Chariot unlocks more Donor-Advised Fund gifts faster by integrating 3-click DAF giving into any donation form.

DAFs are critically important to nonprofits: there’s $46 billion donated from Donor-Advised Funds every year, growing 40% annually. 

DAF users are the highest-potential donors: The 2+ million people using DAFs make 24x larger gifts ($5k on average) and donate 6x more often (12x / year on average). 

The problem is that DAFs are impossible to use in standard fundraising flows, a processing nightmare for nonprofits to manage internally and $234 billion is still sitting in DAFs instead of in the hands of nonprofits. 

Nonprofits deserve their own solution to solicit, maximize, manage & steward DAF donors and their gifts - and it can’t wait anymore. 

Get on Chariot today 🐎

Activities and societies: The Campus, Middlebury Mamajamas, the Pranksters, Amnesty International

Middlebury College

Middlebury Summer Language School in Oakland, California.
http://www.middlebury.edu/ls

Activities and societies: Middlebury study abroad program. Spring semester 2015.

University of Jordan

Senior Software Engineer

• Led mission-critical projects for account setup team covering billing, onboarding, and other user journeys
• Engineering lead for overhaul of Crossbeam’s billing architecture, enabling company’s transition to product-led growth revenue strategy
• Collaborated with design and product to A/B test revenue-generating features, increasing retention among existing customers and driving growth
• Mentored junior developers on best practices, including test coverage, accessibility, and performance optimizations

Software Engineer

Led development of one-of-a-kind tool for higher education professionals researching the the labor market and university programs in the United States. Delivered project ahead of schedule and under budget.

• Built highly interactive data-visualization UX by integrating MapboxGL's APIs into a React frontend
• Developed Docker-based developer tooling for smooth handoff to Harvard's long-term support team
• Implemented caching in Redis to provide optimal performance, despite heavy DB load
• Architected CI/CD pipeline to AWS through Github, and built out cloud-first infrastructure
College-to-Jobs Map: the Project on Workforce at Harvard

Built loQL, a caching solution for GraphQL that runs natively in the browser.

• Recursively normalized GraphQL cache and leveraged GQL abstract syntax tree for efficient lookups; eliminating redundant API calls for identical subqueries and enabling offline APIs
• Interfaced with Service Worker API to intercept outgoing requests and proxy them per the policy (cache-first, cache-and-network) chosen by the developer
• Leveraged IndexedDB, the browser's persistent key-value DB, to keep the codebase fast
• Wrote multi-stage Docker image to keep production artifact lightweight for deploys
• Developed test suite using Jest and managed pipeline using Github Actions to keep codebase in a maintainable state for deploys to AWS infrastructure (EC2 w/ Nginx reverse proxy and SSL using LetsEncrypt)

Defense reporter covering the military under the Trump and Biden presidencies. Reported from Capitol Hill on the Trump impeachments, the 2020 Capitol Attack, and other breaking stories from Washington.

Designed and built software for other journalists covering Congress, including data aggregation and data visualization tools.