# Patrick Watrous > Software Engineer at Chewy Location: Greater Boston, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/patrickwatrous ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ Chewy Jan 2022 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States ### Software Engineer @ Loomis, Sayles & Company Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Worked with tech partners in the fixed income department to convert multiple teams’ needs into customizable, composable applications that interact with each other • Handled all aspects of client-side application development, including choosing appropriate tooling, designing the UI, addressing bug reports/feature requests, and managing deployment processes • Developed feature-rich persistent grids with AG Grid for analysis and live trade generation purposes • Helped maintain department-wide component library and microservices, leveraging tools such as Git submodules, Typescript, Styled Components, React Query, and React’s context and hook APIs ### Software Engineer @ Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Operated within a fast-paced Scrum environment, frequently pushing releases out to approximately 900 research institutions • Collaborated with BA and internal customer support team to troubleshoot live production issues, translating the issues into technical requirements and then implementing those requirements • Performed diverse full stack development tasks to meet business needs, from creating and modifying database schema to building REST API endpoints, application UIs, and an email notification system ### Junior Software Developer @ Attently, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area • Implemented CloudWatch logging to track and categorize various user errors • Added compatibility for The New York Times website to Winston, a Chrome extension that tracks various metrics on a user as they watch videos • Refactored Winston by modularizing the platform-specific logic, significantly decreasing the time required to add additional platforms to the extension • Researched, implemented, and tested various gaze tracking solutions based off of leading academic work on the subject ### Software Engineering Co-op @ Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area • Worked closely with BA, QA, Senior SWE, and Tech Lead on two agile teams, providing technical analysis through story grooming, feature development, and bug fix processes • Increased RSpec test coverage on the national-scale SMART-IRB application by roughly 7% • Implemented a new IRB request amendment workflow in Ruby on Rails • Implemented HarvardKey single sign-on to securely authenticate university-wide user sessions in the LearnResearch application • Created several new React pages and components for LearnResearch ### Full Stack Developer @ UniBit Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area • Built interactive financial charts using Vue and Plotly.js, allowing users to compare various securities and market trends • Built the UI for a conversational Q&A chat bot which could answer financial questions and point the user towards additional resources in the database • Configured and populated Elasticsearch index, significantly speeding up application query times • Implemented Google Analytics on documentation website, enabling the company to gather accurate metrics on the usage of each API endpoint ### Full Stack Developer Co-op @ Zylotech Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, MA Zylotech is an MIT spin-off offering an award-winning A.I.-powered customer analytics platform for omni-channel marketing operations. The platform uses machine learning to solve data quality issues and analyze all customer data continuously and in near real time for superior insights in support of omni-channel marketing operations. • Wrote chart dashboard library using React, Redux, and Plotly.js in order to speed up internal application development. • Created several custom component for the Customer Intelligence Platform application using React and Material UI, and populated them with data from a Node backend. • Built Customer Data Management Application with React, Express, Mongo, Node, and aws-sdk to be used by the Data Management Team. App features include secure authentication module, robust file organization hierarchy, ability to interact with files/folders in an S3 bucket (upload, download, delete, search, filter), and ability to quickly transfer files by streaming them from other sources (Dropbox, FTP Server). ### Software Development Intern @ The Learning Center for the Deaf Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area • Utilized test driven development in order to convert large portions of a Flask API into Ruby on Rails. • Worked on rewrite converting the web client, an Angular application for interacting with STEM related ASL signs, into React. ### Software Development Intern @ Axle Video, LLC Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area • Participated in daily scrum meetings • Built a tool that allowed scrubbing through videos using canvas and Ember.js • Created and implemented the UI and backend for a custom metadata tag. • Reskinned an Adobe Premiere Pro plugin in Angular.js, creating styling for both grid and list views. • Developed the functionality of a tool that used a client’s API to stream and record video. • Implemented various other front end design improvements. ### Note-Taker @ Northeastern University Disability Resource Center Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Boston, Massachusetts Wrote and delivered notes for • CS 1800, Discrete Structures • CS 2501, Lab for CS 2500 • CS 2510, Fundamentals of Computer Science II • CS 2511, Lab for CS 2510 to Northeastern University's Disability Resource Center. These notes were given to students in those classes who required them as part of their academic accommodations. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Accounting Northeastern University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/patrickwatrous - Portfolio: https://www.patrickwatro.us --- Source: https://flows.cv/patrickwatrous JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/patrickwatrous/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-28