Passionate and experienced Software Engineer (Front-End) with 5+ years of building, scaling, and refactoring applications, authoring technical documentation and developing unit tests.

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2023 — 2026Sierra Nevada CorporationSoftware Engineer II

2023 — 2026

Mentored and guided interns, establishing agile workflow standards that accelerated project delivery and ensured 100% of milestones were met.

Engineered CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, authoring custom YAML configurations for automated builds, tests, and deployments to AWS (ECR).

Transitioned codebase from Vanilla JavaScript to React with Typescript and Tanstack

Expanded Jest test coverage by 22%, reducing regression bugs and improving code reliability.

Optimized frontend architecture by implementing code splitting and lazy loading, reducing initial load time by 11%.

Architected scalable RESTful APIs using Django and Python, implementing secure JWT authentication

Streamlined the UI/UX design process by implementing Figma for wireframing and prototyping, resulting in faster iteration cycles and improved design consistency

2022 — 2023ShortcutSoftware Engineer

2022 — 2023

Collaborated with product managers, and designers to update the single page application styling, resulting in a 17% increase in customer retention.

Increased application speed by 6% by integrating GraphQL to help with pagination and filtering.

Built resuable react components for integration throughout the codebase.

Authored tech documentation to breakdown complex problems and identify possible solutions.

Refactored application's layout for design unity and to bring them into alignment with WCAG guidelines, increasing accessibility by 5%.

Reviewed and tested team member's PRs to help ensure quality of code and meet our development goals.

2021 — 2022NexientSoftware Developer

2021 — 2022

Composed and implemented SQL queries in MySQL to update, delete, and modify data in the application.

Developed end-to-end and unit tests for React components with 100% coverage using Jest.

Introduced new methods of code reviews, reducing overlap between engineers.

Built single page applications and React components from Figma wire frames and mockups.

Presented and demoed updated styling and changes to the application for the client.

Mentored and onboarded new and junior developers to the codebase.

Developed Wiki Documentation to aid in the process of faster integration with new team members

Researched new technologies, software packages and hardware products for use in website projects.

2020 — 2021Prosperity Enterprise ServicesFrontend Developer

2020 — 2021

Ecorse, Michigan, United States

Designed, implemented, and deployed website using HTML, CSS/SASS, and Javascript, generating over $10,000 in revenue.

Implemented responsive designs, and performed site wide audit to meet WCAG accessibility standards.

Scripted copy and optimized SEO, increasing customer engagement and leads by over 10%.

Applied A/B testing to determine best layout, improving overall page visits by 12%.

Developed website experience across multiple web browsers, ensuring cross-platform usability across desktop and mobile devices.

2017 — 202120Something & Living PodcastMedia and Communications Specialist

2017 — 2021

Write, design, schedule, and monitor social media content across various platforms- Increased Twitter engagement by over 200% (Some tweets even went viral)

Developed media plans and increased downloads and viewership by over 23%

Pitched and wrote original articles for website’s blog and boosted traffic toward the site

Created effective incentive marketing strategies, including having some of our viewers coming on to the show, increasing user engagement.

Launched weekly content newsletter/email campaign to highlight upcoming topics on the show, which increased subscribers by 40%

Education

University of Michigan

Experience+

Education

Journalism/Communications