June 13, 2026 at 9:43 AM

I'm a full-stack software engineer working on AI video creation at HeyGen:

HeyGen

heygen.com

I initially joined as an intern the summer before the last year in my cs masters program. it was too exciting to leave, and I converted to full-time immediately after my internship ended, becoming HeyGen's first intern -> new grad hire. it's a lot of fun. here's some stuff I contributed significantly to or was responsible for:

• 🚢built and continue to own the entire frontend of our Video Agent
  • 🚢lead product exploration and decision-making for new features and upgrades
• 🚢AI studio (our video editor)
  • 🚢development and launch
  • 🚢voice mirroring
  • 🚢audio uploading / recording for avatar lip syncing
  • 🚢third party stock image, video, and music providers
  • 🚢background music
• 🚢an interactive voice clone creation experience
• 🚢emotion generation for voice clones
• 🚢voice library: better accent and emotion support, dynamically generated previews, user customizations
• 🔧implemented observability across frontend and backend voice domain
• 🔧cut down errors across critical voice endpoints by 50%
• 🔧improved frontend performance of voice features, in some cases from 15s to <1s load time
• 🔧built reliable voice cleanup pipeline which resolved frequent critical incidents
• 🔧wrote massive refactors across frontend and backend voice domain which sped up development and decreased incidents