• Fullstack engineer launching Academia.edu Journals, a suite of peer-reviewed, open access scientific publications.

• Frontend lead for the journal microsites

• Work 1:1 with students to develop their engineering skills and non-technical growth

• Serve as point person between other residents and management to surface any potential issues

• Fostered the professional development of full-stack software engineers in training

• Mentored 100+ students on Javascript concepts and software engineering topics

• Provided technical assistance and shaped the critical problem-solving process of students

• Served as the product manager to develop the client’s proposed application to find, review, and save local coffee shops.

• Configured Facebook Developer API and Firebase to allow users to Sign In with Facebook.

• Created an endpoint in Next.js to dynamically generate unique pages using a Google Places id and render third-party and internal database content.

• Implemented a visit tracking feature to allow users to save coffee shops they’re interested in and have been to.

• Tech stack: React, Next.js, Vercel, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Firebase,

• Worked in an agile team of three to transform a growing e-commerce app to reliably handle 120k requests per minute.

• Replaced a monolithic legacy API with a highly scalable service-oriented RESTful API.

• ETLed 10 million rows of raw data and read-optimized the database for average query times of 12ms.

• Ensured consistent service up to 1500 RPS with average response times of 70ms and 0.00% error rate using Nginx load balancing and caching to scale horizontally.

• Tech stack: Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, AWS, K6, New Relic, Loader.IO, Nginx