Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
Ohio, United States
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ShoppingGives stands out as an all-in-one impact strategy, offering businesses a unique opportunity to provide customers with a seamless and native giving experience throughout their shopping journey. This social impact platform not only aligns businesses with non-profit organizations but also with consumer values, making it a powerful tool for businesses looking to make a difference.
• Lead Software Engineer for the development team.
• Responsible for architecting and technically designing new features to enhance giving.
• Worked with Event Sourcing/CQRS/RabbitMq to facilitate Event-Driven Architecture.
• Built new APIs and Microservices using technologies such as Typescript, C#, PostgreSQL, and
RabbitMq.
• Spearheaded the initiative to reduce cloud infrastructure costs by 30% in AWS.
• Built a framework to improve integration/unit testing throughout the stack using Typescript and
Sequelize.
• Improved CICD pipelines using technologies like Github Actions/AWS/ECS/Fargate and Docker.
• Worked heavily in AWS, leveraging Terraform to manage the cloud infrastructure via IAC.
• Built a Typescript Serverless API to support tight integration with Stripe API.
• Responsible for ensuring code quality and the timely delivery of new features.
• Mentored junior and intermediate developers.
2018 — 2023
2018 — 2023
San Francisco Bay Area
Songclip™ is the first Social Music API, offering a systemized solution for integrating and monetizing music across social and digital platforms, making music part of what's being created, shared, and sent.
• Developed a distributed system of microservices that supported the content ingestion flow.
• Created a GraphQL API that services multiple client/administration applications.
• Built a REST API for asset delivery while conforming to strict music industry standards.
• Built complex compound queries in Elasticsearch to improve Songclip's search engine.
• Built client-side applications in REACT/REDUX/NODE for sales purposes.
• Worked on migrating legacy code to Typescript.
• Used Terraform to migrate legacy GCP cloud infrastructure.
• Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by 50% in AWS.
• Migrated traditional EC2 deployments to Kubernetes.
• Improved CICD integration by using tools such as Docker and GitHub Actions.
2016 — 2018
2016 — 2018
Oakland, California
UtilityScore is an API that estimates utility costs for 100+ million homes in the U.S. It brings a new level of transparency to assess the true costs of buying, renting, and renovating homes.
• Developed a PWA using React and Node for sales purposes.
• Migrated legacy client UI web pages to React.js.
• Reduced labor times by 60% by optimizing a multi-threaded batch processing task which monthly.
• Responsible for DevOps related tasks.
• Worked on Iframe development that were used within partner web pages.
• Deployed a non-managed Master/Slave MySQL database for high availability.
• Maintained the primary website developed with PHP/JQuery/HTML/CSS.
• Developed web application using React/Redux/Node.
• Developed an SMTP server using Haraka.js to act as a man in the middle service.
• Implemented Test Driven Development methodologies to improve code reliability.
• Maintained cloud infrastructure on AWS.
2015 — 2016
2015 — 2016
Santa Clara, Ca
Bloodonor provides an easy way for users to have more control on how their blood donation are being used.
• Designed and implemented a client side scheduling application using React and Redux
• Implemented responsive design using BEM-style SASS
• Collaborated as a remote member or an Agile team
Education
California State University - East Bay