Software Engineer with experience as an individual contributor and team manager. Proficient in project management and specializing in front-end development, particularly with React, TypeScript, and SCSS.

Frontend Web Development

• Served as integral developer in re-envisioning and recreating core product handling vacation rental management and distribution using modern technology and industry groundbreaking automation connecting to 3rd party APIs.

• Drove efforts to craft structure of frontend applications including analyzing and determining frontend frameworks for company’s primary product offerings, shaping code standards, and standardizing design patterns.

• Collaborated closely with backend developers to determine and ensure highest standards for endpoint construction.

• Envisioned and led efforts to create internal website providing employees transparency to revenue and sales increasing visibility from 0 to 100%. Data retrieved without relying on short staffed backend development team.

• Designed, developed, and managed overhaul of marketing website. Deployed completed site 25% ahead of schedule.

Technical Leadership

• Hired and onboarded frontend developers building team from scratch. Compiled report’s individual annual reviews.

• Collaborated with offshore developers ensuring 24 hour coverage and mentored interns by fostering skill development.

• Championed agile methodologies by leading stand ups, monitoring kanban/sprint boards, and facilitating grooming.

• Served as liaison making meaningful contributions and decisions between frontend team and other teams.

• Bettered deployment efficiency and resolved inter-team conflict by reinventing process for build pipeline and git branch modeling resulting in 90% decrease of bugs making it into production.

Cultural Initiatives

• Promoted interdepartmental relationships with game nights, holiday activities, and quirky personalized name plates.

• Boosted office morale by coordinating charity snack shop, team outings, team lunches, and birthday decorations.

Technical Accomplishments

• Dove into middle of major marketing/ecommerce website reorganization and redesign project, quickly contributing to both frontend and backend code meaningfully.

• Served as key contributor in remake of primary product (custom photo storage and organization) application, making vital frontend architectural decisions. Quickly learned newly-chosen frontend framework, Vue.js.

• Rebuilt all automated emails and implemented clean design across all devices and platforms.

• Initiated and executed complete overhaul of company’s frontend style guide.

Company-Wide Initiatives

• Aided in the professional growth and development of co-workers. Served as mentor for non-engineers wanting to learn about coding data structures, writing tests in Rails, and versioning control (git).

• Promoted company-wide spirit by planning and organizing company activities and competitions, leading a project to create company yearbook outside of working hours, and adding fun twists to otherwise mundane team rituals.