco, CA
- Built a Thrift API for different product teams, such as Facebook Messenger, Oculus and Building 8, to screen and onboard thousands of paying users in real-time, while saving the Legal team thousands of dollars in costs and fees
- Worked on the front-end (React-Native) and back-end (GraphQL/MySQL/AJAX) of an iOS POS application for the Facebook restaurants around campus that allowed thousands of employees to place food orders efficiently and accurately, while also reducing the amount of order errors by more than 30%
- Completed a crucial and previously unsolved order ticket printing feature for the same POS application that required collaborating with key stakeholders, which helped restaurants on campus to increase productivity by more than 15%
- Created a case management tool using React/PHP/GraphQL to allow thousands of employees to submit compliance cases, which in turn eliminated hundreds of hours of manual work for the Legal team and increased their case completion rate by over 50%
- Ported over a cumbersome legacy Oracle trade application into a lightweight, easy-to-use React application, with a PHP/GraphQL back-end, that allowed the Trade Compliance team at Facebook to operate more smoothly and effectively
Freelance
Software Engineer
Jun 2016 – Jan 2017San Francisco, CA
- Took a sabbatical to become a software engineer by putting in over 900 hours in Hack Reactor
- Built several full-stack applications, including a virtual reality Instagram-like app, Chrome extension HTML markup app, restaurant rating aggregation app and a boggle-like game app, amongst others
Mixpanel
Lead Qualification Representative
Aug 2015 – Jun 2016San Francisco, CA
- Prospected executives at Fortune 500 companies and booked appointments that added over $150k to the sales pipeline
- Enhanced the lead generation process by scrubbing and qualifying all inbound leads for routing to suitable sales reps
- Assisted top Account Executives in acquiring more customers through cold-calling and emailing outreach campaigns
Morgan Stanley
Wealth Management Intern
Mar 2015 – Jul 2015Chicago, IL
- Generated hundreds of leads for the Trailhead Retirement Planning Group by cold-calling and qualifying thousands of prospects weekly
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Management Trainee Intern
May 2014 – Feb 2015Chicago, IL
- Demonstrated the capacity to sell insurance packages to increase the overall profit of the Lincoln Park branch
- Provided consistent and impeccable customer service that was measured through Enterprise's Service Quality Index
- Drastically improved communication and people skills by assisting hundreds of customers through face-to-face and phone interactions
Miami HEAT Group
Marketing Intern
May 2013 – Aug 2013Miami, FL
- Proactively managed all social media outlets utilized by AmericanAirlines Arena and created visual content for sharing
- Crafted strategic campaigns that helped strengthen the AmericanAirlines Arena brand by drastically increasing its social media following by more than 13,000 followers combined and selling over 3,000 tickets for shows and concerts