Full stack senior software engineer, working on tools and apps to improve education across the U.S

Technologies used:

React, Typescript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Node.js

Projects worked on:

Worked on curriculum adoption team in CZI's flagship summit learning application. Worked mainly on the frontend (React and Typescript), but was still heavily involved with backend controllers and scripts (in Ruby on Rails)

Worked on experimental data service team for CZI Education, implementing a database abstraction through Docker and Docker compose with a Node.js backend.

Worked on a teacher-student connection app (Along), helping teachers and students connect through video, audio, and in-app messages. Became a key member, helping to implement features and fixes across the stack (Typescript, React, GraphQL, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, AWS, Terraform)

Senior Software engineer, continuing to work on core signature request flows, while providing support to adjacent teams.

Full-stack developer for HelloSign, an e-signature subsidiary of Dropbox. Focused on extending and rewriting key parts of the application as an integral member of a team of 12 engineers in the core e-signature team.

Worked with React, Typescript, Redux on the frontend, and PHP and symfony on the backend.

Backend developer for a popular media app for children. Helped extend and scale features for a company reaching 12k requests per second.

Features:

AB Test Framework - Expanded current AB Test system for needs of growing product team. Built and designed interface for bucketing different percentages of users, forcing users into certain buckets and creating AB Tests automatically, among other features.

Data Consistency Project - Helped company consolidate on a single definition for what a book-read meant in the system. Handled data migration successfully and helped decrease user complaints for why reading information wasn't consistent.

Tax Integration - Helped Epic! become tax compliant by handling integration with Avalara's AvaTax API. Successfully helped design an interface to pass the sales tax onto the customer

Stripe Retention Project - Was main engineer on highly visible retention project to help reduce involuntary churn. Successfully refactored integration with Stripe to handle previously unfound bugs and seemingly insurmountable complexity within the codebase.

Leadership: Was eventually main in-person contact for the core backend team in the office, as well as the primary liaison for mobile teams for a period of time. Led code clean-up efforts by writing custom bash scripts to identify unused functions in the code base and also wrote up a variety of security issues as they were found. Assisted with interviewing both backend and client engineers. Worked with cross-functional teams across engineering, marketing, content and data teams to ensure projects were scoped and built on time with strong results.

Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, Git, UNIX/Linux, Regex, Memcached, PHP-Storm/Vim

Back-end Software Engineer I for Professional Services team

Led and developed a complete rewrite of our metadata-ingestion for all new customers; increased processing speed over 100 times the old process

Led and developed new infrastructure for downloading assets through Webdam's core product's API

Led and developed Box-Webdam server-to-server integration project

Led and developed integration between Webdam and Percolate's Asset Manager

Coordinated and developed view-tracking project in Webdam's core product

Custom CSS + Javascript + HTML for a variety of customers

Tools used: PHP, Laravel, MySQL, git, OOP, AWS, Javascript, Unix