I'm constantly taking my knowledge in software engineering to the next level. Every new role I've taken has added a new technology or language to my skill set. This is supported by a consistent desire to step out of my comfort zone and learn every day.
2022 — 2023
New York, New York, United States
Transitioned into a leadership role, ensuring a smooth knowledge transfer maintaining prior team momentum
Empowered new team to achieve new heights, delivering high-visibility and critical projects
Collaborated with stakeholders to clearly define project requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives
Bridged communication gaps between frontend and backend of team improving collaboration and on-time delivery
Facilitated key Agile Scrum ceremonies (daily standup, sprint planning, and retrospectives) to maintain project visibility and progress
Fostered inter-team collaboration by enabling team members to lend expertise to other projects
Maintained code quality across the organization by performing sanity checks on team member bug tickets and reviewing backend code for other teams
Conducted regular one-on-one meetings with team members to provide coaching, address concerns, and promote growth
Defined team goals and established a culture of continuous improvement
2021 — 2022
New York, New York, United States
Designed and implemented features from conception, collaborating with team leads and product managers to translate requirements into functional code
Developed and maintained over 10 RESTful API endpoints with unit and integration tests for robust functionality.
Streamlined testing new API endpoints through the creation of Python scripts
Updated database version control by authoring Flyway scripts for efficient Postgres migrations
Mentored and onboarded new backend engineers, fostering a supportive and collaborative team environment
2019 — 2021
New York, New York, United States
Developed tool that converted and migrated database entries without resulting in downtime for platform users.
Repaired and improved pipeline that maintained resource isolation by reducing latency and allowing preemptive isolation.
Tested and documented instructions for blue-green deployment feature.
Coded job that provided daily updates via email of the functions deployed to each development environment.
2017 — 2019
Greater New York City Area
Prepared transition from legacy monolithic service to newer service that utilized microservices.
Improved backend of legacy service to perform data retrieval for users with negligible performance hit.
Retooled aspects of frontend to display information in a more accommodating way for users.
Worked with development team ranging from 3-10 members.
Documented various engineering and support processes allowing new team members to be productive more efficiently.
Participated in disaster recovery exercises.
Assisted developers from other teams with making technical decisions by weighing pros and cons.
Negotiated tasks with offshore teams.
Supported legacy application with 12-hour availability window and requests ranging from general inquiries to downtime resolution.
Onboarded 10+client systems to use with services offered.
Mentored 2 new hires to the company on different teams enhancing their transition into the company.
Interviewed 5+ candidates on their behavioral fit while providing a positive experience and avoiding implicit bias
Greater New York City Area
First Rotation (Developer Efficiency Group):
Produced Jenkins plugin that recorded and reported build information for analytics purposes with virtually no decline in performance.
Participated in code review prior to pushing to production.
Collaborated with team working on analytics tool to assist with progress on development and optimization.
Presented updates on progress and research on plugin.
Contributed to other projects on the team to break monotony and avoid burn out.
Answered support questions regarding the company's build and deployment stack.
Second Rotation (Application Platform Services):
Collaborated on REST API that reduced the barrier to entry of utilizing the team's service requiring 90% less metadata entry.
Developed solution for storing and querying user information with MongoDB.
Produced unit tests for REST endpoint methods and error handling classes.
Transitioned to working on legacy product live in production.
Education
2011 — 2015
Hunter College
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
2011 — 2015