Work experience

• Founding Software Engineer

  Santa Clara University Discord Network

  2020.05-2024.11

  (5 years)

  • Led team of 3 developers to build and maintain Discord bot and community forum, achieving up to 74% annual user retention and scaling to over 1,200 students, employing agile incident management for platform stability • Developed anonymized verification using SMTP and Node.js email module, saving 67% of completion time against predefined 5-minute validation window with average onboarding duration of 1.65 minutes per user • Implemented Discord user support system with a 23% adoption rate, leveraging quick.db for persistent data storage, enhancing member engagement and operational efficiency through dynamic channel management and HTML log generation • Created secure web portal integrated with Discord OAuth 2, enabling users with live, customizable profiles up to 250 roles • Mentored junior UI/UX developer, guiding design and execution of responsive and dependency-less web portal UI • Improved code reliability with CodeQL and Snyk, resolving issues in approximately 98% of automated pull requests • Orchestrated migration of Discord.js bot from Raspberry Pi with 50% uptime to a DigitalOcean Linux box with 99.99% SLA • Ensured interoperability by leveraging PM2 to concurrently manage and monitor both Node.js and Deno apps, optimizing deployment and maintenance in heterogeneous application environments • Enhanced codebase with Discord.js Commando library, advanced OOP, and modular handling for 20+ commands • Achieved top Google pagerank visibility among over 3 million search engine results pages through use of promotional platforms for content creation and optimization of meta tags, keywords, and site architecture