Experience

Work Experience

Full Stack Mobile Developer

We Explore Earth

Los Angeles, CA

Dec. 2025 - Present
  • Developing features for a real-time event platform used by 20,000+ users for event management, RSVPs, and volunteer coordination.
  • Designing and implementing 10+ RESTful APIs for event creation and RSVP workflows, reducing redundant queries by 20%.
  • Collaborating with 5 designers using Figma hi-fis and coordinating development through GitHub as part of an agile 15-member team.
  • Leveraging AWS services and Firebase-backed infrastructure to support scalable event management and real-time platform functionality.

Technical Co-Founder

Rise the Fenua

Los Angeles, CA

Feb. 2024 - Present
  • Co-founded an education-focused nonprofit supporting underserved youth in Tahiti through school supplies and fundraising initiatives.
  • Developed a production dashboard used by 20+ volunteers to streamline merchandise fulfillment and coordination.
  • Engineered a data pipeline using 6+ SQL migrations to normalize Google Form responses, reducing manual processing time by 40%.
  • Led operations, overseeing software systems, merchandise logistics, and fundraising workflows that generated $20,000 in donations.

Software Engineer Intern

BID

Los Angeles, CA

May 2025 - Aug. 2025
  • Contributed to development for a marketplace platform connecting users with local service providers through task-based bidding workflows.
  • Built auth and session management endpoints using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB, supporting 500+ active users.
  • Debugged API response, session persistence, and state synchronization issues across 5+ backend/frontend routes.
  • Supported product updates during a platform pivot, helping improve system usability and feature stability across multiple core modules.

Intern

Vectorly

Los Angeles, CA

May 2024 - Aug. 2024
  • Contributed to an AI-powered technical interview platform designed to help users prepare for software engineering interviews.
  • Evaluated AI-generated coding outputs for technical interview workflows, assessing accuracy and response quality across problems.

Clubs & Organizations

Developer

LA Blueprint

Los Angeles, CA

Sep 2025 - Present
  • Selected through a 4% acceptance rate for a student-led organization that develops full-stack products for nonprofits across LA.
  • Presented technical deliverables and architecture proposals to peers improving collaboration and software adoption.
  • Contributed to open-source civic-tech products that empower Los Angeles nonprofits to modernize community operations.

Additional Information

Awards

  • Dean's List
  • Southern California Research Symposium
  • Bay Honors Undergraduate Research Conference (UC Berkeley)

Interests and Activities

  • Double Bass
  • Tutoring (School on Wheels)

Fun fact: I love to make music in my free time!