2024 — NowBetterworksStaff Software Engineer

2024 — Now

Backend-focused engineer leading a team of 5 developers migrating a production API from Django to NestJS (Node.js), including greenfield database schema and endpoint design, with emphasis on high-scale performance and reliability.

Key accomplishments:

Led a full rewrite of a legacy Django API to NestJS, including database schema redesign, endpoint redesign, and zero-downtime data migration, enabling long-planned product features

Led a successful MVP launch with minimal post-release defects

Designed and implemented a high-throughput, fault-tolerant data import system

Designed and shipped multiple Kafka-driven asynchronous features to improve decoupling and efficiency

Added extensive observability making troubleshooting easy

2022 — 2024BetterworksSenior Software Engineer

2022 — 2024

Developed full-stack applications using Vue and AngularJS for front-end and Node, Python, PostgreSQL for back-end.

Designed reusable components and state management patterns to enhance application performance.

Achieved a 20x speed optimization for backend endpoints, significantly improving user experience.

Documented TypeScript best practices to streamline development processes and improve team efficiency.

2018 — 2022Hyland Software (Perceptive Software)Senior Software Engineer

2018 — 2022

Remote

Extended and maintained 200K lines-of-code legacy web app built with JQuery and Backbone. Architected and developed our future client written with Angular and TypeScript. Maintained Jenkins script that builds, tests, and deploys web apps using Helm, Kubernetes, and Docker.