10+ YOE full-stack software developer always looking for new challenges and opportunities to learn and teach. Not afraid of picking up new technologies or programming languages. Loves both high-level architecture and design and getting hands-on with the code. Avid documentation writer to help reduce knowledge siloes.

2024 — NowVerkadaStaff Software Engineer

2024 — Now

San Mateo, California, United States

2019 — 2024ShippoSenior Software Engineer

2019 — 2024

San Francisco Bay Area

Engineering owner for two new verticals, leading a team of four engineers to identify high-impact opportunities and deliver features from 0 to 1

Collaborate closely with product manager and UX designer to scope feature requests, create product milestones, and manage engineering resources to deliver features on time

While leading the Automations team, designed and implemented custom rule engine and rule creation UI to reduce time to label purchase for 20,000+ SMB users

Enhanced web app observability by upgrading integration with Sentry SDK, adding native Fullstory replays in Sentry, and enabling sourcemaps for faster troubleshooting

Implemented leaky bucket algorithm for queue-based processes to maintain service availability and handle expected 50% YoY increase in volume during Black Friday

Implemented one of the first Shippo microservices and created guidelines used by 100+ engineers to shorten initial release time to days instead of weeks

Lead developer experience working groups and champion improvements in engineering processes to reduce occurrence of P0 bugs

2018 — 2019Fuzzy Pet HealthSoftware Engineer

2018 — 2019

San Francisco Bay Area

Alongside VP of Engineering, built and deployed new web app, API server and medical record/admin application within two weeks of employment

Technical owner for marketing/growth-related initiatives

Implemented first BI tool (Looker) and created dashboards for visibility and tracking of crucial KPIs for C-suite

Created data models, RESTful APIs, webhooks, and UIs for internal teams for five third-party integrations (shipping, payments, analytics, CRM, geolocation)

Mentor four junior engineers through pair programming, code reviews and whiteboarding

2016 — 2018UC Davis Health SystemApplication Programmer 3

2016 — 2018

Sacramento

As a biobanking programmer, I created a unified biospecimen database and web-based search interface from scratch to enable greater collaboration between researchers at UC Davis. I am responsible for the design, full-stack development, and maintenance of the search interface as well as an onboarding website to help biobanks import their specimen collections. I also develop ETL pipelines for each biobank to simplify the data import process.

As a software engineer working in the Public Health Sciences department at UC Davis, I help develop data pipelines and applications to support grant-funded research projects related to precision medicine.

As a research informaticist, I work closely with a UC Davis PI and act as an honest broker for his research projects. I extract complex sets of data from EHR and perform statistical analyses on them.

Technologies: Node.js + Express, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Angular.js, ASP.NET MVC, Python + Django, Jenkins, Postman, Pentaho Data Integration

2014 — 2016EpicTechnical Services

2014 — 2016

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Point of contact for technical and implementation support for several healthcare organizations using Epic ASAP ED module in their hospitals. Provide at-the-elbow end-user support at hospitals going live with Epic software for the first time. Improve Epic software by developing bug fixes and internal tools to benchmark customer usage of ASAP ED software.

Education

Washington University in St. Louis

Experience+

Education

Bachelor's Degree