Engineer on Analyze and Paid Experiences cross-functional team, contributing to the Typescript and React-powered (React 18) frontend and Node.js (Node 18) backend of the team’s focal application - an application for users to be matched with lenders for personal loans.
Lead effort in creating a Multi-Match feature allowing users to be matched with multiple lenders, which increased NerdWallet’s personal loan lead revenue by 20%.
Managed infrastructural tasks such as maintaining our hosted services on AWS and Aptible and using DataDog to monitor service health.
Supervised and guided junior and contractor engineers with pair programming and delegating tasks by writing up epics and tasks in Jira.
2021 — 2022
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Mailchimp was acquired by Intuit.
2017 — 2021
Greater Atlanta Area
Refactored MailChimp’s subscription payment checkout by updating the front-end legacy Dojo code to React. Integrated and maintained the payment processing services - with projects enabling easier in-app purchases in South American countries, resulting in a 18% profit jump in that locale.
Restructured MailChimp’s plan subscription service to enable paid users to access more features in tiers. The services were built out in PHP using an in-house MVC framework, with models tied to a PostgreSQL database instance.
Addressed and solved high value customer’s issues, using BigQuery and parsing through ElasticSearch.
2015 — 2017
+Currently working on and maintaining an inventory and asset tracking application for the engineers at Cisco, which will be deployed internationally upon completion. It's built using NodeJS on the backend communicating with MySQL databases, and the front end being composed of BackboneJS views and HandlebarsJS templates.
+The application is an upgrade to a former piece of software that's severely outdated. At the moment, hundreds of engineers in the RTP area use our application internally with great success.
+In the processes of migrating, redesigning, and redoing project manager tools with Python, using Flask to deal with the server-side with a MySQL data layer.
+Training new developers to onboard them onto current projects as well as teaching them new skills to become better programmers.
2014 — 2015
+ Developed a Credit History application within the teller software, which allowed 800,000 clients statewide to receive their Credit History for free, allowing SECU to be nationally recognized by President Obama for its utility to citizens.
+ Wrote SQL reports that query live business transactions and teller activities within the software as deliverables to the Board of Directors and hundreds of branch managers across the state, increasing teller performance within the institution by 15%.
+ Refactored web service code base written in JavaScript and C#.
+ Resolved and discovered defects found in the teller software.
Education
2008 — 2012
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelor of Science (BS)
2008 — 2012