Developing for feature and infrastructure teams with a focus on the application backend, working in close collaboration with product, frontend engineers, and QA

Implemented reliable and scalable APIs in Javascript for a consumer photogrammetry application

Designed and developed many of the social features for the application, which is predominantly run on Node.js Lambdas connected to an RDS MySQL database, e.g. search with auto-complete, mentions, hashtags, user profiles, comments, and event-flows

Led efforts on several iterations to improve our authentication system, moving away from an AWS Cognito passwordless flow to add social sign-on via an OAuth 2.0 flow

Transitioned APIs from REST to Apollo Graphql to increase performance and enable faster feature development

Designed basic privacy settings to allow users to control access to their data

Added push and in-app notifications to application with an event-based system utilizing AWS Pinpoint and SNS

Key engineer in supporting the customer success team, working alongside to unblock, identify, and fix bugs

Create tooling to increase efficiency of internal engineers and automate tasks for customer success team

Added and refined custom metrics for better monitoring for on-call duties

• Develop user-facing Financial Aid software for Workday Student using an object-oriented, proprietary language

• Lead technical group devoted to crafting solutions, setting language standards, and spreading knowledge on reporting for the Workday Student organization

• Enable team of engineers, product managers, and QA to work together efficiently by serving as scrum master

• Improved and maintained functionality of websites for the Dyson Business Minor

• Collaborated with team to manage the Dyson Symposium for Women in Leadership

• Assisted guest speakers with travel arrangements

• Responded to student questions and concerns regarding the Dyson Business Minor

• Built internal web tools using the Ruby on Rails web framework to increase efficiency of development, QA, and release operations

• Designed an application that fetches weekly product updates, allowing document writers to download a configurable XML file used to inform customers of new features in the latest release

• Lead meetings with product managers, discussing desired functionality and current issues

• Converted a bash script into a RESTful API to retrieve and display build-pipeline data

• Processed XML formatted test data using a SAX parser

• Exercised proficiency in Agile and test driven development

• Contributed to and received code reviews, iterating to follow best practices