When I'm not committing code, attending scrum meetings, or implementing new designs and architecture, you'll find me going Scuba Diving or reading military history. Recent Master's graduate from Stevens Institute of Technology and currently working as a lead backend engineer at Ulta Beauty.
2023 — Now
New York City Metropolitan Area
Led all backend services within the UBMedia platform, providing strategic direction to the development team and ensuring seamless operations while driving the successful implementation of features, directly contributing to over $150M in revenue.
Owned the Auth0 authentication flow as the primary stakeholder, leading cross-functional discussions and overseeing database management, user experience, and organization management to ensure alignment with business goals.
Deployed key features such as Login, People Management, crafted reusable components, and established secure authentication strategies, utilizing React, TypeScript, TanStack Query, and Node.js to enhance the advertising ecosystem, app functionality and user experience.
Established and enforced best engineering and security practices within a new team, setting the vision for test-driven development, unit testing, coding standards, and deployment processes to drive alignment and improve efficiency; practices directly correlated in a 28% improvement in the rate at which tasks are completed, as reflected in the more consistent and accelerated trends in team burndown chart.
Led cross-functional efforts with Design, Product, Legal, DevOps, and Security teams, built consensus and guided over 30 ad partners for the successful delivery of new products that streamlined financial forecasting and planning workflows.
Forged 18% growth among strong partnerships across organizations, proactively resolving competing interests and alignment across teams to prevent workflow blockers, maintain project momentum, and uphold delivery timelines.
Mentored and guided 3 junior engineers and provided ongoing support, which resulted in accelerated career growth and increased team technical proficiency, driving greater team efficiency and output.
2021 — 2023
New York City Metropolitan Area
Full Stack Engineering, Design, Leadership: Assumed ownership over user search within the platform and became a subject matter expert for Elasticsearch architecture within the company. Led the UI re-design for a visual search experience with React and React Context. Spearheaded Elasticsearch query updates in Node.js and TypeScript to allow users to search all their content at once. Pioneered enhanced Elasticsearch backend implementation with Node.js, TypeScript, and MongoDB to tune user search results based on user metrics and personalized results. Resulted in a 15% increase in user searches and a 20% increase of users who clicked on one of the first 5 results.
Frontend Engineering, UI/UX, Teamwork and Cross-functional Communication: Coordinated with teams such as Design, Product, Legal, and DevOps to implement full re-design of the entire website, including the second and third most visited pages in Mural. Leveraged Node.js, TypeScript, React, and React Context to drive new features such as toast notifications for user actions, timed modal reminders of team and role input for more personalized content, re-useable card components for user content, and UI changes to deliver a more consistent, bug-free, and succinct experience across the dashboard. Contributions led to a 30% increase in visits to the content management dashboard.
Testing, Technical Troubleshooting and Debugging: Oversaw full deployment of Elasticsearch 7 migration, implementation of DataDog observability for search queries, and advocate for exhaustive code coverage across the dashboard with Cucumber, Jest, Mocha, and Chai.
2018 — 2021
New York, United States
Full stack Engineering, Design, Leadership: Led the re-design and implementation of a client’s internal employee benefits site that led to a tenfold increase in average user engagement and leveraging of company resources. Wireframed, architected, and implemented in Node.js with an Express.js backend; also wrote a React.js / Redux front-end featuring a fully functioning state management.
Full stack Engineering, API Implementation: Embedded in an agile team tasked with the creation of an email marketing and survey curation apparatus to tabulate feedback for a growing user base. Routed user requests with React router on the front end and used Express.js for the back end. Implemented reusable user inputs and navigation with Redux Form. Enhanced UI with Google OAuth integration and streamlined payment workflow with Stripe.
Implementation, Technical Troubleshooting and Debugging: Acted as lead MarkLogic developer on a team that interacted with over 1.5 million unique ID records. Contributions directly correlated to a 22% drop in support cases that related to troubleshooting of virtual ID record access.
Lexington, MA
Participated as a full member of code reviews, QA testing, and software meetings as part of an Agile structure
Implemented enhanced data visualization of clinic enrollment in C# MVC/Web API; wrote logic to organize data into month, day, and year, filtering of data by product version and specific facilities within a hospital network. Created stored procedures in MSSQL to query the database, display relevant data, and used AJAX requests to update the graph based on user input. Also implemented functionality to download specified data into an Excel document
Created a proof-of-concept implementation in the C# Web API of a mock initiate database system that utilized HL7 FHIR—a commonplace secure hospital messaging paradigm. Main functionality consisted of CRUD operations that asynchronously queried the database
Utilized Powershell scripting to install various in-house applications and automatically trigger a snapshot revert on VCloud virtual machines
Santa Ana, California
Embedded in a software team that was responsible for the rebranding of current products as well as the research and development of new surgical machines/software for Phacomulsification
Participated as a full member of code reviews, QA testing, and software meetings; interacted with marketing and legal departments to ensure product compliance.
Presented a detailed plan of a full-stack website that would calculate toric calculations and lens selection for surgeons; worked as a full-stack developer on the project until conclusion of summer internship; backend implemented with Node.js
Re-designed the UI, implemented new features, and debugged offline toric calculator for iOS and desktop with Qt (a cross-platform SDK that utilizes an extensible and modular C++ framework)
Education
Stevens Institute of Technology
Master of Engineering - MEng
University of Rochester
Bachelor's degree
2014 — 2018
University of Rochester
Minor
2014 — 2018
Wellesley College
Wellesley High School