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Experience
Oct 2022 — Present
DoorDash
Storefront Web

Software Engineer

Storefront Web Migration

  • Led consolidation of all Storefront routes into single Next.js App Router SSR app as DRI
  • +6.25% absolute CVR lift on checkout, estimated $1.7M annualized GMV gain
  • Coordinated cross-team migration, trimming 300K lines of legacy code

Checkout Performance

  • Designed first SSR-streaming checkout: 5.56% FCP improvement, 17% Speed Index improvement
  • $8.3M annualized GMV impact from performance gains

E2E Test Modernization

  • Built AI-first Playwright framework: 3.2x coverage increase (57 to 184 tests)
  • Added auth via test tenancy, payment card testing, dynamic consumer creation with OTP

MFA Payment Security

  • DRI for MFA verification on payment additions, collaborating with Payments and Fraud teams
  • Built reusable MFA risk package adopted by Marketplace team

AI Tooling

  • Built AI-powered DSL generation tool converting natural language to UI components with real-time streaming

Reliability & Scaling

  • Authored Storefront web reliability roadmap and co-authored performance roadmap
  • Performed deep scaling analysis for McDonald’s launch, debugged high-CPU issues in web server
React Next.js TypeScript GraphQL Playwright MSW Tailwind CSS
Sep 2020 — Oct 2022
Amazon Web Services
AWS AI DevOps

Lead Frontend Engineer

  • Designed Detector Hub website frontend with Next.js SSG, reducing asset size by 80% using Tailwind
  • Led AWS BugBust consoles — set Guinness World Record for largest bug-fixing challenge
  • Migrated from Redux/Saga to React Query, speeding development by 2x
  • Moved from Babel to SWC: test execution 10min to 42s, build 1.5min to 20s
  • Added CloudWatch Synthetics monitoring for all consoles
React TypeScript Next.js Tailwind CSS AWS Node.js
Feb 2020 — Sep 2020
Amazon Web Services
AWS AI DevOps

Full Stack Engineer

  • Built experimentation platform for ML scientists — increased efficiency by 3x
  • Created frontend proxy service with Node.js, Express, Lambda, and Cognito
  • JAM stack approach reduced yearly costs by 138% vs on-demand EC2
React Node.js Express Lambda Cognito
Jan 2014 — Dec 2018
Artillegence Founder

Founder & CEO

Founded and led a WordPress product studio (team of 2-5), shipping 9 commercial themes and plugins on Envato/Themeforest with custom live editing engines, e-commerce integrations, and unique UX innovations.

Also built Power CMS, a custom CMS on Laravel with multi-portal subdomain system, granular user roles, Stripe payments, and integrated forums.

Limitless

Fully live website editing environment for WordPress with minimal learning curve

The Canvas

Next-gen live editing system (Squarespace-like) for complete site management

Amora

Photography platform with watermarking, anti-copy protection, and stock photo shop

Wakana

Hospitality theme with GSAP animations, parallax engine, and WooCommerce booking

PinPress

Pinterest-inspired blog with HTML5 localStorage pinning system

Leap Chat

Real-time chat app built on WordPress with visitor tracking API

Playground

Sandbox trial system for WordPress vendors with 40+ marketing API integrations

WordPress PHP Laravel JavaScript jQuery React GSAP WooCommerce Stripe
May 2014 — Dec 2017
D4Design Studios

Full Stack Developer

  • Built advanced Google Maps API directory for clinics in DACH region — reduced customer travel time by 20%
  • Replaced Vimeo selling system with subscription model — profits increased 80% in first quarter
  • Created one of the first live page builders for WordPress
React JavaScript Node.js WordPress Google Maps API
Jan 2011 — Dec 2013
WPTitans Co-Founder

Co-Founder

Co-founded a WordPress product studio and shipped one of the earliest visual page builders on the internet before page builders became an industry standard.

Built and shipped multiple WordPress plugins including pricing tables, blog plugins, and photography plugins across different niches.

Titan Editor

One of the earliest visual page builders on the internet, enabling drag-and-drop page creation

Yvora

Premium WordPress theme with unique design features on Envato/Themeforest

WordPress PHP JavaScript jQuery HTML5 CSS3 MySQL
Technologies

Languages

TypeScript JavaScript HTML/CSS GraphQL PHP

Frameworks

React Next.js Astro Tailwind CSS Node.js Express Laravel WordPress

Cloud

AWS Lambda CloudWatch Cognito

Tools

Vercel Git Figma Storybook

Testing

Testing Library Cypress Playwright MSW
Selected Work
01

AWS BugBust

Coding challenge platform that set a Guinness World Record for the largest bug-fixing challenge

ReactTypeScriptAWS
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02

Detector Hub

CodeGuru Reviewer detector library documentation site built with Next.js SSG

Next.jsTailwindSSG
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03

Limitless

Fully live website editing environment for WordPress with drag-and-drop page creation

WordPressPHPJavaScript
04

The Canvas

Next-generation live editing system for WordPress enabling real-time site management

WordPressPHPJavaScript
05

Amora

Photography platform with watermarking, anti-copy protection, and integrated stock photo shop

WordPressPHPGD Library
06

Titan Editor

One of the earliest visual page builders on the internet, pioneering drag-and-drop page creation

WordPressPHPjQuery
07

ThemeForest Portfolio

9 commercial WordPress themes and plugins sold on Envato marketplace

WordPressPHPJavaScript
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