Highlights
At Arcadia, I founded the Utility Tariff Data Squad, responsible for acquiring, modeling, and publishing electricity tariff data for every US electric utility. As founding engineering and product manager, I led remote teams from Latin America to the Philippines to India. My work included prototyping an AI tariff document extraction system by fine-tuning an open-source model with proprietary data.
At Genability, I co-created a new customer facing role, providing custom technical solutions to climate tech companies. I led needs-finding sessions with customers, led research and prototyping efforts, and delivered functional software, documentation, and implementation guidance.
I am a co-founder of Swing Shift Studio, an immersive theater and art fabrication company. Since 2019, I have led multiple large-scale projects through development, fundraising, production and performance. I have led teams of 30+ people and managed budgets up to $25,000. Our work has shown in several West Coast art festivals and self-produced exhibitions.
As editor of Street Sheet, I led a design refresh of the newspaper and a marketing campaign to promote it. I won competitive grant funding, led a committee of seven people, collaborated with a designer on a new logo and visual design, created an ad concept and wrote copy, earned local media exposure, and organized a successful launch event.
Skills
Programming languages JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Java, Arduino, HTML, CSS
Frameworks, Libraries & Tools React, Redux, GraphQL, Django, Express, Flask, Rails, Svelte, Spring, Pandas, Leaflet
Hardware DC power systems (solar + batteries), low-voltage DC circuits, microcontrollers (Arduino/ESP32/RPi), AC power distribution, motor control, CAD
Digital Media Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere, Audacity, Final Cut, OBS
Work Experience
Staff Positions
Arcadia
Product Manager IV November 2022 - April 2023
Founder of Utility Tariff Data Squad. Led remote teams in three time zones on internal tariff data tools. Led user research sessions, built prototypes, and shipped new features to improve operations efficiency and throughpout.
Software Engineer IV September 2021 - November 2022
Full-stack engineering for internal tariff data modeling tools. Designed, built and shipped integration features across multiple services from newly-acquired companies, written in a combination of Rails, Python, Typescript, GraphQL, and React, enabling new capabilities for Arcadia’s Arc platform.
Genability (acquired by Arcadia)
Solutions Engineer June 2020 - September 2021
Led customer needs-finding sessions and built custom technical solutions for Genability customers. Led architecture and engineering of new tariff modeling tools built in React and Typescript, including management of three remote engineers, to reduce maintenance overhead and increase operations efficiency.
Software Enginer December 2014 - August 2016
Built front-end interfaces to Genability’s APIs. Designed and implemented interactive data visualizations using D3 and Angular, illustrating complex energy usage and cost data. Designed & built re-usable component system, enabling rapid composition of new visualizations.
Street Sheet
Editor-in-Chief December 2013 - February 2015
Managed all content, layout, and printing of bi-weekly newspaper, distributed for free to low-income & unhoused vendors. Recruited and trained volunteer contributors. Coordinated vendor program. Led design refresh and marketing campaign. Increased vendor revenue by increasing suggested donation amount and providing free vendor uniforms.
Freelance/Contract
Freelance Software Engineer
2007 - present
I provide full-stack software engineering services to businesses, universities and nonprofits, specializing in data visualization and online publishing. Key recent projects include:
- Full-stack engineering on Election Databot & Capitol Words for ProPublica (2018)
- Converting 7 years of archived ProPublica news applications from AWS ElasticBeanstalk to AWS ECS (2018)
- DemARK, a set of demos and documentation for EconARK using Jupyter notebooks, with Open Tech Strategies (2018)
- Full-stack engineering for Workbench, a GUI-based data analysis platform for journalists sponsored by Columbia Journalism School (2017-2018)
- Design, development and deployment of Digital Citizen, a multilingual publication on digital civil rights in the Middle East, for Electronic Frontier Foundation (2014-2015)
Avocational
Swing Shift Studio
Co-founder February 2019
I produce, design and fabricate immersive theatre installations, integrating a wide variety of creative disciplines. My roles have included development, fundraising, team management, construction, writing, audio production, lighting design, embedded systems programming, animatronics, graphic design, logistics, live performance, and more.
Education
San Jose State University
Bachelors of Science, Journalism
Climatebase Fellowship
Cohort 4 Winter 2023
Led peer education session on electricty pricing data.
Sunlight Foundation
Internship Summer 2011
Contributed to public-facing projects and internal tools such as Sarah’s Inbox, Cluster Explorer, and Muni Words. Wrote blog posts exploring money in politics.