Software Engineering Internship at Sport Sitters

Key contributions:

• Led a 6-person engineering team to architect and ship a full rebuild of the React Native MVP in just 4 months.

• Swapped out the legacy VOIP infrastructure for Twilio, writing a custom open-source Swift plugin to drastically reduce call drop rates and improve reliability.

• Deployed a real-time administrative dashboard alongside the core app to monitor platform health and handle management.

Impact:

• Set up a rock-solid engineering foundation with automated CI/CD pipelines and strict code standards to ensure the team could iterate quickly and safely.

• Slashed future developer onboarding time from 14 days down to just 4 days through clear architecture and extensive documentation.

• Maintained a daily deployment cadence that directly enabled the product to expand into new universities across California and Arizona.

Skills:

react native · expo · typescript · swift · firebase · google cloud platform · twilio · firecms · linear