Staff Software Engineer

Experience:

  • Staff Software Engineer
    March 2023 - Present

    Zendesk
    San Francisco, CA

    • Technical strategy and complex projects for the Web Team.
    • React migration reliability and availability planning and design.

  • Senior Software Engineer
    January 2020 - February 2023

    Zendesk
    San Francisco, CA

    • Led migration of content for all 15 regions from third-party platform to CMS database.
    • Developed REST API layer for CMS for programmatic content creation and content delivery.

  • Web Engineer
    December 2017 - December 2019

    Zendesk
    San Francisco, CA

  • Full-Stack Developer
    June 2015 - March 2017

    Worldreader
    San Francisco, CA

    • Sole staff developer on two apps used by staff and school partners.

    • Migrated marketing site to stateless auto-scaled Elastic Beanstalk environment, with dual-origin CDN and static assets stored in AWS S3.

  • Front-End Developer
    March 2014 - June 2015

    Worldreader
    San Francisco, CA

Technical Skills:

  • Javascript
  • NodeJS
  • React
  • NextJS
  • MySQL
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • Ruby on Rails
  • AWS
  • Heroku
  • TDD & QA
  • CI Tooling Design
  • Migration Planning
  • JSON API Design
  • Project Management

Education:

  • Film
    2002 - 2003

    Fulbright Scholarship
    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • B.A.
    1998 - 2002

    Stanford University
    Palo Alto, CA