About
I’m a design engineer at
Brevo PushOwl, working on Shopify apps used by millions of people. I design what I build, and most of my time goes into how it moves and feels.
Outside work I make and play games, and obsess over movies.
Work
- WrighterA markdown editor that keeps loose thoughts as bitesMarkdown editor
- TeenyToolsThe small tools designers who code use daily, in one tabToolbox
- DiddoHubLearning paths made from YouTube videosHackathon winner
- Exoplanet ExploreKepler and NASA data as a star map you can exploreData visualisation
- YataA project manager that sorts work by hashtagProject manager
- WatchDogA monitoring dashboard for firefightersMonitoring dashboard
- Old WebsiteThe 2018 me, kept as it wasPortfolio, 2018
Playground
- OvergrownAn app nobody opens any more, with the moss taking it back.Rust, grime, moss and ivy, grown over a real interface.
- GrassPixel grass that grows in over bare earth and bends in the wind.Click it to plant flowers.
- Curse of the Ego KingA fast action game about a king with a very big ego.Won “most creative” at the Replit Kaboom game jam, 2021.
- Games on itch.ioEvery game I made before 2018.Making these is how I learned to program and design, without meaning to.
- DiddoHub betaA notes editor that stays in sync with a YouTube video.A later version of it won the company hackathon.
- Chaos ShapesAnimated shapes, chaotic and somehow pretty.Made by accident while learning maths functions.
- Generative ScapesMountain scapes drawn from simple maths.Proof that simple maths can be beautiful.
Experience
PushOwl2023 – now
Frontend Engineer
Jul 2023 – now- Working on shopify apps, currently neck-deep into the ecosystem
- Managing multiple huge frontend codebases serving millions of clients
Presidio, 4 roles2020 – 2023
Senior Software Engineer
Mar 2023 – Jul 2023- Writing scalable IaC(Infrastructure as Code) in typescript using CDK
- Managing complex async dynamic state machines with AWS step functions and building an interactive flow visualizer on the frontend
Software Engineer
Nov 2021 – Mar 2023- Worked on a data heavy dashboard to process & display bulky near-realtime data.
- Maintained an abstract design system built on top of MUI
- Optimized and resolved performance issues that improved the whole application's UX, wrote a series of blogs on the discovery.
- Developed in-house dev tools and introduced modern React design patterns which greatly improved the developer experience.
- Wrote scalable AWS Infrastructure with CDK and built microservices with NestJS
Associate Software Engineer
Aug 2021 – Nov 2021- Get AWS Certified - Solutions Architect Associate
Developer Intern
Jul 2020 – Nov 2021- Worked on a realtime videoconferencing e-commerce webapp utilizing AWS resources, optimized the app on mobile & tablet screens
- Dig deep into angular code to fix frontend performance issues of a WebRTC application, which increased the number of concurrent video participants by 60%
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