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Work Experience

Companies and Projects I've worked at as a software engineer

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  Clin Street

  Senior Software Engineer

  December 2022 – Present

  React.js

  React Native

  Next.js

  Redux

  TailwindCSS

  AG Grid

  Axios

  RSuite

  React Router

  Clin Street builds software to streamline clinical trial operations across global sites. I worked across multiple web and mobile applications, helping ship impactful features while maintaining a clean, scalable codebase.

  My Work

  • Led frontend architecture across 6+ products including eTMF and Site CTMS, the document archive and the operations system a trial site runs on, serving clinical trial operations across global sites.
  • Rebuilt legacy codebases by migrating to a modern Vite setup, reducing build times by 80-87% with optimized CI/CD pipelines and updated dependencies.
  • Built and maintained Clin Street's public website using Next.js and TailwindCSS.
  • Engineered participant onboarding workflows and site selection modules, the tools that decide which hospitals and clinics run a given trial.
  • Built a library of 50+ reusable components and custom React hooks, standardizing UI patterns and accelerating feature development across teams.
  • Improved page performance through memoization, lazy loading, and targeted component refactors.
  • Set up and enforced code quality standards using ESLint, Prettier, and TypeScript across all frontend projects.
  • Managed source control with GitHub, and worked in an Agile environment using Asana to manage sprints, track tasks, and coordinate with the team.

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  WhiteboardFox

  Software Engineer

  September 2023 – April 2025

  Java

  GWT Canvas

  JSP

  WebSockets

  MongoDB

  REST APIs

  Authentication

  WhiteboardFox is a collaborative, real-time virtual whiteboard. I joined the core engineering team to enhance the drawing experience, update real-time collaboration features, and strengthen the platform’s overall security.

  My Work

  • Built REST and WebSocket APIs in Java for real-time collaboration, with server-side session authentication and role checks deciding who can join, draw or observe a board, and an origin allowlist on the CORS responses for cross-site requests.
  • Wrote JUnit tests covering brush physics: Bézier curve accuracy, inkpen pressure and radius interpolation at different speeds, and stroke compression/decompression.
  • Built features including custom brush colors, snapshots for sharing boards during live sessions, a follower system for public boards and creators, and a paginated board lobby backed by MongoDB with email-verification gating and idempotent reporting so a user cannot report the same board twice.

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  Hacker Herald

  Software Engineer

  August 2024 – December 2024

  Node.js

  Firebase Functions

  Firebase Admin SDK

  AWS S3

  Axios

  Gzip Compression

  tiny-async-pool

  htmlparser2

  Hacker Herald is a visual twist on Hacker News, enriched with crowdsourced images and subtitles and a clean, fast frontend. I contributed to both the backend pipelines and the HTML/CSS/JS frontend that powers the reader experience.

  My Work

  • Built and deployed the full static frontend using HTML, JavaScript, and responsive CSS.
  • Developed the backend pipeline for fetching, enriching, and ranking top Hacker News stories using Firebase Functions, Axios, and Node.js.
  • Built a crowdsourced subtitle and image system with voting and fallback logic.
  • Compressed enriched stories into Gzipped JSON payloads and uploaded to AWS S3 for daily and historical access.
  • Handled concurrent story updates with tiny-async-pool to improve throughput while staying within upstream rate limits.

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  Theo's Den Studio

  Web Developer

  Next.js

  React

  Tailwind CSS

  Motion

  WebGL

  JSON-LD

  Vercel

  Theo's Den Studio is a media production studio for photography, film and podcasts. I built their website from the brand guide up, mobile first, since most visitors arrive on a phone.

  My Work

  • Built the site on the Next.js App Router and Tailwind CSS v4. It is fully static and prerendered, with light and dark themes.
  • Turned the studio's brand guide into design tokens using CSS
  • Wrote a WebGL 360 degree studio viewer with ogl that loads only on tap.
  • Added local SEO: LocalBusiness, ImageGallery and Person structured data, canonical URLs, a sitemap and alt text, aimed at searches like "podcast studio in Kothrud".
  • Built the scroll and spring animations with Motion over native scrolling. They respect reduced motion and never take over the scroll.
  • Built a three step booking form that posts to Discord through a Next.js route handler.

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