Welcome inBoston, MA

Hi, I'm Mai. CS + Math senior at Northeastern.

I enjoy backend development and data engineering. Outside of software engineering, I usually read, swim, cook, or get halfway through some TV show.

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01Experience

Places I've built & grown

  • Member of Technical Staff Co-op

    Agency AI (Sequoia-backed Series A startup)

    I built AI health scores, broadcast tooling to reach every customer across channels, and pipelines that backfill and ingest product data from warehouses, customer sources, APIs, and S3 buckets. I also ran zero-downtime migrations off old systems onto new ones, and optimized queries and precompute to cut costs.

    PythonTypeScriptPostgresClickHouseDuckDBElasticsearchTemporalKubernetesPulumiDopplerPostHogDatadog
    May 2025 – Dec 2025 · May 2026 – Aug 2026
  • Technical Lead

    Generate Product Development Studio

    The jump from building what I was handed to deciding what gets built. I owned the architecture: roadmap and vision, ticket breakdown, technology choices, and system and database schema design. I set up the codebase, enforced code quality through CI/CD, and mentored engineers who were about where I had been a year earlier.

    PostgresGoTypeScriptReactReact NativeExpoAWS S3
    Jan 2025 – May 2025 · Jan 2026 – May 2026
  • Software Engineer

    Generate Product Development Studio

    I showed up knowing Racket and not much else. This is where I found out what an API and a database actually are, and I learned them by building real client features: vector embedding search, S3 media storage, onboarding, and push notifications.

    PostgresMongoDBGoTypeScriptReactReact NativeAWS S3
    Jan 2024 – Jun 2024 · Sep 2024 – Dec 2024
03Bookshelf

On my nightstand

Books I've read this year, plus the one I'm in the middle of. Two book clubs and whatever I pick up on my own, so my backlog is never empty, and many of them are amazing recommendations from my mom and my coworkers.

Most recentKafka on the Shore · Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the ShoreHaruki Murakami
02The House of the DeadFyodor Dostoevsky
03The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky
04Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky
05StonerJohn Williams
06The StrangerAlbert Camus
07Killers of the Flower MoonDavid Grann
08The WagerDavid Grann
09Salt: A World HistoryMark Kurlansky
10The Mind-Gut ConnectionEmeran Mayer
11Vita ContemplativaByung-Chul Han
12Non-thingsByung-Chul Han
13Saving BeautyByung-Chul Han
14The Agony of ErosByung-Chul Han
15The Burnout SocietyByung-Chul Han
16The Palliative SocietyByung-Chul Han
17The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry
18MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
19The Wisdom of InsecurityAlan Watts
20When Things Fall ApartPema Chödrön
21Zen Mind, Beginner's MindShunryu Suzuki
22Man's Search for MeaningViktor Frankl
04In the kitchen

Cooking & feeding people

I love cooking and experimenting with food. Some days that means dinner on the table at home, other days it means trays and trays of prep (and unfortunately a lot of dishes to wash). A few things from lately.