Experience

Level Up Software LLC

2025 - Present

Co-founder, full-stack developer, and UI/UX designer · Remote (Arlington, VA)

Software consulting and product development

EMR Platform

Feb 2025 - Present

React, Better Auth, Zod, TypeScript

Architected a containerized backend-for-frontend (BFF) microservice using ElysiaJS and Better Auth to centralize API calls and handle authentication and authorization
Integrated with a custom C# server using FHIR v4 for HIPAA-regulated workflows, plus scheduling through the Acuity API

Cox Automotive

Aug 2021 - Jul 2025

Full-stack developer · Intelligent Promotions and vAuto · Remote (Arlington, VA)

TypeScript, StencilJS, Tailwind CSS, SCSS, Terraform, C#/.NET, GitHub Actions, AWS, React, New Relic

Software Engineer II

Mar 2023

• Automated upgrades for 10,000+ dealers with a custom .NET worker, saving more than 20,000 hours of manual work

Software Engineer I

Aug 2021

• Built a web-component library and delivered the Intelligent Promotions UI within seven months

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B2B SaaS web applications for merchandising

Additional contributions as Software Engineer II

Onboarded teams to existing front-end projects and mentored them as a front-end subject-matter expert
Revamped the front-end CI/CD pipeline to streamline internal deployments and testing, shortening the development feedback loop
Diagnosed and fixed an architecture-mismatch bug in an enterprise platform tool that installed x86_64 Terraform binaries and provider plugins during local Terraform setup on ARM64, restoring all ARM64 builds while keeping the setup aligned with enterprise guidelines

Additional contributions as Software Engineer I

Built a custom "Smart Fields" HTML5 text editor with a language parser, syntax highlighting, autocomplete, and backward compatibility

University of Pittsburgh

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Spring 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020

Computer Science Department

Led weekly lab sessions where students applied core concepts from lectures

TLI — Lead Instructor

Summer 2018

Tech Divaz & High School Academy Summer Camp

Grades 6-12

Taught computer science and web-development fundamentals in HTML5 and JavaScript
Expanded on HTML5 concepts through a follow-along canvas game: a Space Invaders clone

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Education

University of Pittsburgh

B.S. in Computer Science · summa cum laude

2016 - 2020

Minor in Korean Language · Certificate in Asian Studies

GPA: 3.79/4.00 · Major GPA: 3.81/4.00

Yonsei University

Study Abroad Program · Seoul, South Korea

Fall 2018 - Spring 2019

Areas of study: Computer Science and Korean Culture

GPA: 4.00/4.30

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Certificates

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)

September 2024

New Relic Full Stack Observability Practitioner

June 2024

Technical Skills

Languages & runtimes: TypeScript, JavaScript, Rust, C, GDScript, Python, C#/.NET, C++, Assembly, Bun, Node.js, Deno
Frontend: React, Svelte/SvelteKit, SolidJS, Web Components, StencilJS, Tailwind CSS, SCSS, React Native
Backend & infrastructure: Terraform, GitHub Actions, ElysiaJS, Better Auth, Convex, Clerk, Cloudflare (Pages, Workers, Durable Objects), Wrangler, FHIR v4, AWS
Systems, performance & graphics: Godot, WebAssembly, WebGL/GLSL, Parallel programming, synchronization primitives, cache locality, FFI, compiler design
AI & developer tooling: AI product integration, agent harnesses, computer-vision systems
Engineering practice: Product design, system architecture, workflow orchestration, SDLC automation, CI/CD, testing, observability (New Relic), analytics (PostHog)

Additional contributions: Exarchos SDLC tooling; early Deno v1 TOML parser work—fixed edge cases and expanded test coverage.

Project Highlights

timedat

2026 - Present

Product lead · Product design & UX · Full-stack development

Svelte 5, SvelteKit, Clerk, Tailwind CSS, Vitest, Convex

A privacy-first time tracker for freelancers, teams, and founders to record billable work and sweat equity—without screen surveillance or productivity scoring.

Visit timedat.app

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Designed parallel-task tracking to allocate overlapping time across tasks without double-counting it
Built flexible, portable live sessions backed by Convex's ACID-compliant database, with a custom diff builder for manual edits and saves while a session is active
Tracked fine-grained slices of task activity, breaks, and task switches in live sessions, so people can review active-time overlaps without double-counting ad hoc work logged while another session was paused

Polish Pic

Oct 2025 - Present

Product lead · Product design & UX · Full-stack development

Svelte 5, SvelteKit, Rust/WebAssembly, Tailwind CSS v4, Cloudflare Durable Objects

A privacy-first image-processing SaaS with AI image generation

Visit polishpic.com

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Uses Durable Objects to coordinate image-generation sessions and record usage across requests
Optimizes client-side image processing with WebAssembly, a Rust image engine, and asynchronous web workers to keep the UI responsive by moving work off the main thread

3D Webcam Sandbox

2023 - Present

Private project · Sole developer

Godot, GDScript, Rust with gdext, Nokhwa, OpenSeeFace (Python)

A real-time 3D VTuber renderer that maps tracked facial movement onto 3D models and updates their textures from a live video feed

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Built a Rust subprocess kernel for asynchronous, real-time FFI message passing
Implemented virtual video splitting to provide separate feeds for face-tracker input and game-engine textures
Used traits for dependency injection to enable mock-based system tests locally and on CI runners
Kept the OpenSeeFace integration current by updating dependencies and adapting the surrounding plumbing to breaking changes

Exclaim

2021

COVID-era project · Language designer & Compiler engineer · Deprecated

Rust

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

github/exclaim github/exclaim-grammar

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Designed an LL(1) grammar that enabled implementation of a non-backtracking recursive-descent parser
Used an arena-allocated index-tree pattern for memory-performant AST generation without per-node allocations in the hot loop