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Career Changelog

A continuous timeline of engineering roles, infrastructure upgrades, and architectural milestones.

v4.0.0 2024 — PRESENT

Staff Front-End Architect @ HyperScale Platforms

Focus: Core Web Vitals, Design Systems, Raycast Extension Ecosystem, and High-Throughput Web Applications.

  • Spearheaded migration to micro-frontends reducing bundle size by 42% and initial load time from 2.8s to 450ms.
  • Architected the company-wide dark-mode design token system in collaboration with product designers.
  • Authored internal developer tooling and custom Raycast workflow extensions used by 200+ engineers daily.
  • Mentored 8 senior and mid-level engineers on accessibility, WebAssembly, and state machine design.
v3.0.0 2022 — 2024

Senior Software Engineer @ Nebula Cloud OS

Focus: Real-time collaboration canvas, WebSocket streaming engine, and Rust WASM modules.

  • Engineered a CRDT-based collaborative canvas handling 50+ simultaneous editors with 60 FPS performance.
  • Integrated WebAssembly rasterization engine yielding a 5x speedup over standard Canvas 2D operations.
  • Collaborated directly with founders on UX micro-animations, keyboard-first navigation patterns, and accessibility.
v2.0.0 2020 — 2022

Front-End Engineer @ Matrix Creative Systems

Focus: React component libraries, WebGL 3D product previews, and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Built 45+ accessible UI components in Storybook with 100% test coverage.
  • Reduced continuous deployment pipeline time from 14 minutes to 2.5 minutes using TurboRepo and caching.
  • Awarded Best Product Polish for the dark-mode dashboard redesign.
v1.0.0 2018 — 2020

Junior Developer & Open Source Contributor

Focus: Modern JavaScript, CSS architecture, semantic HTML, and open source documentation.

  • Contributed patches to popular open-source UI libraries and CLI utilities.
  • Graduated with B.S. in Computer Science with Honors.