experience/cornell-design-&-tech-initiative.ts

Cornell Design & Tech Initiative

Developer Lead

Cornell University

scope

Oversaw development across Cornell DTI, a 100+ member student product organization, while staying hands-on with implementation and developer support.

selected work

  1. 01

    Helped teams build products for Cornell undergrads, professors, Disability Services, CULift dispatchers, housing search, course planning, office hours, student research, and DTI's own internal operations.

  2. 02

    Supported CoursePlan's automatic degree-requirement tracking, Queue Me In's office-hours queue and analytics, Carriage's accessibility ride scheduling, CU Apartments' housing reviews, and IDOL's 100+ member org automation.

  3. 03

    Guided React, Vue, Angular, React Native, Flutter, Node, Firebase, GraphQL, and native mobile teams through architecture decisions, release issues, and code review without turning leadership into distance from the code.

  4. 04

    Balanced hands-on implementation, product management, design collaboration, code review, mentoring, release support, and practical architecture decisions across multiple products.

  5. 05

    Worked with PMs, designers, TPMs, and developers to keep scopes clear, ownership explicit, and production releases moving across semester-based teams.

  6. 06

    Improved developer onboarding and review practices so teams could keep shipping software that real Cornell communities used.

stack

TypeScriptJavaScriptJavaSwiftKotlinDartReactAngularNodeFlutterVue.jsSvelteNext.jsGraphQLReact NativeMongoDBFirebaseFirestoreGitHubFigmaLeadershipREST APIsCI/CDMentorshipCode reviewProduct managementDesign collaborationDeployment pipelinesRelease supportDeveloper onboardingArchitecture reviewWebiOSAndroidMobileAccessibilityEdTechCampus apps