Founder & Full Stack Engineer - TravelTipsGo LLC
(2025-03)
Solo-built production travel planning & sharing platform grounded in Christian values
- Sole architect and developer of a full stack production platform, owning 100% of architecture, frontend, backend, and infrastructure decisions across 14 months
- Engineered trip itinerary system with day-by-day scheduling and HERE Maps turn-by-turn routing, cached on Upstash Redis with 2-week TTL and Google Maps fallback for live navigation
- Implemented cursor-based pagination for scalable itinerary browsing, replacing offset pagination to maintain query performance at scale
- Integrated Stripe subscription billing with webhook handling, idempotency logic, and tiered membership management (free vs. paid access)
- Built tiered privacy system allowing paid members to hide itinerary events and share full trip details including routing with selected users
- Deployed on Azure with Firebase authentication and Firestore; implemented serverless PDF generation for offline trip downloads
- Founded TravelTipsGo LLC in Washington State; managing business licensing, B&O tax compliance, and platform operations independently
Frontend Developer - CityLife Presbyterian Church
(2024-02 - 2024-08)
- Rebuilt church web application with responsive UI, optimizing navigation to a depth of 2 clicks and increasing user engagement by 100%
- Designed and implemented captivating graphics and layout improvements for cross-device compatibility
Full Stack Developer - Gordon360, Gordon College
(2021-06 - 2023-05)
Student platform serving the entire Gordon College community, created in 2016 for co-curricular involvement tracking
- Integrated People Search feature surfacing 20k+ previously unreachable alumni profiles, expanding platform utility across the full alumni network
- Led backend feature development for intramural activity tracking in Gordon360, conducting 12 weeks of testing before final deployment
- Overhauled participant information retrieval from API, reducing loading time by 50% through query optimization
