Full Stack Developer with 7 years of expertise in designing and developing user-friendly, accessible, responsive web applications. Skilled in modern frameworks like React with an emphasis on performance optimization and seamless user experiences.

Experience

2020 — 2023IBMSenior Full Stack Software Engineer

2020 — 2023

Austin, Texas, United States

Contributed to core development of open source tools that provide millions of users a way to debug the accessibility of their website.

Direct impacts of my work led to 23% improvement in accessibility compliance year over year. Leading to 100’s of millions in captured revenue by IBM products yearly.

ibm.com/able: Implemented over 90% of the sites frontend using React deployed with Docker.

IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker: Planned and created a dynamically drawing tool to visualize highlighted bugs on a webpage.

Technology: React, Javascript, CSS, HTML, JSX, VSCode, Typescript, Node.js, Docker, Gatsby, and CouchDB, axios

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2018 — 2020IBMResearch Software Architect - Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

2018 — 2020

Designed and developed an web event driven architecture to check the accessibility on web pages.

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Technology: Javascript, CSS, HTML, VSCode, and Node.js

2015 — 2017IBMIBM Watson: Cognitive Robotics Technical Lead

2015 — 2017

Austin, Texas

Led a team of 20 people all working toward building cognitive AI embodiments.

Consulted and brainstormed with C-suites and VPs at over 10 Fortune 500 companies to explore strategic ways to add Watson AI and robotics into their products.

Robotic Concierge: Conceptualized, implemented, and deployed a robotic concierge to help Hilton customers navigate the hotel and the surrounding area using natural language.

Chef Watson Robot: Connected IBM Watson’s Cooking AI to create an active kitchen assistant that explores ingredients with a cook creating dynamically generated recipes for them to cook.

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Technology: REST, Python, Matlab, Vim, Unix/Linux, CouchDB, ROS, PCL, OpenCV, Watson AI APIs, NAO Robot, Pepper Robot

2014 — 2014The University of Texas at AustinTeaching Assistant: CS 378 Autonomous Intelligent Robotics

2014 — 2014

I taught CS 378 Autonomous Intelligent Robotics, introducing students to a real robotics system, the Segbot platform. The Segbot is a homegrown autonomous robot built on a segway base.

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2011 — 2014Intel CorporationGraduate Technical Intern

2011 — 2014

Austin, Texas

Working in pre-silicon validation, I verified Intel’s mobile processors (Atom, Celeron and Pentium) before they were sent for fabrication.

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Education

2012 — 2014

The University of Texas at Austin

Master of Science - MS

2012 — 2014

2009 — 2012

The University of Texas at Austin

BS

2009 — 2012