Fullstack Developer

Instructure is an EdTech platform that powers Canvas, the world’s #1 LMS, used by schools and universities across the globe. Note: Because Instructure uses Gerrit as its primary code repo system, my public GitHub activity is limited.

• Enhanced the Canvas platform to achieve full WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility compliance.
• Led the development of a course-level accessibility checker with an 8-person team, enabling instructors to identify and resolve accessibility issues across entire courses, improving efficiency and inclusivity.
• Implemented Amazon Bedrock with Anthropic Claude-3 Haiku to remediate accessibility issues in large-scale course and assignment content, processing thousands of pages to correct missing ALT text, improper heading structures, and other issues.
• Designed and optimized prompts tailored to accessibility use cases.
• Enhanced the LLM client with a rate-limiting feature to improve scalability and reliability.

Kisi is a U.S.–based technology company that develops cloud-based access control systems for physical spaces.

• Designed and delivered Incident Policies, enabling real-time alerts and proactive security measures.
• Transitioned the background job processor from Google Pub/Sub to Sidekiq Pro, improving scalability.
• Designed and delivered Weekly Place Analytics, providing a comprehensive weekly summary of facility usage.
• Integrated reporting with Google BigQuery to enable data-driven insights.
• Streamlined release workflows with zero-downtime migrations, enhancing deployment efficiency.
• Built a custom RAG pipeline using GCP services, enabling AI-powered search across internal documentation and improving knowledge discovery while reducing support overhead.

foodcircle was a Berlin-based B2B marketplace connecting food producers and retailers across Europe, focused on simplifying the trade of organic and sustainable food products.

• Integrated the Rapyd payment gateway to support the company’s new brokerage business model.
• Optimized the Odoo ERP integration and collaborated closely with the finance team to automate multiple processes.
• Implemented an automated sync of customer and vendor invoices into Metabase via GCP.

Tripleseat is a U.S.-based SaaS company providing an event and sales management platform for restaurants, hotels, and venues.

• Built TripleseatDirect, supporting online bookings during the COVID pandemic, which was adopted by chains like Maggiano’s.
• Led a frontend redesign to enable responsive design.
• Added integrations with HubSpot, Mailchimp, Stripe CC/ACH, Clover Connect, and Shift4.
• Implemented full SCA support for Stripe credit card payments and extended the payment processor to accept ACH payments via Stripe and CardConnect.
• Built "VENUES by Tripleseat," a venue directory site that helped users find ideal restaurants, hotels, or unique venues for social events.
• Developed the "Discussion Center" feature, enabling users to manage messages in a Gmail-like interface.