Software Development Experience

Freelance Software Developer & Web Designer

Dec 2025

• Met with the Vice President and submitted a comprehensive proposal for a static fundraising site and a WordPress-based publishing platform and Sendy newsletter integration

Creator, Lead Developer

Sep 2022 – Mar 2024 (Open-Source Initiative)

Description: The DGC is a living directory of personal digital gardens and digital gardeners who are willing to trade their time to help others create their own. The DGC also maintains open-source technologies in the personal digital gardening arena.

Front Porch (Dec 2023 – Mar 2024)

Links: Product Hunt Github

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Quartz (Open-Source Static-Site Generator)

• Created an open-source fork of Quartz that serves as a person’s website, digital garden, portfolio, ‘now’ log, and blogroll

Open-Source Community Digital Gardening Technology (Jun 2023 – Dec 2023)

Links: GitHub

Technologies: ReactJS, NextJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Storybook, Chakra UI, HTML, CSS

• Led a team of 5 open-source developers in creating a community blogging web app that would be integrated with a digital gardening hub
• Created the frontend boilerplate that would be used as the starting point for the team
  

(Canceled) Digital Gardening Hub (Sep 2022 – Dec 2023)

Technologies: ReactJS, NextJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Deno, Storybook, Chakra UI, HTML, CSS

• Developed a digital gardening hub that would allow users to create a personal digital garden on the platform and submit pieces to community digital gardens that were connected to the platform

Indie App Developer

May 2020 – Aug 2020

Description: A save-for-later and digital media aggregator app.

Technologies: Dart, Flutter, JavaScript, React, Redux, HTML, CSS, Bulma CSS, Firebase/Firestore, Python, Flask, Google Cloud Platform

• Revised the design of Korey (Team Korey’s project from below) and rebranded it.
• Built a save-for-later and digital media aggregator app with article content extraction capabilities.
• Developed a Flask API leveraging Newspaper3k for automated article parsing and content retrieval.
• Deployed and hosted the backend service on Google Cloud Platform.
  

Project Lead, Software Developer, Product Designer

Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 (occurred while I temporarily left the above project)

Description: A mobile app that allows you to save online articles and other digital content for later and consume them right within the app. For reference, I started this endeavor because I discovered a need while working on a independent user experience case study. Learn More…

Technologies: React Native, Realm, iOS, Android, Flask, Python

• Spearheaded the app’s design and co-developed the React-Native frontend
• Played an active role in discussions that pertained to the backend
• Main speaker for both the pitch to the judges and the main stage pitch (audience of at least 100 peopple). We came in second place.