The Evolution
Acquisition Journey
From intern at Terribly Tiny Tales to Engineering Lead — through an acquisition — over 2.5 years. Every company, every role, every project — documented below.
Collective Artists Network
Grew from a retained acquisition engineer to engineering lead over ~1.5 years. Contributed to building the production cloud architecture — VPCs, EKS clusters, data pipelines, and consumer products — while hiring and managing a pod of 3 engineers.
Roles
Sept 2024 – Apr 2026
Lead Engineer
Grew from individual contributor to engineering lead over ~1.5 years. Directly responsible for hiring and onboarding the current 3-person engineering pod via 20+ technical interviews. Managed root-level administrative access for production AWS environments. Standardized Docker and Kubernetes across all new projects for environment parity and horizontal scalability.
Sept 2024
Founding Full Stack Engineer
Helped build the post-acquisition technical foundation — setting up VPCs, EKS clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and the initial data platform. Worked across the production stack from infrastructure to application code.
Aug 2024
Acquisition — Retained Engineer
Retained as a core engineer through the TTT acquisition by Collective Artists Network based on delivery impact. Helped build the new technical foundation for the merged organization.
Projects
Enterprise Data Platform
Mar 2025 – Dec 2025
Built an ELT/DLT pipeline to address fragmented creator data across multiple APIs and legacy databases. Built on EKS + Dagster for orchestration, StarRocks + Athena for analytics. Managed a data lake of 10M+ records and optimized complex analytical queries from minutes to sub-2s response times.
10M+ records · queries: minutes → sub-2s · production
BBS (BigBang.Social) Brand Campaigns Platform
Mar 2025 – Jun 2025
Built the end-to-end onboarding and campaign management engine for global brands. Developed a secure, automated payment and status-tracking gateway that streamlined brand-to-talent collaboration.
70% manual overhead reduction · payment automation · brand-talent ops
Talent Tech & Ecosystem
Sept 2024 – Mar 2025
Built the internal platform for talent managers. Migrated legacy talent data into a React/Django environment, maintaining data integrity during the post-acquisition transition.
Data migration · legacy modernization · talent ops
Bruised Passports
Jan 2025 – Apr 2026
Led mobile engineering and DevOps for a travel content platform. Built Jenkins pipelines for both iOS and Android, automating Dev/Prod environments and streamlining the deployment process.
50% release time reduction · CI/CD automation · multi-env
Terribly Tiny Tales
Joined as a Software Engineering Intern at a Creative-Tech startup. Contributed to product launches and platform migrations from early on — leading to retention through the Collective Artists Network acquisition.
Roles
Dec 2023 – Aug 2024
Software Engineer Intern
Contributed to four production products across AI, mobile, and web. Delivered a Generative AI video pipeline under a 2-month deadline in collaboration with Hershey's. Supported payment provider migrations and maintained 99.9% uptime during peak Academy enrollment. Retained by Collective Artists Network through the acquisition based on delivery impact.
Projects
Yours Forever
2024
Built a Generative AI pipeline for a Hershey's collaboration. Transformed text prompts into orchestrated videos: Storyboarding → Voice Gen (Suno AI) → Image Gen (OpenAI) → FFmpeg video assembly. Delivered under a 2-month deadline.
GenAI pipeline · 2-month deadline · brand collaboration
TTT Academy & Academy App
Feb 2024 – Sept 2024
Supported the Academy portal and mobile app. Handled payment provider migrations and UI updates, maintaining 99.9% uptime during peak enrollment periods.
99.9% uptime · payment migration · mobile + web
Mini Mindful Moments
2024
Built a card generation platform for a Valentine's Day brand collaboration. Handled thousands of concurrent users creating and sharing digital content in real-time.
High-traffic · real-time sharing · brand collab
Centralized Admin Dashboard
Dec 2023 – Sept 2024
Maintained the internal "Control Center" for the TTT team. Iterated on features for user management, content moderation, and daily operations.
Daily operations · content moderation · user management