Portfolio
Currently, at Figma
I’m an Engineer at Figma, working on making FigJam the highest quality online whiteboard. My most recent project was FigJam
AI—alongside
Natasha Tenggoro, Albert Song, Dan Meija, and
so many others.
Other projects to mention: new-file
placeholders with Khalil Cader, Andrew Schmidt, Mihika Kapoor; designs for Figma Chrome extension.
Mapbox
From 2021—2022, I worked at Mapbox, primarily creating Mapbox Search JS.
This was a web library for Typeahead search
geocoding—and effort to overhaul the existing Mapbox GL Geocoder.
The library is fully accessible & themable, and uses Web Components
with various bindings.
I also worked on the Map Design
team with a focus on Mapbox Studio and
open-source software.
DJI Research
From 2019—2021, I worked at DJI as an intern, then took a Leave of
Absence during the pandemic to work full-time.
I was an
Engineer, and later a Product Manager, within the DJI FlySafe
program. FlySafe restricts drone flights to authorized users (through LAANC,
the FAA program) and qualified entities.
In 2020, I initiated
compliance with the NIST 800-53 Medium (“FedRAMP”) framework. This
included authoring over 70 controls, fielding outside vendors, and helping
guide the Eng Team towards compliant solutions.
Earlier contributions (as an intern, contractor)
Research
In 2021, as part of my undergraduate program at Penn State, I wrote a
paper titled: “Performance Analysis of WebAssembly and JavaScript Engines for
Common Geospatial Algorithms.”
I rewrote part of TURF.js, a popular JavaScript geospatial library, in C++ so I could compare
performance characteristics with WASM.
The research only
showed statistically significant performance benefits in Safari. As both
JavaScript and WASM are moving targets, this research is likely
outdated—but the methods are hopefully reproducible.