# Ray Sosseh

> artist/coder

Location: Montgomery Village, Maryland, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/raysosseh

I am a driven and hard working team player who has experience with languages all across the stack.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Amplifire eLearning
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Trade Coffee
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
- Worked in a small team to redesign the homepage and added features that enabled users to discover new coffees and coffee collections in Javascript and Typescript
- Used Ruby and Solidus to create a coffee taste collection management system
- Helped build out React/Typescript/Storybook/Contentful component library
- Advocated for creating a structure and team workflow that would enable for a more seamless and engaging working environment

### Full Stack Engineer @ Bags
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Coordinated and helped lead a small, and fully remote dev team
- Created API’s and managed Lambda functions to furnish data from MongoDB databases to frontend
- Updated and added animations for V2 landing page

### Software Engineer @ Group Nine Media
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area
- Worked with all-star designers and an inherited codebase to ideate and launch campaigns for the Thrillist, NowThis, and The Dodo brands
- Added new components and infrastructure improvements to the NextJS, React, AWS Lambda tech stack
- Gave insight and direction to help guide the team towards the solutions along the path of least resistance

### Web Developer @ Direct Agents
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
- Sole developer at the agency. Developed websites and newsletters for a variety of clients including Sony Crackle,
Funimation, and multiple small businesses
- Worked with designers, PM’s, and AM’s to create products that clients love
- Provided support and guidance to clients on ways to maintain sites and templates made

### Special Collections Assistant @ Brown University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Providence, Rhode Island Area
-Designed and built websites for each new library exhibit based on the aesthetics of the artifacts in the exhibit
-Helped digitize and retrieve artifacts for exhibits

### Digital Intern @ Capitol Records
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Imagined and prototyped a web app for marketers using HTML, CSS, Node.js, MySQL, JSON, and Javascript that provides fanbase analysis data from Spotify, Pandora and Facebook in a more digestible manner
- Re-designed and helped implement a new email template layout for the label which reduced the time needed to craft emails by 3 hours.

### Website Intern @ Agora Partnerships
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Worked in Wordpress to incorporate custom, Javascript based plugins to their website
- Designed and implemented a new responsive UI design for the blog of this non-profit
- Provided advice on how to best create a fluid experience for future users

### User Experience Intern @ Retail Solutions Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Updated structure of Salesforce macros
- Set up users and helped them with their inquiries
- Used Java and Python to expedite data quality tasks

### Lab Assistant @ Brown University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Providence, Rhode Island Area
- Worked on legacy code to sustain the central database of the lab
- Set up Subversion repositories to help keep the lab’s code base organized and in sync
- Learned R, Visual Basic 6, and expanded my Python knowledge

### Project Coordinator @ AmeriCorps VISTA
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
- Designed and maintained the online presence of a non-profit organization, which included website design and database maintenance
- Made presentations on behalf of the organization to garner funds 
- Worked with a team to identify and apply for various grants
- Organized fundraisers and events


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Computer Science and Computer Music
Brown University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/raysosseh
- Website: https://rsosseh.github.io/

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Source: https://flows.cv/raysosseh
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/raysosseh/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-05