I started developing software 10 years ago, when, as a math teacher, I saw an opportunity to improve communication between the staff and students around me. That first project was a Pandora's box for my development as a software engineer.

Experience

2020 — NowKnowifySoftware Engineer

2020 — Now

Greater New York City Area

2019 — 2020Galvanize IncSoftware Engineer in Residence

2019 — 2020

Greater New York City Area

Student Insights Dashboard

Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, Express, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker Compose

Develop authentication architecture by writing server-side middleware.

Instantiate session storage and user-invitation management in containerized Redis service.

Showrunner Message Manager

Technologies: Node.js, Google Calendar API

2012 — 2019NYC Department of EducationSingle Point of Contact for Technology & Mathematics Teacher

2012 — 2019

Brooklyn, NY

Hive at 442

Technologies: Node.js, Express, React, MySQL, Passport

Design and engineer single-page application to improve school

behavior and mentoring outcomes.

Decrease clerical workload for behavioral support staff by at least

90 hours per academic year.

Aggregate and analyzed behavioral data to author school’s first

report on potential implicit bias in behavior documentation.

CSV-and-Array

Technologies: Node.js, Regular Expressions

Engineered a set of methods returning JavaScript Promises for

reading, modifying and updating CSV files asynchronously.

Leveraged buffer streams to allow users to mitigate memory

consumption.

2012 — 2012University of Alabama at BirminghamSocial Media Editor

2012 — 2012

Define and implement new engagement strategies for Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, and Flickr accounts of the University's original student newspaper, The Kaleidoscope.

2011 — 2011University of Alabama at BirminghamCopy Editor

2011 — 2011

Edit Angner's "A Course in Behavioral Economics" (2012, Palgrave Macmillan) for consistency, clarity, and mathematical accuracy.

Revise faculty articles for academic journals.

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