Mid-career IC returning after career leave. Seeking roles in automation, tool building & graphics. Bay Area/Remote I create reliable software by leveraging a background in rapid prototyping, graphics programming and agile development.

Experience

2020 — 2022San Mateo Credit UnionSoftware Engineer

2020 — 2022

Redwood City, California, United States

Operated as the engineering portion of a Digital Banking team to build out a rich web & mobile experience. Utilized vendor SKDs to design/implement digital banking widgets as extensions of basic online banking.

Collaborated with multiple teams to assist in core banking technology migration. Functioned as custodian of code and revision history ensuring smooth workflow

Developed and deployed themed UI components powered by backend microservices using C#, Blazor, and VUE.js. Corresponded with SDK support to strengthen their developer platform

Played QA role within several environments. Drafted testing playbooks used by live internal testers within production. Screened at least 3 major bugs from affecting 10,000+ users

2017 — 2020Freelance, self-employedGame Creator

2017 — 2020

Passion project inspired by classic GBA games, this 3D turn based strategy was built in the Unity game engine. This project was architected to account for a dynamic level development strategy and an accompanying serialization system that empowered the user's data choices.

Utilized Blender’s bpy and bmesh Python libraries to create character builder tool

Real time level deployment utilized Excel 365 addons to serialize, version, then deploy in real-time. This decoupled the game code from level content creation

Custom save system utilized SQL and REST api on cloud (Azure/Debian). This resulted in a lossless data system that allowed convenience while ensuring data safety

Made CI/CD build pipeline with an aspect-oriented approach to reduce overall codebase by 20%

2016 — 2017Dyndrite CorporationSoftware Engineer / Cofounder

2016 — 2017

San Francisco Bay Area

Collaborated with mathematicians and mechanical engineers to innovate CAD/CAM system. Spearheaded designs for geometry kernel in C++, utilized NVidia graphics hardware to improve render times & reduce costs.

Increased render resolution by 20x, decreased render time by a factor of 100x

Established devops workflow using Office 365, MS Azure, Atlassian Cloud, and AWS

Maintained design documents, support documents including install/setup tutorials

2015 — 2016VisaSoftware Engineer

2015 — 2016

Foster City, Ca

Modernized and maintained global map of real-time transactions use by c-suite to demonstrate capabilities of VisaNet.

Worked on real-time data visualizations streaming from 50+ countries totaling over 1 billion data points per hour

Prototyped 3D visualization operating on the above dataset, with an emphasis on immersive interaction

Regulated and updated database queries to comply with confidentiality protocols; used SQL, Hadoop, DB2, Spring

Cooperated with Legal and InfoSec to preserve custody of aggregate finical data within application(s)

Collaborated with teams in multiple locations (Bangalore, San Francisco, Foster City, Austin)

2014 — 2014VisaIntern

2014 — 2014

One Market Center, San Francisco

Visa Labs team internship. Implemented proof-of-concept augmented reality applications on mobile devices using the Metaio SDK alongside Unity in order to demonstrate revolutionary data visualizations & interactions.

Created virtual reality applications displaying over 10 million polygons at 30 fps onto retina tablet devices

Presented projects to executives of over 30 global financial institutions

Rapidly prototyped approximately 20 projects over a 14-week period

Worked in very agile development team of 12. Project requirements and goals rapidly pivoted on a weekly or daily basis dependent on immediate demand from event coordinators

Education

California State University, Chico

Experience

Education

Computer Animation and Game Development