Experience
🤖 Twise.ai
Backend Lead & AI Engineer | 2024-2025- Owner & sole maintainer of the backend codebase. Responsible for system health, release management, feature planning.
- Built Product Discovery - enabled the AI assistant to make product recommendations relevant to the current conversation.
- Built Create from Website - create an AI assistant for a brand from a website URL.
- Built Insights - AI assistant analytics showcasing user interaction, costs, conversation volume, top pages, common keywords, etc.
- Continuously improved AI assistant answer quality: revamped Q&A knowledge card model, enhanced context retention.
📈 Robinhood
Software Engineer | 2020-2022- Sole web engineer for the Information Products team. Built Market Updates, Feature Discovery, In-App Comms, IPO Readiness projects...
- Web engineer for the Education Team. Revamped the content deployment pipeline, built Education Lessons, 2020 Robinhood Recap...
- Main point-of-contact for Snacks and Learn websites, migrated Snacks to next.js, on-call.
- Revamped the web interview process. Conducted 30+ tech screens for web engineers.
⚽️ FanAI
Frontend Developer | 2019-2020- Implemented numerous analytics visualizations using Highcharts.
- Designed an architecture to support customizable dashboards.
- Built the MVP for the upcoming spend attribution feature.
- Ensured component maintainability using Storybook, E2E testing, UI testing, Atomic Design.
🎓 University of California, Los Angeles
2017-2020- B.S. in Computer Science
- 2019 summer - software engineering intern at HENNGE. Automated applicant data analytics, built a scalable Twitter clone.
- 2016 fall - iOS/React Native engineer at ZeroToOneLabs, where I shipped two apps.
- 2016 summer - React Native engineer at All Square, where I rewrote the entire All Square's old iOS codebase in React Native.
- 2016 spring - Frontend engineer at Princeton.Chat, where I built a forum with real-time messaging on Meteor.
- 2015 fall - iOS engineer at Taylr, where I built a video-chat experience with musical.ly integration.
🎲 Projects
- Designed & taught a 4-week course on frontend development at nFactorial School (Feb 2025).
- Mentor at nFactorial Incubator 2023, where I built a Next.js starter project for students' next AI app.
- Kanji Ninja - created a fun iOS game to learn both drawing and reading of 1,000 Japanese characters. Featured on Product Hunt (270+ upvotes).
- nukte. - created an iOS addictive puzzle game about connecting colorful dots. Presented the game at the Demo Day held in Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
- Misc: 3x Rubik’s Cube World Championship 2013 finalist, 4th all-time Asian record in 4x4 Rubik’s Cube - 30.19 sec (2013).
