Led the epic to convert the Tough Talks AI chatbot into a mobile-responsive platform integrated with new labs infrastructure, implementing Dependency Injection lab adapter parameters, building new lab interaction operations, and creating seed data to support environment initialization
Contributed to the team-wide effort to transition our Learning platform from our legacy JS frontend infrastructure to a new Phlex rails architecture over the course of several months. This included re-writing the backend and frontend code for several pages and components across the platform using Phlex and StimulusJS
Assisted in setting up analytics tracking throughout our platform using Segment and Amplitude
Replaced Helpshift, our customer service platform, in our code base and implemented Intercom SDK
Extensive research and documentation on our antivirus scanner in AWS
Served as a peer mentor and onboarding buddy for new engineers, accelerating team ramp-up through pair programming, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing on team systems and development workflows
2021 — 2024
Projects:
Community Access Platform (CAP) project
Epic lead for developing the first iteration of CAP, a public interface where patients. This included becoming the subject matter expert for this project, developing the feature from start to finish, and constructing technical documentation through the discovery phase.
Lead the effort to convert legacy rails-rendered screening pages to modern React pages and testing paradigms
Provided support to onboard and create CAP instances for new clients
Preformed several knowledge transfer sessions to new team members and internal stakeholders
Closed Loop Referrals feature
Implemented the functionality in our API to automatically notify providers about patient referrals and made comprehensive documentation and testing plans around this feature
Additional accomplishments:
Works simultaneously across two tech stacks: a Ruby on Rails, SQL, RESTful app and a Python, NoSQL, non-RESTful app.
Participated in the company-wide Hackathon and created a Pitch Day presentation to potentially receive funding
Gained knowledge in GraphQL & Amazon States Language by developing workflow engines for various clients
Tackled a variety of bugs and feature improvements around ElasticSearch and indexing
Currently working on improvements to our search results algorithm by handling geocoding failures
Assisting with Epic completion surrounding patient privacy, which includes implementing complex logic to prevent PHI from being exposed and creating new React (with Redux) components to indicate privacy and consent settings
Handles a variety of issues that come up across our technical stack during on-call hours
Assists newer engineers by holding frequent pairing sessions for knowledge-sharing and problem-solving
Proficient in AWS Amplify, DynamoDB, and AppSync
New York City Metropolitan Area
Iterated on existing full-stack features in Ruby and Angular such as action mailer for sending patient search results, LaTeX PDF generation, and incorrect provider information reporting
Refactored our codebase to introduce state management, new testing suites, and updated legacy code from existing repositories
Participated in ticket refinement and estimation, peer code reviews, and retrospectives in a test-driven, agile environment
New York City Metropolitan Area
Tech stack: Webpack, TypeScript, Material UI, Node.js, MongoDB, Jest, Github pipeline, GCP
Design and implement a health provider onboarding flow
Build email verification (for signup) and authentication (for login) system using JSON web tokens (JWTs)
Research and design provider and facility data model with scale in mind and consider the many to many relationships between them and how the data model will be able to support provider search based on location
Create a reusable form using Material UI to capture the provider’s basic information to MongoDB and images uploaded to Google Cloud
New York City Metropolitan Area
Full-time fellow in the Software Engineering Immersive program that included 500+ hrs of instruction over 12 weeks. With a hands-on, career-oriented approach, I was given the skills to transition into the tech industry.
Languages:
HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ruby, Python
Tools & skills:
Version Control (Git and Github), Heroku, Netlify, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Algorithms, Data Structures, REST API
Frameworks:
Node.js, Express.js, Vue.js, React, jQuery, Bootstrap4, Ruby on Rails, Django
Databases:
MongoDB, Mongoose, Mongo Atlas, PostgreSQL
Independent Projects:
Personal Website: personal website to display portfolio (version 1)
URL: narissa-hajratalli.netlify.app/
Tech stack: jQuery, HTML5, CSS
Repository: github.com/narissa-hajratalli/project-1-portfolio
The Color of Care: full-stack application for patients to report racial bias and discrimination they've experienced from healthcare professionals
URL: thecolorofcare.netlify.app/
Tech stack: jQuery, Express.js, MongoDB
Frontend repo: github.com/narissa-hajratalli/frontend-project-2
Backend repo: github.com/narissa-hajratalli/backend-project-2
Leaft: a full-stack application for users to track how much meat they consume in a week, for people who want to transition to a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle
URL: leaft.netlify.app/
Tech stack: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Vue.js
Frontend repo: github.com/narissa-hajratalli/frontend-project-4
Backend repo: github.com/narissa-hajratalli/backend-project-4
Documentation: medium.com/@narissa_hajratalli
Team Projects:
Vooyáge: full-stack application designed to organize activities from all your favorite travel destinations (was responsible for frontend Vue.js)
URL: vooyage.netlify.app/
Tech stack: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Vue.js
Frontend repo: github.com/e-mbrown/project3-frontend
Backend repo: github.com/e-mbrown/project3-backend
Documentation: medium.com/@narissa_hajratalli
Education
New York University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2020 — 2020
LaGuardia Community College
Certificate (LaGuardia Community College / General Assembly - Software Engineering Immersive)
2020 — 2020