Experience & Education
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Jun 2024 – Present
Director of Technology — Four Hundred New York, NY
Lead technology strategy and delivery across a 30+ person luxury concierge—spanning infra, product, and internal platforms.
- +30% membership inquiries via SEO, performance, and Google Ads work.
- Salesforce member portal & design system; 2× member engagement.
- LWC, dynamic pages, Flows, Apex → ~70% efficiency gains on ops.
- Incubated Kai Concierge from concept to App Store in ~2 months.
- Stack: AWS (ECS/ALB/S3), Docker, Django/Node, React/React Native, Salesforce.
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Jun 2024 – Present
Director of Technology — Stellar Pro New York, NY
B2B hotel-booking marketplace used by 3,000+ agents; led a team of five.
- Realtime messaging (Socket.io) and automated payouts (QuickBooks/Brex).
- Django + React on AWS ECS with CI/CD for reliability and scale.
- Stack: Django, React, AWS, CI/CD, marketplace architecture.
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Mar 2025 – Present
Founder — Kai Concierge New York, NY
Hybrid AI + human lifestyle assistant for dining, travel, events, and errands.
- 24/7 conversational AI with pro hospitality routing.
- From Michelin tables to sold-out hotels; bespoke experiences.
- Stack: React Native, Node.js/Socket.io, AWS; agentic preference profiles.
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May 2023 – Apr 2024
Founder — TableTurn.nyc (formerly Resy Sniper) Remote
Automated reservation platform scaled to 6-figure ARR in 12 months; acquired in 2024.
- MVP end-to-end (Django + Next.js) with Resy & OpenTable integrations.
- Booking automation, token refresh, and 24/7 monitoring.
- Migrated Flask→Django; CI/CD with Docker; AWS ECS Fargate.
- Led 4 contractors on a performance & UX redesign.
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Jul 2023 – Dec 2023
iOS Developer — Ginger Labs (Notability) San Francisco, CA
Shipped at scale; improved core performance for a top productivity app.
- Audio transcription used for 10M+ hours.
- Introduced 4 widgets; enhanced Universal Clipboard flows.
- Targeted startup-time and stability improvements.
- Stack: iOS, Objective-C/Swift, UIKit, MVVM/MVC, Xcode.
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Jul 2022 – Dec 2022
Software Engineer — Ten Percent Happier Boston, MA
Performance, reusable UI systems, and release quality.
- ~50% faster app startup; reusable Swift UI components/frameworks.
- QA support across 14 releases; personalized homepage.
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Jan 2021 – Aug 2021
Software Engineer — CarGurus Boston, MA
Built & A/B-tested consumer experiences across web.
- Redesigned returning-user homepage (React, CSS, FTL).
- Stack: React, experimentation, cross-functional delivery.
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Aug 2019 – May 2024
Northeastern University — Khoury College of Computer Sciences Boston, MA
B.S. Computer Science & Design (GPA 3.70/4.00). Focus: human-centered product, algorithms, systems.
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Aug 2016 – Jan 2021
Co-Founder — DJ Dexter & MC Cole Entertainment Los Angeles, CA
DJ’d 30+ events; built marketing site with pricing, testimonials, photos, and booking.
- End-to-end brand, web, and client experience ownership.
- Stack: HTML/CSS, small-biz ops, client service.
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Oct 2019 – Nov 2019
Front End Web Development Intern — Pixellab Remote
UI and PHP features for media & university projects.
- CSS modal animations; custom taxonomy filter by article category (PHP) for a UCLA site.