Software Engineer, natural leader and strong communicator with over 5 years of experience in both backend and frontend technologies - with a common sense approach to building software that meets user requirements and business objectives.
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
San Francisco Bay Area
Consistently delivering high-impact solutions, driving significant improvements in system performance, security, and scalability. Key accomplishments include:
Leadership & Mentorship: Led teams through complex projects, setting high standards for coding, architecture, and best practices, and mentoring junior engineers to enhance team performance.
Tech Stack Expertise: Proficient in modern technologies including Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js in serverless and serverful infrastructure.
Business Impact: Contributed to solutions that drove substantial business growth generating over $1 million in daily revenue and significantly improving conversion rates.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: In IC and Lead Engineer capacities, coordinated with product managers, designers, and external partners to align project goals and ensure successful deliveries.
System Migration: Successfully migrated legacy systems to modern stacks, reducing security risks, improving performance, and lowering operational costs.
Observability & Monitoring: Implemented comprehensive observability and monitoring using Datadog and OpenTelemetry instrumentation, ensuring high system reliability and quick issue resolution.
CI/CD & Automation: Leveraged GitHub Actions and AWS CDK to automate deployments and infrastructure management, reducing deployment time.
Performance Optimization: Enhanced application performance and scalability, handling millions of requests per day with optimized serverless architectures.
Code Refactoring: Simplified and modularized complex codebases, reducing code duplication by 30%, improving maintainability, and accelerating feature development.
Productivity: Completed ~300 Jira tickets, reported ~250 Jira tickets, merged ~300 PRs into production with over 2,000 contributions, and reviewed ~350 PRs.
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Accomplished Senior Full Stack Engineer with a focus on curahome.com, demonstrating expertise in React, TypeScript, Python, Django REST Framework, MaterialUI, Celery, SugarCRM, and micro-services.
Led the technical design and implementation of features of varying complexity, ensuring seamless integration and exceptional user experiences.
Successfully built and extended the ResWare TPS (Title Production System) API, enhancing functionality and capabilities.
Developed secure backend APIs (micro-services) using Python/Django, TypeScript/Express, Azure Service Bus, and Celery, prioritizing data security and performance.
Played a key role in the development and production of a shared GraphQL service, enhancing efficiency and data management across the platform.
Orchestrated the creation and rollout of new features, leveraging strong project management skills to ensure successful deployment in production.
Exhibited a proactive approach by performing on-call duty for both backend and frontend services, ensuring system stability and prompt issue resolution.
2021 — 2022
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Developed maintainable and well-tested REST and Apache Thrift APIs in Python/Django
Developed reusable and well-tested components in React and TypeScript for the Doma Close product
Wrote Technical Design Documents (TDDs) for multiple medium to large projects - demonstrating architectural and execution skills
Actively participated in Quality Metrics Working Group that defines standards for software quality
Scaffolded the Transaction Management React Application including its integration with Auth0
Owned several high-impact features, taking them through all of the phases of work from scoping & planning to implementation
Stepped into the role of a Tech Lead for the back-end side of the team and took on many leadership responsibilities including co-leading work planning sessions, maintaining the backlog, and communicating with external stakeholders while the company was looking for an Engineering Manager
Technologies Used:
Backend: Python, Django, Postgres, Apache Thrift, Celery, RabbitMQ, Open Policy Agent, Docker, Kubernetes, pytest, Fast API
Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Testing Library, Material UI
Misc: Sumo Logic, CircleCI, Auth0, Amplitude
2020 — 2021
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Managed the marketing operations team
Migrated company's Dynamics CRM to Salesforce
Led roll-out of Salesforce to salespeople across the country
Key stakeholder in the company's rebrand and IPO efforts
Education
2012 — 2013
University of St Andrews
Master of Science (MS)
2012 — 2013
2021 — 2022
Carnegie Mellon University
Professional Certificate
2021 — 2022