Senior Full-stack Engineer with 13+ years of experience on the Web, specializing in modern backend development with Ruby on Rails and Node.js, as well as client-side technologies such as React.js, GraphQL, and TypeScript.
2024 — Now
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
● Led technical implementation of Dependabot malware detection across 20M+ repositories, expanding security coverage beyond CVE-based alerts and targeting GA launch (Mar 2026)
● Primary technical contact for Microsoft ADO Innersource integration, influencing core Advisory DB data model decisions and onboarding Microsoft engineers — enabling proprietary advisories across 30K+ repositories.
● Served as DRI for 4 new REST API endpoints enabling enterprise repository access management for Dependabot, including pagination support, preventing timeouts for large organizations, reducing support tickets by 30%, and improving enterprise adoption by 25%
● Co-led end-to-end implementation of Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) across advisory database and Dependabot alerts rules engine, enabling 250,000+ CVEs to be prioritized by exploitation probability via REST API, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, and UI — leading to successful GA launch
San Francisco Bay Area
● Enhancing a free-to-low-income-Americans tax filing tool using Ruby on Rails to help find optimal tax deductions, subsidized by the US government, and assisted 203,000+ tax filers in fiscal years 2021-2022
● Led the development of an online tool aiding 20K+ low-income senior American citizens, securing $3M+ in tax refunds.
● Orchestrated initiatives to enhance process efficiency and architectural robustness, driving sustainable improvements across the platform.
● Pair program/collaboration to onboard new engineers and spread knowledge among team members
● Testing of application logic using RSpec
Connecticut, United States
Practice Management integration engineering
● Built a monthly reporting tool to give executive leadership insights into volume integration that consumed endpoint info from AWS S3 and alerted Slack channels.
● Gave company-wide demos for testing integration communication
● Fixed mission-critical bugs in Practice Management system integrations that helped the company to unblock revenue.
● Performed detailed analysis for integrations that allowed to determine whether new integration code had desired effects in a demo environment and did not introduce regressions prior to deploying to production.
● Delivered a mechanism for generating a patient list that was to be sent to collections in an automated fashion.
Purchase, New York, United States
Onshore team leader, responsible for team releases:
● Successfully delivered 20+ full-stack features on our main product powered by Ruby on Rails and GraphQL in the backend, and React.js in the front end.
● Led architecture improvements that improved loan application requests by splitting the asynchronous jobs into batches by 30% and prevented failures and removed reprocessing.
● Designed and developed a service to deliver data-driven signals from external API using KeyCloak OAuth, Rails, React.js, GraphQL, and client-side state management (Redux, Hooks).
● Responsible for managing releases and deploys for our VPCC (Clinical Team), acting as a representative for onshore and offshore portions of the team. Monitored deploys using SumoLogic.
● Delivered major EHR migration on time and on budget, including the refactoring of API calls, and React UI components, which improved the flow for thousands of nurses company-wide.
● Modified flow using backend Rails engines and client-side component updates.
● Delivered over 3 proofs of concepts and presented the different findings in engineering-wide sessions.
● Ensuring we deliver on our agreed SLA by providing production-level support in the on-call rotation.
● Acting as a technical consultant for our product team and non-technical stakeholders, offering insights into the
capabilities of our tech stack, as well as refining requirements and estimations.
● Troubleshooting production incidents using Cloud logging tools like SumoLogic and DB production replicas.
● Contributed as part of a cross-functional Agile team of 6+ developers, and dedicated QA’s.
● Mentored and ensured best practices through code reviews and pair programming with junior engineers.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, RSpec, Redux, React.js, React Hooks, Jenkins, MySQL, Git, SumoLogic, Restful APIs, Architecture, Tech Talks, Engineering Presentations.
2019 — 2021
Arlington
Built several productivity-boosting processes by removing manual labor using software solutions and revolutionized tier 3 support processes by removing engineers almost entirely from the process.
● Technical lead on SRE effort that revolutionized on-call rotation by removing all possible engineer touchpoints. Standardized support documentation, made automated script fixes into CRM application, and hired a Tier 3 manager to use tools built by engineers. Engineers could now focus on root-cause issues to unblock revenue-producing leads. Scaled lead volume from 100 to over 3k leads per month while only one engineer was kept on the PagerDuty rotation.
● Built React.js component library for the company website
● Improved the CRM application performance by improving slow queries. Used EXPLAIN results to determine whether queries could benefit from adding DB index and improved ORM-produced queries. Reduced Heroku Dyno timeouts (H12) by 22%
● Google Calendar client integration into internal CRM which added the ability to get reminders, and CRUD events, improving sales floor productivity and eliminating context switching.
● Worked closely with designers to build new website features and career pages.
● Integrated internal CRM with Mailchimp to manage user tags for marketing campaign automation.
● Integrated with EasyPost gem for shipping labels with USPS and FedEx.
● Ensured best practices in Backend through code reviews.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Sorbet, React.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Hasura, PostgreSQL, SQL Analyzer, Docker, NewRelic, Rollbar, MailChimp, SRE, DB Optimization, Application Design, Technical lead, Heroku, PagerDuty, CircleCI.
Education
2010 — 2012
University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of Engineering
Bachelor of Science - BS
2010 — 2012
2007 — 2009
Montgomery College
Associate of Arts (A.A.)
2007 — 2009
2007 — 2009
Montgomery College
Associate of Arts (A.A.)
2007 — 2009