›Architected and shipped the Friends Page feature on Android for the leading watch party platform (millions of MAU), with implementation patterns adopted by iOS/Desktop teams, contributing to +100K monthly active user growth
›Led vendor communications and technical integration of new ad providers and web indexing partners, driving 40% revenue growth on the Android platform
›Developed the Crunchyroll provider end-to-end—first to achieve video playback on Android, then enabled iOS/Desktop teams to implement, earning a raise for exceptional performance
›Revamped the Google Drive provider from legacy to modern architecture with 3-tier fallback streaming and network-adaptive quality selection, dramatically improving playback for one of the platform's most popular sources
›Migrated legacy Java codebase to Kotlin with coroutines and structured concurrency, reducing code complexity by 50%
›Diagnosed critical memory leaks and coordinated fixes with external SDK teams, maintaining 97%+ crash-free rate
May – August 2022 · Kelowna, BC
Minga
Jr. Software Developer
AngularTypeScriptgRPCProtobufRxJS
›Implemented hall pass and behavioral points features with complex time-based logic and state management using Protobuf/gRPC, serving 20K+ students and teachers across 50+ schools daily
›Identified and resolved 10+ UI bugs through QA collaboration, including screen scaling issues and unresponsive controls, improving cross-device compatibility
September 2021 – April 2022 · Kelowna, BC
Atomic47 Labs
Jr. Software Engineer
React NativeNode.jsNestJSMongoDBAzure
›Optimized backend performance by refactoring to MongoDB aggregation pipelines and consolidating scattered calls, improving query speed by 80% and reducing total requests by 40%
›Replaced Redux with React Query, cutting state management complexity by 50%
›Diagnosed and fixed critical authentication bug in Auth0 token refresh flow; granted production access to debug, resolving login failures affecting all users
›Built core Village App features: real-time WebSocket chat, geospatial friend discovery (1-150km), and 17-category marketplace, powering social discovery and local commerce
May – August 2021 · Richmond, BC
Jusaves
Software Engineer
LaravelPHPPythonMySQLscikit-learn
›Designed product recommendation engine using K-Nearest Neighbors with cosine similarity and hierarchical geographic filtering, scaled to handle 2 million products
›Implemented multi-role authentication with dynamic role switching between buyer, seller, and distributor, allowing users to operate across all marketplace sides