A slow admin dashboard usually means someone hid network latency inside a nice-looking graph. I sped up an old Rails dashboard by parallelizing Google Analytics queries and caching time-bucketed results.

An internship search shouldn't force students to rebuild the same filters every time they come back. I built the flow so criteria persisted, geolocation stayed queryable, and search results could turn directly into resume drops.

Autosave gets tricky when the same field can be creating a record one moment and updating it the next. In Generations, quick edits on secondary parameters exposed that edge, so I collapsed create and update into one route and made the write path idempotent enough for rapid input.

An autosave feature is easy to pitch and easy to get wrong. The real work was making sure form writes survived unstable internet, page reloads, and rapid-fire input across a Rails app full of live data entry.

Security features get worse when they surprise people. In Generations and Reflections, I built a session monitor that warned before sign-out, let the user extend the session with a small interaction, and fixed the timer bugs that could have signed them out anyway.

Trip checkout looked simple from the outside. Underneath it was a queue-driven workflow across Stripe, Rails, and a slow external CRM that needed to fail visibly instead of silently.

Atlas Obscura's API needed to be more than a set of Rails controllers. It needed predictable errors, sane account-linking rules, and tests the app team could trust.

A small profile feature turned into a nice full-stack problem: query the right countries, render a reusable stamp component, and expose the same data to the app.

The interesting part of app work in a mature Rails codebase isn't the endpoint. It's the combination of API contracts, moderation tools, and product logic that keeps mobile and web aligned.

At Skillit, I needed unread counts to stay correct for both workers and employers. A per-conversation read counter ended up being simpler and more reliable than tracking every message.