Lead initial planning, research and development of Policygenius’ first mobile app, which features a new estate planning planning product. The app and its supporting micro services were built using Flutter, GraphQL, Golang, gRPC, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud. We are also developing an estate-planning web application built on Typescript, React and the Apollo GraphQL client.

Our team is responsible for creating and maintaining services that support the estate planning product, including a scalable custom legal document generation pipeline and a PCI compliant payment processing service.

Full stack generalist, primarily using React (Typescript, Redux), GraphQL, Golang, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes.

Contributed to, and eventually led, development supporting Pg’s core life insurance business. Planned bi-weekly agile sprints that delivered consumer-facing A/B tests and analytics, built an admin interface for our life insurance underwriting+quoting engine to enable non-engineering employees to update carrier rules, and optimized our services’ build times in CI.

Member of a DevOps guild whose charter was to help teams create out-of-the-box dev environments and co-led a testing initiative to review existing test suites and establish standards and guidelines for different tool sets.

While at HackReactor, I developed a video conferencing/screenshare tool and Chrome extension by leveraging WebRTC, Socket.io, React, Redux, PostgresQL. This allowed mentors to remotely discuss and guide students through their code while also tracking key metrics to track support performance.

As an instructor at Hack Reactor, I was responsible for providing support to our Lead Instructor in developing curricula and giving lectures for immersive program. I mentored students on thesis project application architecture and implementation. On top of that, I developed a proprietary remote help desk app for internal use to enhance support for junior-phase immersive students.

More generally, it's our job to guide Hack Reactor immersive students to success by offering technical guidance, project troubleshooting, instruction, and mentorship on JavaScript fundamentals and problem-solving skills. Responsibilities include fostering an understanding of various frameworks (React.js, AngularJS, Backbone), libraries and best practices through team check-ins, one-on-one meetings, and specialized presentations.

I was also responsible for teaching the curriculum of our part-time night class, ReactorPrep, a thorough introduction to the fundamentals of JavaScript. I taught this class to students of all experience levels, from those with no experience to high-level software engineers looking to add JavaScript to their repertoire. I also led night and weekend workshops for those seeking to gain a greater understanding in particular JavaScript concepts.

At BrandYourself, I developed custom Wordpress websites aligned with comprehensive branding strategies to help clients shape their presence on the internet by researching and employing SEO best practices, focusing on optimizing load times and writing quality content. Primarily used HTML, CSS, PHP, and Wordpress CMS.