I build things for the web.
Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in client-side engineering at Meta, Microsoft, and high-growth startups. Currently building high-performance UI foundations as a Founding Engineer at Lightfield.
2025 — Now
Founding Engineer
Architected core CRM views (Table, Kanban, List) and design system using virtualization to handle 1M+ records at 60fps. Optimized Interaction to Next Paint (INP) using the Scheduler API, and migrated build tooling to Biome to boost local dev speed by 10x and cut CI build times by 75%.
2022 — 25
Senior Software Engineer
Designed and implemented Y.js (CRDT) collaborative document editor with real-time UI synchronization. Reduced client-side bundle size by 50% and optimized GraphQL response times by 90%, resulting in a 15% increase in user retention.
2021 — 22
Senior Software Engineer
Architected Instagram's first native checkout bridge, establishing standard cross-app commerce UI integration patterns for Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Prototyped next-gen React Native rendering systems (ReMSYS).
2020 — 21
Software Engineer
Co-led company-wide accessible React UI component library adoption across 6 product teams. Designed and built 'Signing Insights' document telemetry dashboard using React, TypeScript, and D3.js.
2016 — 20
Software Engineer
Designed 20+ accessible (a11y) UI components for the Azure Portal Design System, utilized by thousands of portal extensions. Engineered the Portal SDK, custom hosting layers, and streaming response architectures.
2011 — 13
CTO & Co-founder
Architected a real-time SPA utilizing Node.js, Socket.io, and Redis. Engineered zero-downtime automated deployment systems on AWS to support early customer scale.
B.S. Computer Science
Extensible component libraries, SDKs, strict accessibility (a11y) compliance, and robust API boundaries for multi-team monorepos.
Tuning Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP), viewport virtualization, Scheduler API task chunking, build pipeline optimization (Biome), and Node.js V8 heap profiling.
State-machine client synchronization, conflict-free replicated data types (Y.js/CRDT), WebSockets, and optimistic UI updates for near-instant rendering.
Streaming agentic chats, concurrency-safe UI state machines, AI model integrations, and highly productive workflows leveraging AI development tools.
Always happy to connect and talk about interesting problems.
Redmond, WA