Staff Software Engineer

Experience:

  • Staff Software Engineer
    March 2023 - April 2026

    Zendesk
    San Francisco, CA

    • Technical strategy and complex projects for the web and shopping cart teams.
    • Improved billing application smoke test success rate from 97.3% (red) to 99.8% (green).
    • Designed and stress-tested reliability and availability guardrails for a new marketing website stack.
  • Senior Software Engineer
    January 2020 - February 2023

    Zendesk
    San Francisco, CA

    • Led large content migration for 15-locale site from third-party platform to in-house CMS.
    • Developed REST API layer for CMS for programmatic content creation and content delivery.
  • Web Engineer
    December 2017 - December 2019

    Zendesk
    San Francisco, CA

  • Full-Stack Developer
    June 2015 - March 2017

    Worldreader
    San Francisco, CA

    • Sole staff developer on two apps used by staff and school partners.
  • Front-End Developer
    March 2014 - June 2015

    Worldreader
    San Francisco, CA

Technical Skills:

  • Javascript
  • Typescript
  • Node
  • React
  • NextJS
  • MySQL
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Python
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • AWS
  • Headless CMS
  • Testing (Cypress, Jest, etc.)
  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
  • Monitoring (Datadog)

Education:

  • Film
    2002 - 2003

    Fulbright Scholarship
    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • B.A.
    1998 - 2002

    Stanford University
    Palo Alto, CA