Throughout my career at Newforma I gained experience on various platforms. Initially, I maintained a legacy, PHP product. Wrote a java microservice which eliminated a bottleneck and provided an asynchronous, efficient solution to handle files via AWS’ SQS and S3 services. I then moved to contribute on an web application which gave me exposure to Angular, Typescript, CSS, and HTML5.

The company shifted strategies toward a mobile and web first architecture. With this came the use of AWS’ API Gateway coupled with Lambdas, written in Node.js, to create a scalable and server less back-end architecture. I found myself greatly enjoying Swift development, gaining significant knowledge using frameworks like RxSwift. During this time I also took on the scrum master role where I led my team to stick with scrum methodologies, pushing ourselves to be more efficient and productive.

Accomplishments

At Tyler Technologies I began working directly with my team in a “jump in heads first” approach developing tax software for the municipal industry. I learned how to write Genero applications and work with SQL databases. Starting with basic bug fixes, I quickly advanced to adding new features and playing a vital role in doing a massive rewrite using our in house, re-designed customer APIs. I also lead the start of rewriting some of our complex SQL queries to be compact, lightweight, and significantly faster.

Accomplishments

I worked on upgrading a feature for UNH's "Picture Post" website. While working on this project I upgraded the "greenness" algorithm, which was used as an image processing tool, and provided some data analysis tools to examine a wide range of pictures at once. This tool is used to determine how healthy the environment is at a given time and can compare previous days, weeks, or seasons to see general trends.