Hi, I'm Frank.
I'm a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer and app developer, continually exploring ways to create and share impactful ideas through technology. My work revolves around building systems and apps that unite people in meaningful ways.
Projects
Work Experience
Handshake
May 2025 - Present
Handshake
May 2025 - Present
Forward Deployed Engineer
Full-time
Aug 2025 - Present
- Owned a scaling lane across task architecture, environment QA, work decomposition, and team allocation for a 3,000+ task program tied to approximately $9M in revenue.
- Led an end-to-end, multi-domain delivery from asset conversion and validation through API upload, directly enabling at least $1.38M in billable scope and generalizing the tooling for reuse.
- Created reusable packaging, QA, registry, and delivery workflows for reinforcement-learning environments, reducing a recurring customer-documentation task from about a day to roughly an hour.
- Designed a shared AI gateway that migrated all production LLM traffic off a legacy path in under two weeks, added team-level cost attribution, and turned field insight into product improvements and durable operating playbooks.
Software Engineer Intern, iOS
Internship
May 2025 - Aug 2025
- Built product experiences with Handshake's iOS engineering team in support of connecting students with early-career opportunities.
Software Engineer Intern
Stealth Startup · Internship
Software Engineer Intern
Stealth Startup · Internship
- Developed a modular "Cluster Manager" to orchestrate multi-modal app actions (audio playback, animations, camera moves) in parallel with complex start/end conditions
- Emphasized thread-safety & concurrency control to ensure smooth updates under frequent user/server events
- Implemented a system for creating new users & conversations via an admin portal for regression testing & feature development
October 2024 - Present
Software Engineer Intern, Cloud
Roku Inc. · Internship
Software Engineer Intern, Cloud
Roku Inc. · Internship
- Architected & developed a MacOS Daemon in Swift to analyze & report Mac state changes
- Implemented a REST API in Go to allow third party devices to transmit state events to Roku's IoT cloud infrastructure
- Utilized Apache Kafka in the event processing pipeline to guarantee at-least-once delivery of state change events
May 2023 - Aug 2023
University of San Francisco
Jan 2022 - May 2024
University of San Francisco
Jan 2022 - May 2024
CS 272 Teaching Assistant
Part-time
Aug 2023 - May 2024
- Mentored students in using data structures & algorithms to build a full stack, web-based search engine in Java.
- Advised the development of clean, production level code by reviewing & asking students questions during office hours.
Computer Science Tutor
Part-time
Feb 2022 - May 2024
- Offered specialized tutoring for both undergraduate & graduate computer science students, covering diverse coursework, assignments, & project inquiries.
ENGR 102 Teaching Assistant
Part-time
Jan 2022 - May 2023
- Guided first-time programming students through debugging & coding Python programs.
Kodely Leader
Kodely · Part-time
Kodely Leader
Kodely · Part-time
- Taught after-school classes to young children, focusing on hands-on learning & practical application of building & prototyping real-world projects.
- Fostered a positive & inclusive learning environment, guiding children through the process of conceptualizing, designing, & constructing their own projects, while emphasizing teamwork & collaboration.
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022