Full-stack software engineer, skilled in automation scripting, functional and object oriented programming, front and back-end web development. Proficient in design and implementation of data structures and databases. Architects, builds, tests, maintains, and supports software through the full product lifecycle.

Experience

2022 — NowDassault SystèmesSenior Software Engineer

2022 — Now

Built system enabling customers to securely execute custom scripts on Dassault’s hardware, and addressed security concerns by running these scripts in Docker containers.

Built system and settings for running non-simulation jobs in Docker containers.

Expanded and improved sharing API, to manage external files that will be accessible to containerized jobs.

Built scripts to enable running simulations and auxiliary jobs without directly calling API, and modified API to receive such calls.

Increased security and maintainability for Gitlab, Artifactory, and Jenkins, by migrating, upgrading, and Dockerizing servers. Maintained these systems by promptly applying security updates.

Decreased new engineer onboarding time and frustration by correcting and improving outdated documentation.

Increased security and modularity of large Grails application by refactoring to remove/replace vulnerable components, separate different functionality layers, and enable major version upgrades.

Transitioned database from MySQL to MariaDB, to support infrastructure changes.

2019 — 2022American WellFull-Stack Software Engineer

2019 — 2022

Boston, MA

Converted one-time customers (patients) to repeat visitors by building integration for doctors to order lab tests, receive results, and follow-up with patients through our telehealth platform.

Led team in managing bi-weekly AWS deployments of several microservices, ensured stable releases, fixed late-term problems, assessed risk and proposed mitigating strategies for remaining bugs, and verified success once deployed.

Saved ongoing labor through automated detection of production failures and streamlining monitoring process, by finding likely failure points, then creating dashboards and relevant alerts in AWS Cloudwatch and ArgoCD.

Built full-stack applications and microservices with Javascript, Java, SQL, Angular, Dojo, HTTP, CSS.

2018 — 2019CognizantDevOps/Build Engineer

2018 — 2019

Lowell, MA

Increased speed and reliability of 60+ nightly builds running 11K+ test suites each through parallelization, new in-house tools for change-based regression testing, and differentiation of hard vs. flaky test failures.

Maintained a large Jenkins cluster with 600+ nodes, CMS, and in-house web services for large financial corporation.

Provided support for other developers on system-level problems.

Practiced pair-programming in a scaled agile framework (SAFe) environment, with SQL, Perl, Bash, Groovy, Grails, Java, and Python.

2017 — 2018Trilogy Education ServicesSenior Tutor in Web Development

2017 — 2018

Boston, MA

Tutored 40+ web development students.

Achieved average student rating of 4.74 out of 5, across three metrics.

Guided students in building their own unique capstone projects.

Assessed diverse projects quickly, diagnosed and fixed logic and syntax, taught complex concepts and debugging processes using Object Oriented Programming, MySQL, MongoDB, Node, React, Git, Javascript.

2008 — 2018FreelanceMusician and Music Educator

2008 — 2018

Ran my own business for 16 years.

Taught 5-15 voice students, 4-6 music composition classes.

Broke down complex concepts into simple parts.

Collaborated in groups, accompanied students and self at piano, sang for 5+ choirs, ranging from classical to jazz to Scandinavian folk music, and a doo-wop band.

Toured Europe with professional singing groups.

Full-time musical career ~2008-18 continues part-time on the side through today.