Collaborative Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience. Skilled in API development, cloud services, and startup environments, adept at crafting scalable solutions and fostering agile collaboration.

Experience

2024 — NowLaunch Consulting GroupSenior Software Engineer

2024 — Now

Contracting for AvalonBay Communities

Enhanced cloud security and data protection by implementing least-privilege access controls for CloudFormation and CDK stacks and securing sensitive document distribution with signed CloudFront URLs.

Significantly reduced the number of production defects and accelerated development cycles by implementing a robust unit testing framework.

Optimized microservice communication with event-driven architecture, reducing ETL and API query dependencies.

2022 — 2023GrazzySoftware Engineer

2022 — 2023

Collaborated closely with product management, UX design, and front-end deveoper to create robust API endpoints for the Grazzy web application

Implemented secure endpoint access using Auth0 and Express middleware for various user roles

Leveraged Temporal for automated recurring tasks, facilitating report processing, payroll services, and automated payouts via Stripe

Enabled automated fund transfers for Food and Beverage customers through Stripe ACH transfers for same-day pay functionality

Designed and managed database tables using Prisma ORM

2020 — 2022Digital TurbineSoftware Engineer II

2020 — 2022

2018 — 2020Life by SpotLead Back End Developer

2018 — 2020

Austin, Texas Area

Helped bring Spot from early startup to launching a direct to consumer website, building a first of its kind platform to change how insurance is delivered to customers

Built partnership integration's utilizing

Agile methodology and collaboration with Founders, UI and UX designers and the business to build a secure and compliant platform

Developed and maintained dockerized Nodejs microservices and npm modules

Designed and implemented secure REST APIs utilized by the direct to consumer site and partnership integrations

Used docker and docker compose to create development environment that closely resembled production stack running on AWS

Used docker and docker compose to create development environment that closely resembles production stack running on AWS

Designed and implemented user-facing insurance claims filing system, ensuring HIPAA compliance

Deployed Jenkins and Buddy to enable Continuous Integration to our staging servers and one click deployment to our production servers

Technologies used: Nodejs, Postgresql, Knexjs, Objectionjs, React-pdf, AWS, EC2, ECS, Docker, Docker Compose

2015 — 2017The BT GroupSoftware Developer

2015 — 2017

Logan, UT

Developing software for a top 20 Amazon.com Marketplace Seller such as internal applications, extending existing applications, and identifying and eliminating bugs for increased online company presence and performance.

Utilized SQL Servers bulk copy and merge functionality to process reports 4 times faster,

allowing reports to be processed outside business hours.

Converted Winforms web scraping application to Python application running in Docker

with Redis back end to improve scalability and reduce hosting costs.

Created website using Vue.js and ASP.NET Web API for third party vendors to submit

shipping information and generate shipping labels using Amazons Marketplace Web

Services API.

Utilized Google Cloud Vision API optical character recognition to make third party image

and pdf documents searchable.

Technologies used: C#, Winforms, Python, VueJS, Azure, Microsoft SQL

Education

2014 — 2016

Utah State University

Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc)

2014 — 2016