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Founding Engineer
Fanon • Fulltime
Feb 2024 - Present • 2 yrs 9 mos
Built the core platform from 0 to 1 for UGC fan-fiction, shipped both the Android and iOS apps to their respective stores, which have around 250K users, averaging 5K DAU and 40K MAU. • Designed and shipped 3 in-house Generative AI content-generation tool integrations end-to-end, from architecture to deployment, which enables creators to generate content directly on Fanon. • Proposed, designed, and developed an Engagement seeding system that led to an overall 36 percent increase in D1 retention and over a 45 percent increase in D7 retention of creators. • Developed an internal SDK to capture impressions on different platforms that increased the efficiency of recommendations by 27%. • Engineered a Video transcoding service (Python, FastAPI, ffmpeg) to enable HLS rendering of videos, optimizing for low buffering times. • Architected and developed a platform for creators to upload their works (using Convex- a WebSocket Database, Node.js, and Next.js), which led to a huge change in the content library with over 50K episodes published to date across different mediums. • Created a self-deployed service to enable transformations of images, cutting out third-party providers' costs and saving $2000 per month. • Worked on setting up infrastructure for push notifications on iOS and Android apps, increasing retention of users on the app by 42.5%. Co-built the backend infrastructure for it through Customer.io, Convex, and Messaging queues to enable support for a decentralized notification system • Led multiple authentication migrations from Clerk to NextAuth and later to Supabase, giving us full ownership of user data and session logic, leading to easier-to-debug auth issues. • Led a team of 4 people on the platform team, owning the roadmap, clearing blockers, and shipping features. • Engineered a high-performance short-video feed on both web and mobile-app platform by optimizing rendering, scroll virtualization, media preloading, and playback lifecycle management.