Internships, leadership & impact

Custom CMS and website development — migrating the platform off Wix to a fully owned stack with database design, end-to-end page delivery, and performance hardening.

• Working as a full-stack developer to design and build a custom CMS and website, migrating the platform off Wix to a fully owned tech stack
• Designed a relational database schema of 50 tables via ERD modeling to support content management, user roles, and site data structures
• Migrated and seeded 450+ episodes and 300+ startup records from the legacy Wix platform into the new database architecture
• Independently delivered end-to-end implementation of the Events, Community, and Startups pages, from database design through frontend UI
• Documented REST APIs using Swagger to standardize API contracts and support integration across the team
• Conducted manual QA and performance testing using Chrome DevTools, identifying slow-loading pages and inefficient API calls
• Optimized API and server response times by up to 90%, reducing latency from 500–1000ms to 50–300ms through targeted query and endpoint optimization
• Implemented Redis-based rate limiting to protect APIs from abuse and ensure platform stability
• Wrote automated API tests using Jest to maintain reliability across backend endpoints

Shipped production features across three codebases in a TypeScript monorepo — schema design through full frontend integration, with all delivered modules deployed and actively used post-internship.

• Delivered 15+ end-to-end modules across 3 production codebases in a TypeScript monorepo, using Next.js, NestJS, tRPC, and PostgreSQL
• Migrated 5 legacy modules into the new system within a 6-day sprint, handling full-cycle delivery from schema design through backend endpoints and frontend integration
• Engineered a multi-role Clearance Module featuring approval/rejection workflows and AWS S3 integration for secure multi-format document uploads
• Architected 3NF-normalized PostgreSQL schemas to ensure data integrity and scalability across modules
• Built a government-standard RSMI reporting system and a Grades module with hierarchical filtering and PDF/XLSX export capabilities
• Implemented Framer Motion animations platform-wide to enhance UI/UX consistency
• Collaborated within a 4-member intern development team under mentor guidance, resolving critical Git merge conflicts to maintain codebase stability
• Successfully deployed all delivered modules to production, actively used by the company post-internship

Community technical leadership — guiding student projects and shipping web work for campus developer events.

• Project Lead (2025–Present): led student technical projects end-to-end
• Web Developer (2024–2025): contributed to community events, milestones, and campus tech initiatives