Currently working on the Multimedia(WAVE) team at Bloomberg.com, building React-based web applications and maintaining multiple backend services that power live and on-demand video experiences across platforms. Previously contributed to the Bloomberg News App built with React Native.

Started as a Senior Developer building a hybrid application that connected home-automation (IoT) devices, social features, and multiple API integrations using a modern web technology stack. Transitioned into a Lead Engineer role, guiding the team through a major product re-envisioning focused on improving usability for an elderly audience and expanding third-party integrations.

Led redesign efforts to modernize the product using new technologies, improving accessibility and overall experience for senior users.

Developed Alexa skills integrating home automation and community content, and later led the effort to transition the skill for public use and hospitality platforms.

Built and maintained core features, delivered new external integrations, and drove solutions for technically complex problems across the platform.

Managed team goals, milestones, and development processes, while introducing tooling and automation to streamline builds and improve code quality.

Championed engineering best practices, created prototypes to validate new ideas, and reduced team friction by improving workflows and bringing in future-friendly technologies.

Provided technical mentorship, guidance, and support to developers to maintain high-quality, scalable engineering standards.

Worked in an Agile development process with several clients and teams of varying size initially as a IBM Portal developer, later moving to be a responsive web developer.

Client : Kaiser Permanente - Responsive Web Developer

Working with a stack of font-end frameworks to develop responsive web applications. Developed Angularjs utilities to be used along with everyday development to enhance the logging functionality that can be useful to the developer and client as well. Work included analysis, design and development of webpages using Angularjs to call on web services and javascript testing using jasmine/karma. Used bower for dependency management and gulp as a task runner to keep all things in check continuously. Learning and development went in sync with so many new and emerging web frameworks to optimize workflow.

HTML, CSS, javascript, Angular.js, Node, bower, gulp, Jquery, Ajax, bootstrap

Client : Blue Shield of California - Portal developer (Associate.)

Worked along with a passionate team doing analysis, design and development of several modules, in the migration of the member portal for BlueShield of California from java servlets to IBM Websphere Portal.

Performed analysis and development of a user Authenticated forms module to be developed, that displays pdf forms from IBM Web Content Manager. Based on the user’s access privileges the forms displayed are to be controlled using a custom portlet.

Java, IBM WCM, IBM Websphere Portal 8.5