I’m a software engineer passionate about fullstack engineering on the web, open source, and building useful tools. Outside of work, I’m into indoor gardening, fitness, trying new restaurants, and gaming.
I studied Computer Science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.
While I was in college, I interned at a bunch of places—Johnson & Johnson, IEEE, Codecademy, Mozilla, and Rackspace—which gave me a broad view of how different teams build and ship software.
After graduating, I joined Amazon, and later moved to Apple.
Around the same time, I started getting deeper into open source and shipping side projects, which became a big part of how I learn and share ideas.
I first got into programming after being invited to HackRU 2014 while I was in high school, where I built an excuse generator.
That project pulled me in, and over time I started building more things, learning by shipping and iterating.
I’ve built open-source tools, npm packages, and hobby sites, and I’ve contributed to community projects along the way.
Resumake.io is an open-source resume builder that grew to tens of thousands of monthly active users, was featured in Mashable, and picked up strong momentum on Reddit and elsewhere.
Resumake led me to publish LaTeX tooling like node-latex (run TeX subprocesses such as LuaLaTeX, pdfLaTeX, and XeLaTeX from Node) and formatters like pretty-latex. Separately, I’ve published other npm packages and small libraries, including Lynt, plus some work-related tooling that I’ve open-sourced. I also created Materialize, a popular Sublime Text theme collection back in the day. I’ve also contributed to community efforts like flow-typed.
I created proposals.es as a site for viewing ECMAScript proposals, and I’ve built hobby sites like zencuber.com, alongside other experiments and tooling on GitHub.
When I’m not working, I’m usually taking care of my plants, getting a workout in, or checking out new spots to eat, and I unwind with games and side tinkering.
I have a love of teaching—back in college I made programming tutorials on YouTube that picked up tens of thousands of views, which briefly had me thinking about pursuing teaching programming full-time. I’ve stepped away from that for now, though I may come back to it later.
I also have a great love for the color green.