• Mentored students in full-stack software engineering, providing guidance on interpreting technical documentation and debugging errors.

• Facilitated workshops for students to improve concept understanding and code quality.

Tasked to create a mobile app that would offer a curated list of campgrounds for users to stay and take part in contributing to if they wanted to host.

Highlights:

• Implemented Agile/Scrum methodology to manage development cycles and ensure timely delivery of the mobile app.

• Utilized React Native, HTML, and CSS to create a user-friendly front-end with features and UI components.

• Integrated third-party libraries and APIs, such as Google Maps API and Firebase, to extend app functionality.

Built a photo-sharing application with a modernized interface, allowing users to upload and categorize photos, as well as pin their best photos to the top of their profiles for others to see and interact with.

Highlights:

• Leveraged Amazon S3 to store and deliver photos quickly, reliably, and securely to users.

• Implemented an authentication and authorization system using Firebase for user accounts.

• Optimized the app by implementing caching strategies, code splitting, and server-side rendering to ensure fast loading times and reduce the amount of traffic on the server.

Tasked to rebuild an ecommerce site's outdated API, this project focused on implementing a RESTful microservice architecture that could be easily scaled to meet changing needs.

Highlights:

• Leveraged three EC2 instances, an NGINX load balancer, and data caching to increase throughput from 800 to over 3,500 requests/second with a <0.1% error rate.

• Deployed a PostgreSQL server on AWS and implemented an ETL process for a dataset of over 30 million records.

• Conducted rigorous stress testing with k6 and Loader.io, visualized performance metrics with New Relic and Grafana, and optimized SQL query execution times for maximum efficiency.