Leading web application development. Helping to set frontend technical strategy. Developing spend management applications on the Procurement team.

Lead development of massive scale Node.js and React based applications used by PayPal merchants worldwide. As a tech lead on the Merchant Money team, my work included:

■ Leading a team of 7 engineers.

■ Development of web applications and a GraphQL service for thousands of merchants worldwide.

■ Leading our Global Expansion effort (scaling PayPal’s merchant money management to the rest of the world).

■ Mentoring developers.

■ Identifying and taking on difficult challenges that make a big impact

■ Delivering training and technology/process sharing presentations to teams across PayPal.

■ Providing technical leadership across multiple teams.

My accomplishments:

■ Led the front-end development of several new features that increased annual revenue by over $50 million.

■ Designed and developed a GraphQL service with 99.999% uptime serving over 20 million requests per day.

■ Dramatically improved team workflow and process through the introduction of effective Scrum ceremonies and practices.

■ Designed an errors module for GraphQL to be used PayPal-wide.

■ Developed a header logging plugin to allow for easier debugging of GraphQL services.

■ Designed a GraphQL directive for authorization to be used PayPal-wide.

■ Worked with the Web Platform team to develop a set of best practices and guidance for GraphQL within PayPal.

■ Helped create the GraphQL over HTTP sub-spec as a member of the GraphQL Foundation’s Technical Working Group.

■ Improved code reviewing culture by delivering presentations and creating an automated training to be used by all developers and managers at PayPal.

■ Represented PayPal as a TC39 delegate to help bring new features to the JavaScript language.

■ Won 1st prize in the 2019 Enterprise Services Hackathon (data caching in GraphQL).

Technologies:

JavaScript, node, node.js, JavaScript architecture, HTML5, CSS, GraphQL, Single Page App Architecture (SPA), React, Redux, microservices

Developed Node.js and React based applications used by millions of people worldwide. As a Senior Engineer on the UI Infrastructure team, my accomplishments included:

* Architected a widely used web app framework, greatly improving developer productivity.

* Improved app performance through code, reducing deployment costs by as much as 15%.

* Increased developer efficiency by reducing build times and adding hot module reloading.

* Restructured development configs and processes resulting in 32% less reported bugs.

My work included:

* Leading a team of 6 engineers.

* Mentoring junior developers.

* Identifying and taking on difficult challenges that make a big impact

* Delivering training and technology/process sharing presentations to Platform UI organization.

* Providing technical leadership across multiple teams.

Technologies:

React, Redux, JavaScript, ES6/7 (ECMAScript 2015/2017), GraphQL, Babel, Webpack, Node.js, microservices, NPM, HTML5, CSS3, GIT, Docker, Kubernetes

Developing Node.js and React based applications used by millions of people around the world.

Technologies Used:

React, Redux, JavaScript, ES6 (ECMAScript 2015), GraphQL, Babel, Webpack, Node.js, NPM, HTML5, CSS3, GIT

Helping to improve code quality for the #1 honeymoon registry. My work included:

* Building custom React components.

* Mentoring team members on code quality and best practices.

* Adding features and functionality to an existing PHP web application.

* Introducing automated development builds, continuous integration, and code analysis.

Technologies Used:

React, JavaScript, ES6 (ECMAScript 2015), Babel, Gulp, Webpack, Node.js, NPM, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JQuery, PHP, MySQL, GIT