I am a Software Engineer with a passion for the natural sciences and technology. I have experience programming in JavaScript/Typescript, Python, and Golang utilizing frameworks including Node/Express, Angular, React, & Django.

2024 — NowBetterworksStaff Software Engineer

2024 — Now

Seattle, WA

2021 — 2024BetterworksSenior Software Engineer

2021 — 2024

Seattle, Washington, United States

Designed and implemented notification engine in Golang leveraging event-drive architecture to reliably provide customer notifications across various channels.

Designed and implemented custom content repository to automate notification template creation and translations, providing customers with flexible controls for tailoring dynamic content.

Developed and delivered contract-derived OAS spec-compliant public API documentation, ensuring customers have access to comprehensive and strongly typed resource definitions. Implemented CICD pipelines to enable autonomous updates.

Refactored the customer-facing API to adhere to OpenAPI 3 specifications, providing internal development teams and customers with industry-standard tooling for documentation and generating API client code.

Designed and implemented microservices in Golang to handle RBAC application authorization, utilizing gRPC and Protocol Buffer for efficient communication.

Developed Python and Node SDKs to facilitate seamless communication with language-agnostic microservices.

Enhanced the local development workflow by integrating Docker containers, streamlining the development process and improving consistency across environments.

Implemented robust CICD pipelines using GitHub Actions and CircleCI, ensuring code quality and testing coverage through automated processes.

2018 — 2021Fresh ConsultingSoftware Engineer

2018 — 2021

Greater Seattle Area

Contributed to internal and public-facing applications serving customers in the commercial real estate and health insurance sectors. I utilized modern JavaScript frameworks (Angular & React) along with Python-supported server technology (Django) to provide cutting-edge services to commercial real estate brokers and the general public. Developed cloud infrastructure (AWS Certified) and resource containers (Docker).

Symetra:

Served as frontend developer lead for a public-facing health insurance portal, offering automated and accessible customer data via Angular and .NET technology frameworks.

Mentored developers and architected cloud infrastructure to support CI/CD in Azure and AWS.

Enforced code quality and best practices for a growing team of developers all contributing simultaneously.

CBRE:

Made extensive contributions to a major platform migration (AngularJS -> React), including implementing an intermediary solution to ensure stability in customer experience and new feature cadence.

Launched a major feature within the flagship commercial real estate product to enable automatic submission of commercial real estate deals, processing over $2 billion USD in 2019.

Implemented a React-based metrics platform with interactive graphs via D3 to empower the data science team with automated platform metrics.

Contributed to cloud architecture (AWS), server-side (Django), and frontend (React) features for a public-facing web application servicing commercial real estate customers in the San Francisco area.

Provided engineering solutions for interfacing with the Microsoft Graph API to enable platform syncing of customer contacts and emails.

2017 — 2018Fresh ConsultingJunior Software Engineer

2017 — 2018

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Worked with CBRE to build international commercial property voucher processing platform using Angular and Django with a focus on:

Accessibility

Internationalization

Performance

Modern UI with reusable components

2016 — 2017General AssemblyWeb Development Immersive Student

2016 — 2017

Seattle, WA

Studied full stack web development and garnered skills in Javascript, Python, modern frameworks (Angular, React, Node, Django), popular database applications (MongoDB, postgreSQL) and user experience focused web design via HTML5/CSS3. Completed 6 project sprints using agile workflow methodologies and version control.

Education

University of Arizona

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

General Assembly

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

Web Development Immersive