Increased Jest unit test coverage to ensure functionality of Node.js backend controllers to increase the reliability of a public site serving 150k users annually.

Carried out code reviews for engineers, ensuring engineering best practices, and led technical lectures for engineers on topics including the JavaScript DOM, React, Redux, and Authentication.

Mentored teams of engineers through the complete Software Development Life Cycle of an open source product to ensure effective collaboration, agile methodology, and proper workflow from ideation to deployment.

Conducted technical interviews to assess JavaScript knowledge, technical communication skills, problem solving ability and overall company culture fit of applicants.

Integrated Adobe’s React Aria library of hooks to create easily modifiable React components that are more compatible with screen readers and keyboard navigation to provide an accessible user experience

Created a Jest, Jest-Axe, and React Testing Library to run a parallel suite of unit tests to ensure functionality and reliability of new features, accuracy of React component rendering, and to catch fundamental accessibility issues

Utilized Docker to construct a containerized Apache Kafka server with synthetic client workloads used as an internal tool capable of being deployed on a variety of operating systems

Built Figma mockups to allow for easy iteration of application design and establish clear style objectives

Managed Jira and Confluence workspaces to organize scrum sprints and maintain proper Agile workflow