Work History
Owner of MFOI Consulting LLC; Naples FL
July 2024 to Current
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Deployed locally-hosted, secure, private, and cost-effective IT
solutions for small businesses and non-profits that reduce
operational costs and modernize infrastructure.
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Migrate infrastructure like Apache and Ruby on Rails with Nginx
and Next.JS to ensure future compatibility.
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Made landing sites for advertisement purposes in either HTML/CSS
or Next.JS/TailwindCSS.
Head Teaching Assistant; Brown University, Providence RI
January 2022 - May 2024
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Automated many manual tasks and data pipeline processes as the
Head Teaching Assistant for two 400+ student and 50+ staff courses
(including the largest UI/UX course in the country).
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Revamped the main course website(s) CI/CD pipeline to include
comprehensive tests for traversing links in GitHub Actions to
ensure students would not access broken links.
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Reverse engineered Gradescope's API using Postman to create a
self-hosted dockerized Typescript Next.JS app to simplify
management of grading data for professors.
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Integrated UX Factor, a peer-to-peer grading system in vanilla JS,
reducing manual grading by ~80%.
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Organized the creation and review of all course materials relating
to HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React, web accessibility, and UI/UX
design.
Research Assistant for Prof. Van Dam's Graphics Lab; Brown
University
January 2022 - May 2023
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Developed innovative features in a large TypeScript React webapp
(called Dash) used by thousands.
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Designed and implemented an efficient interactive storytelling
platform in Dash using a custom Typescript trie parser on MongoDB
documents for my honors thesis, sponsored by and presented to
Adobe and Figma.
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Ported light video processing from the Node.js backend to the
client using WebAssembly FFMPEG libraries, reducing heavy CPU
usage and network load on the Azure server during peak hours.
Fullstack Software Engineer Intern; Tagg.Id, Palo Alto CA
Summer 2021
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Served as the main point of contact for cross-functional
collaboration among the design, frontend, and backend engineering
teams, determining feature integration feasibility.
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Developed a touch-based video editing frontend for mobile devices
in React Native with native GPU support to double editing
performance and increase video resolution to native.