2025

Experience

Level Up Software LLC

2025 - Present

Co-founder & Lead Full-Stack Developer · Remote (Arlington, VA)

Consulting and publishing

EMR Platform (under NDA)

Feb 2025 - Jul 2025

React w/ Better-Auth (Zod, TypeScript)

  • Architected a containerized BFF microservice using ElysiaJS and Better-Auth to centralize API calls and manage authn/authz
  • Integrated w/ a custom HIPAA (FHIR v4) compliant C# server and scheduling with Acuity API

Cox Automotive

Aug 2021 - Jul 2025

Full Stack Developer · Remote (Arlington, VA)

Merchandising B2B SaaS web apps - Intelligent Promotions/vAuto

Typescript, StencilJS, Tailwind, SCSS, Terraform, C#.NET, GHA, AWS, React, NewRelic

Software Engineer II

Mar 2023

  • Automated 10,000+ dealer upgrades with a custom .NET worker, saving over 20,000 work-hours
  • Onboarded and mentored teams on existing front-end projects as front-end SME
  • Revamped the front-end CI/CD pipeline to reduce friction on internal deployments and testing, resulting in a tighter development loop
  • Identified and resolved Terraform provider and binary architecture mismatches (ARM64 vs x86_64), enabling multi-platform support for an enterprise-wide internal platform tool

Software Engineer I

Aug 2021

  • Developed a web component library and delivered Intelligent Promotions UI in 7 months
  • Implemented a hand-made "Smart Fields" text editor in HTML5 with a custom language parser featuring syntax highlighting, suggestions with auto-fill, and backward compatibility

University of Pittsburgh

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Spring 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020

Computer Science Department

  • Led labs where students implemented core concepts from lectures
  • Reinforced important course concepts by designing presentations and examples
  • Mentored and assisted students during weekly office hours

Courses:

  • CS0008 - Intro to Programming with Python
  • CS0401 - Intermediate Programming in Java
  • CS0447 - Computer Org. & Assembly
  • CS0449 - Intro to Systems Programming with C

TLI - Tech Divaz & High School Academy Summer Camp

Lead Instructor

Summer 2018

Grades 6-12

  • Taught computer science and web fundamentals (HTML5 & JavaScript)
  • Expanded on HTML5 concepts with a follow-along canvas game, a 'Space-Invaders' clone

Education & Credentials

University of Pittsburgh

B.S. Computer Science - Summa Cum Laude Honors Graduate

2016 - 2020

Minor in Korean Language, Asian Studies Certificate

GPA: 3.79/4.00 · Major GPA: 3.81/4.00

Major Coursework:

Computer Graphics, Data Science, High-Performance Computing, Compiler Design, Operating Systems, Formal Methods, Algorithms, Data Structures

Clubs:

Data Dojo (Business Manager), Korean Conversation Club

Yonsei University

Study Abroad Program · Seoul, South Korea

Fall 2018 - Spring 2019

Concentration in Computer Science and Korean Culture

GPA: 4.00/4.30

Major Coursework:

Computer Networking, Artificial Intelligence w/ Intro to Neural Networks

Certificates

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)

September 2024

NewRelic Full Stack Observability Practitioner

June 2024

Projects

Polish Pic

Oct 2025 - Present

Svelte 5 with SvelteKit, Rust + WASM, Tailwind v4

A privacy-preserving image processing web application SaaS tool

  • Serves as an applied research testbed for offline, on-device inference & federated learning
  • Optimized client-side image processing with WebAssembly and Rust image engine

3D Webcam Sandbox

2023 - Hiatus

Godot, Rust with gdext, Nokhwa, OpenSeeFace

A real-time 3D renderer with face tracking that rigs face movements to any 3D model and simultaneously updates texture resources with the video feed

  • Developed a Rust sub-process kernel for real-time async FFI message passing and handling
  • Implemented virtualized video splitting for face tracker input and game engine textures
  • Eased testing system-level results with mocks by using traits as dependency injection

Exclaim

2021

Rust

A template language (exclaim-grammar) and compiler for static site generation

  • Implemented a non-backtracking recursive descent parser by designing an LL(1) grammar
  • Utilized arena-allocated index tree pattern for memory-performant AST generation