I believe empathy and compassion builds the foundation for leading a strong team through any process. Graduating with a CS degree in less than 3 years, I learn quickly, adapt efficiently, and know how to handle fast paced situations.
As a senior consultant at Fannie Mae, contributed to the development and enhancement of scalable, secure, and performant enterprise applications. Brought over a decade of full-time experience in building robust full-stack solutions for high-traffic, mission-critical systems.
Delivered enterprise-grade software solutions (SaaS/IaaS) across a range of products and internal platforms.
Translated high-level product and business goals into shippable software with minimal oversight.
Designed and implemented scalable, resilient systems that perform under heavy load and are maintainable in production environments.
Took ownership of code quality, end-to-end feature delivery, and architectural decisions.
Led discussions around system design, performance optimization, and technical risk mitigation.
Mentored junior developers and delegated technical tasks across the engineering team.
Communicated directly with cross-functional teams in a fully remote environment.
Provided hands-on support and technical guidance to client development teams.
Participated in internal coaching and upskilling efforts to improve team capabilities.
Maintained a strong focus on continuous learning, problem solving, and balanced remote work-life integration.
As the first employee, took a prototype built off of Fuse and implemented a working UI in less than 3 months that was delivered on time to the first client and used to sell to others.
Developed the hiring plan to find junior engineers to join the team and eventually senior engineers. Grew the team to a strong foundation of 8.
As acting engineering manager, ran all engineering meetings (all-hands, stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) and was the go-to between ops.
As acting engineering manager, prioritized and effectively calculated timelines to produce roadmaps while working with the rest of the team.
Continued to be as transparent as possible about business information and changes to processes, and empathetically listened to any concerns or issues brought to me. Actively worked on getting issues resolved whether it be personal or professional.
Made sure the culture engineering built remained no matter what situation we were in.
Recognized a need for a product redesign after gaining more domain knowledge, hired a designer for the role, architected the redesign and delivered it within 4 days of the estimated release date. Redesign has been proven to be the right decision as it was used to double business.
Continued learning of the Generative AI space to better understand how to design and implement UI to help users feel comfortable, empowered, and safe.
2021 — 2022
Manage the internship program including the vetting, hiring, and mentoring process. Find ways to build projects around strengths and weaknesses and reach out to other members of the organization when subject matter is out of my comfort zone. Hold weekly meetings to make sure the line of conversation stays open and daily check-ins to make sure the interns have what they need.
As a member of the Operations team, build out quarterly newsletters, work with employees to plan engagements for the organization as a whole, but also for smaller teams within the company. Do the research, plan out costs, and confirm with others in the Operations team to make the engagements exciting and informative.
As the tech voice of the Operations team, provide insight into the ongoings of client and internship programs/projects and speak on what is going well and what isn't.
Be available to jump into any program/project if a new perspective is needed, speed up progress, or put out fires.
2017 — 2021
Remote
Member of the core development team that designed and built NNData’s NNCompass software suite. Design and build user interface elements, data processing and ingest modules, statistical analytics packages and external system interconnection components. Serve as scrum master for the team and make recommendations for additional/improved tools to include in our continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) pipeline.
Perform training for both employees and customers on the use of NNCompass.
As a member of the customer success team, assist in the initial deployment of NNCompass in customer environments and perform/assist with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) workflow development, mapping of source data types to target systems (schema mapping) and develop custom modules for access to proprietary APIs.
2015 — 2017
Lead Ruby on Rails Backend Engineer for Wellsite Report (https://www.wellsitereport.com). Architected and implemented new data schemas to provide better analytics for well sites. Integrated client data into Wellsitereport’s Postgres SQL database and wrote scripts to retrieve new datasets every morning. Trained new employees on how to use Wellsitereport and the project structure.
Sole project manager, engineer, and maintainer for goShadow (https://www.goshadow.org) written in Ruby on Rails. Oversaw the project from conception to demo to delivery.
Education
2009 — 2012
University of Pittsburgh
Bachelor of Science (BS)
2009 — 2012
2008 — 2009
Northeastern University
Journalism
2008 — 2009
2003 — 2008
Osan American High School
2003 — 2008