Software Engineer with a passion for life-long learning, stream-lining processes, documentation, and improving developer experiences. Experienced with all stages of the full-stack development life-cycle, from gathering requirements to releasing to market. I have a talent for learning quickly.

2023 — NowStripeSenior Software Engineer

2023 — Now

2021 — NowStripeSoftware Engineer

2021 — Now

2020 — 2021OpenSesameSoftware Engineer II

2020 — 2021

Portland, Oregon Area

Lead engineer for an Identity Initiative for the past two years. Go-to person for all matters involving authentication and authorization including username/password, SSO, SAML, and service to service flows. Architected and implemented services and patterns for auth used by other teams in the organization.

Advocated for, designed, and implemented our CI/CD pipeline for application, infrastructure, and library repositories utilizing GitHub Actions. Introduced a workflow with a focus on streamlining the time to release and improving developer experience.

Built numerous APIs utilizing API Gateway and AWS Lambda secured with JWT Authorizers with a focus on documentation and re-usability of patterns to accelerate future API development. The patterns implemented allowed for spinning up a new API in minutes.

Designed and handled the extraction of a package ingestion service from a PHP and .NET monolith to a microservice utilizing AWS State Machines, Lambda, and event-based SQS messaging.

2019 — 2020OpenSesameAssociate Software Engineer

2019 — 2020

Portland, Oregon Area

Was the Epic Champion for 15+ features where I had to collaborate cross-functionally with teams to gather requirements, design, story, and

implement said features.

Identified areas of acceleration for the team, such as improving time to commit by 50% through implementing pre-commit script that only

lints staged files.

Became a sought-after design contributor and source of knowledge for the team.

2018 — 2018CDK GlobalSoftware Development Intern

2018 — 2018

Portland, Oregon Area

Responsible for rewriting and laying down the framework to update an internal application used by about 100 employees.

Created the UI using React.js and Redux, and the RESTful API using ASP.NET Core 2.1, C#, and PostgreSQL.

Implemented an UI component for an audio transcription service using React.

Education

2014 — 2019

Oregon State University

Bachelor of Science - BS

2014 — 2019

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Science - BS