Work history

HabloCurrent role

CTO

Hablo connects the travel industry through posts, events, learning, and professional networks. As CTO, I lead technical direction and continue to build the product.

• Building a new platform for Visit California and developing custom AI agents.
• Engineering across the travel platform, learning products, content workflows, and mobile experiences.
• Leading delivery, reliability, and release quality as the platform develops.

divRIOTS

Core developer

Built six Figma plugins from the ground up at a company whose tools reached over two million users.

• Built image.to.design and ai.to.design for image imports and prompt-generated editable designs.
• Built data.to.design to connect real content sources and populate Figma layers with their data and images.
• Built psd.to.design and office.to.design to import existing documents into editable Figma designs.
• Built Lorem Ipsum for placeholder content and contributed to the public Figma plugin UI library.

Kernel

Senior software engineer

Principal developer of a full-stack data service and Figma plugin. Kernel let designers use real product content instead of manually replacing placeholders.

• Built import and management APIs for Google Sheets, JSON, and CSV, with access controls, versioning, and publishing.
• Created the Figma plugin component library and helped integrate Auth0 authentication within the plugin environment.
• Implemented queued image processing with BullMQ and Cloudinary.
• Added end-to-end tests and a microservices delivery pipeline with validation, tests, and deployment.

Yara

Senior React Native engineer

Worked on AtFarm, a React Native app for farmers. I helped prepare the app for release through feature delivery, refactoring, and improvements to stability.

• Delivered key features and new UI flows for the app’s release.
• Refactored the app for new GraphQL APIs and ensured it worked offline.
• Updated React Native versions and moved older class components to functional components and hooks.
• Added end-to-end tooling and automated repetitive development tasks, including fetching development tokens.

Hablo

Lead software engineer

Built the original Hablo platform from the ground up, taking the initial architecture to a working product within three months.

• Delivered accounts, connections, posts, search, and organizations with complex roles and permissions.
• Built with TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Auth0, NestJS, and PostgreSQL.
• Added real-time monitoring and a CI pipeline with pre-production environments and end-to-end checks.
• Built staged image loading with Cloudinary so small previews appeared before full-resolution images.

Triptease

Senior software engineer

Built hotel technology to help guests compare rates and hotels increase direct bookings. My work spanned Price Fighter, messaging, disparity dashboards, and client platforms.

• Built real-time OTA price collection and a price-check widget used on more than 10,000 hotel websites at the time, as recorded in my public resume.
• Worked on the messaging platform, isolated website widgets, and dashboards showing direct-rate disparities.
• Co-built the client platform, reusable UI components, and a branding service with a history of changes.
• Built analytics ingestion handling hundreds of requests per second, using queues and serverless functions.

Bopple

Head of development & frontend engineer

Helped deliver a mobile ordering platform and the tools venues needed to operate it, combining frontend engineering with development-team management.

• Managed a team spanning iOS, Android, Java backend development, and frontend engineering.
• Built an HTML5 app for venue staff to process orders placed through the mobile apps.
• Created the back-office CMS for venues to manage their accounts and product catalogues.

Waterfront

Software artist & project management

Branded games and visual production for set-top boxes, combining software art with project management.