BACKGROUND
Experience.
I've spent most of my time building my own products and learning by shipping. Here's the full picture.
01WORK2024 to Now
Founder & Engineer
@ LearnDari
- Built a full-stack Dari language-learning platform solo, handling product, design, engineering, and all native audio.
- Rebuilt the entire product in ~4 weeks as a bun monorepo: a Next.js web app and an Expo / React Native iOS app sharing one TypeScript lesson engine.
- Shipped 278 lessons across speaking and reading/writing tracks, 1,454 vocabulary words, an adaptive placement test, and spaced-repetition review that syncs across web and app.
- Built a custom in-browser CMS with autosave, version history, an audio recorder, and a native-speaker verification queue.
- Launched paid subscriptions (Stripe on web, Apple IAP in app); 70% of ended trials have converted to paid.
NEXT.JSREACT NATIVESUPABASESTRIPEFULL-STACK
02WORK2024 to Now
Business Systems Analyst
@ Geneva Discount Furniture
- Migrated the business from pen-and-paper to QuickBooks Online for invoicing, payments, returns, and customer history.
- Built a custom inventory system tracking 2,000+ items across 3 warehouses, reducing stock incidents by 30%.
- Architected and launched a Shopify store, enabling online sales for the first time in the business's history and driving $17K in sales and ~100 daily active users.
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03WORKSummer 2023
Data Management Intern
@ Securian Financial
- Audited enterprise data quality and presented findings to senior stakeholders, shaping future data-governance work.
- Published an internal data glossary used company-wide to improve data literacy across teams.
DATA GOVERNANCEANALYTICS
04WORKFall 2024
Teaching Assistant
@ University of Hawaii Manoa
- Supported instruction in Excel, Tableau, and HTML for a business-technology course.
- Led discussions on technology-enabled business strategy, helping students apply IT tools to real problems.
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05EDUCATION2020 to 2024
B.S. Computer Science
@ University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- Graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
- Coursework in algorithms, operating systems, databases, and software engineering.
- Exchange semester at the University of Hawaii Manoa.
ALGORITHMSSYSTEMSDATABASES