# Michele Moody

> Software Engineer at VacationRenter

Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michelemoody

Javascript developer with experience across the stack, specialized in creating React/Redux/Node applications. Passionate about optimizing performance with new technology and contributing to open-source developer tools.

Publications:
- Medium: GraphQL vs. REST API Architecture

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ VacationRenter
Jan 2020 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Codesmith
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
•  Engineered a React/Redux, Node.js/Express SPA, containerized with Docker and deployed via AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
•  Integrated React Router, Redux Form and query-params to conditionally render components dependent on user path.
•  Implemented Redux-Thunk middleware to handle asynchronous requests storing user information in PostgreSQL database.
•  Provided technical training to team designing GraphQL developer tool via dedicated one-on-one code review sessions.

### Software Engineer @ ProtoGraphQL
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Architected Node.js/Electron prototyping tool to provide a seamless transition from REST APIs to GraphQL, allowing developers to reduce over/under fetching and implement a stable, consistent, declarative integration between endpoints.

### Ideation Creation @ Open Source
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Software engineer project planning & research tool
• Created dynamic, flexible user interface with React Context API, hooks (useEffect, useContext, useState, useReducer) to implement state management and perform API calls in functional components without prop drilling. 

• Utilized iframes to present relevant live trend data for technologies based on dynamic data inputs.

• Implemented React Router to control user flow while maintaining the low-latency performance of a single page application.

### Rainbow City @ Open Source
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Tool for finding LGBTQ-friendly events and businesses
 • Queried a combination of REST APIs using Express for middleware & routing, accounting for limitations in 3rd party endpoints providing limited data sets and redundant information, pulling information for events depending on user-input location.

 • Used React to render results of queries with dynamic and maintainable code through the use of reusable components.

 • Employed SASS as a CSS preprocessor to optimize styling in the user interface to improve code readability and maintainability with nested syntax, variables and mixins for commonly reused style elements.

### CorpBook @ Open Source
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Proprietary personnel management system
• Implemented OAuth to streamline login process, improving user experience by adding an extra security, providing the convenience of third party authentication, and reducing redundancy of information requested from user

• Utilized CSS libraries to create clean, highly configurable, maintainable and cohesive styling with full responsiveness.

• Improved efficiency of profile creation and updates by utilizing NoSQL with mongoose to store persistent user profile information with customizable fields, scalability, and faster access to data with constant lookup in document-oriented storage.

### Account Manager @ Vertical Rail
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Global Economics
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### Political Sciences
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/milmoody

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Last updated: 2026-03-22