Software Developer – Watzan LLC
Dec 2022 – Jul 2026
End-to-End Product Ownership
- Managed full product lifecycles, including stakeholder engagement, UI/UX design, full-stack development, testing, and maintenance to meet business objectives.
- Created, managed, and evaluated an annual computer science co-op internship program, actively mentoring students and overseeing their technical growth.
- Lead designer and developer for landing pages, including Fanter.ai.
Technical Client Success & Product Roadmapping
- Acted as the primary technical liaison for clients, actively listening to their requests to translate business needs into actionable development roadmaps.
- Owned the complete feedback loop: engineered requested features and bug fixes while maintaining transparent communication with clients from initial request through successful deployment.
- Cultivated strong client relationships by validating their feedback, managing expectations, and ensuring technical solutions directly aligned with their strategic goals.
AI & Computer Vision Engineering (Purple Crayon)
- Architected and launched an AI-powered writing evaluation platform for educators using Flutter and Ruby on Rails.
- Engineered a robust multi-pass OCR pipeline combining Google Cloud Vision and Gemini Pro Vision to accurately transcribe imperfect student handwriting.
- Developed a custom text-diffing and spatial-mapping algorithm to overlay grading feedback and highlights directly onto uploaded document images.
- Integrated OpenAI (GPT-4o) with custom prompt engineering to automate rubric-based grading and generate actionable student feedback.
Flutter & Mobile Development
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Lead Developer for Cross-Platform Apps:
- Elder (iOS | elder.com)
- Muzi (iOS | themuzi.com)
- Qollor (www.qollor.com)
- talk-health (talk-health.co)
- Optimized apps for mobile, tablet, and web platforms, incorporating custom animations and fluid user experiences.
- Integrated Firebase backends across platforms (Hosting, Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Storage, and Google Analytics).
- Implemented Node.js cloud functions (JS/TS) for scalable backend processing, alongside Google AdMob and secure Google/Apple OAuth integrations.
Ruby on Rails Full-Stack Development
- Led development of a high-performance search engine using PostgreSQL (ILIKE, pg_search), optimizing for full-text search and trigram similarity.
- Developed Rails API endpoints to securely bridge the backend with Flutter front-end mobile applications.
- Implemented secure user authentication with Devise, OmniAuth, and a custom one-time-password (OTP) system.
- Built extensive gamification systems, including group leaderboards, streak tracking, and badge systems with custom email/notification integrations.
- Created comprehensive admin dashboards equipped with real-time metrics, Sidekiq for background processing, and user management interfaces.
- Designed and implemented a metrics reporting module tracking daily/weekly inputs, page views, and activity, featuring date filtering and automated Excel exports.
- Managed AWS S3 migrations and integrated Active Storage for scalable and efficient file handling.
- Designed AI-driven profile recommendations and optimized overall platform performance, query efficiency, and SEO via custom meta tags.
