Lead full stack software engineer with demonstrated experience leading a team of developers. Proficient in Ruby on Rails, React.js, Javascript, Python, HTML, CSS, SQL, Matlab, and Java. Published neuroscience researcher. Received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Biomedical Engineering and Italian from Yale University.

Experience

2024 — NowBanquet HealthFull Stack Software Engineer

2024 — Now

San Francisco, California, United States

2022 — 2024NorthstarSenior Software Engineer

2022 — 2024

Worked as a full stack software engineer with equal emphasis on backend and frontend development

Enhanced the user web portal, creating new features, pages and a library of reusable frontend components written in React and Typescript, and serving data via GraphQL from Ruby on Rails backend and PostgreSQL database

Implemented multi-factor authentication using Webauthn passkeys for added security and ease of login experience

Integrated with financial and employee record database APIs, broadening Northstar's reach for employer onboarding and user financial planning

Wrote unit and feature tests to ensure code quality as the application expanded

Contributed to site-wide effort to ensure adherence to all Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

2020 — 2022Rooster Grin MediaLead Full Stack Software Engineer

2020 — 2022

San Francisco, California, United States

Worked closely with CEO, as part of executive leadership team, to direct the advancement of the company as a whole, managing company applications and all full stack software engineers

Created HIPAA compliant SaaS applications for the healthcare industry, facilitating patient communication and lead management with user-friendly web services, developed in React

Maintained and scaled sites and servers on AWS, utilizing a large suite of tools including EC2, RDS, SES, SNS, S3, Cloudwatch, and Lambda

Integrated a Ruby on Rails backend and PostgreSQL database with external patient data management softwares via RESTful APIs, and served as company representative with all integration partners

Directed the development of new products and services based on personal vision, team collaboration and client feedback

Supported existing software by communicating with clients, investigating and fixing bugs, and providing feature enhancements

2019 — 2020Rooster Grin MediaFull Stack Software Engineer

2019 — 2020

San Francisco Bay Area

Built a Screen Pop service for VoIP clients, integrating with a partner API via XMPP communication for real-time call data, and serving voicemail text and audio data to the client via AWS (SES, SNS, S3) email parsing

Created a first-in-its-field existing patient online scheduling web portal, built in React and Ruby on Rails

Enhanced practice/patient communication systems, as COVID shutdowns prompted a shift in client needs

Led the expansion of services to international clients.

2016 — 2018NYU Langone Medical CenterResearch Associate

2016 — 2018

Greater New York City Area

Set up a new neuroscience lab with Dr. Nicolas Tritsch as his sole original hire, serving as researcher, data analyst, acting lab manager, and administrator

Investigated cellular activity during Parkinson’s Disease and its treatment, using Matlab to synchronize and analyze in vivo calcium imaging data with mouse behavioral data, extracting relevant information and creating figures (Published in 2021: https://elifesciences.org/articles/68041)

Conducted an independent project to describe GABA co-release from midbrain dopamine neurons through cell culture and whole-cell electrophysiological recordings, analyzing results in Matlab

Managed the lab’s mouse colony, including general organization, breeding, and all genotyping

Trained two replacements

Education

2011 — 2015

Yale University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

2011 — 2015

2017 — 2018

New York University _ Graduate School of Arts and Science

PAC Program in Computer Science

2017 — 2018