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Served as a Software Engineer and PERN Stack Instructor in an early-stage edtech environment—leading cohort instruction and mentorship while also contributing to production engineering work. Partnered with leadership to shape technical direction, delivered and continuously improved a PERN + AWS curriculum, and built full-stack features and platforms—documenting code, processes, and curriculum updates to support repeatable delivery and scalable operations.

Live Engineering Instruction (Real-Time Debugging + Algorithms): Ran daily live-coding sessions and technical deep dives, fielding real-time student questions and debugging unfamiliar issues on the spot. Taught practical problem solving (data structures, algorithms, and interview-style exercises) by translating abstract prompts into working code, tradeoffs, and clean implementation patterns—mirroring real developer workflows.

Projects / Specific Work

Bootcamp Instruction (PERN + AWS): Delivered a 3-month, project-based full-stack curriculum; led live instruction, exercises, code reviews, and mentorship focused on job readiness.

Curriculum Modernization: Updated course materials with modern dev practices and tooling; documented changes/resources for consistent cohort delivery.

Salesforce-Integrated Blog Feature: Built a full-stack blog feature (React, JS, HTML/CSS, Express) with Salesforce Apex supporting dynamic content and publishing workflows.

Raffle Platform (Our Future Generation): Co-led architecture and development (React, Express, PostgreSQL) including AWS Cognito auth, JWT-secured APIs, Square payments, and admin dashboards.

Technical Strategy & Leadership: Worked directly with the CEO to evolve the stack and translate product vision into an actionable engineering roadmap.

Built and deployed custom HTML5 rich media ad units for Mass Appeal client FXStudio, integrating with Google Studio.

Served as a web development consultant to a creative agency, partnering with designers/producers to translate creative concepts into performant, spec-compliant campaign assets across browsers and devices.

Ensured deliverables met platform requirements (file size, load performance, click-through behavior).

Selected as 1 of 25 from 1,200+ applicants for a full-time, 12-week software engineering program focused on building full-stack web applications with React and Java/Spring Boot, emphasizing modern tooling, testing, Agile delivery, and cloud deployment.

Projects / Specific Work

Unit 1 (Front-End Project): Built the front-end for a Reddit-like app with login, post creation, feed rendering, and commenting—using HTML/CSS and JavaScript fundamentals (DOM/events/APIs) and Git/GitHub workflows.

Unit 2 (Backend Project): Implemented a Spring Boot + Postgres monolithic backend for the Unit 1 app, applying relational modeling + SQL/JPA/Hibernate and JWT-based API authentication.

Infrastructure & Architecture: Worked through microservices concepts and delivery fundamentals including Docker, Kubernetes, deployment, and logs/monitoring.

Capstone: Designed and built a full-stack application with a React front end and microservices back end, deployed to AWS, using pair programming and product-style deliverables (user stories, wireframes, README, consistent Git commit history).

Testing & Delivery Practices: Practiced test-driven and component/API testing across the stack (Mocha/Chai, jUnit, Jest/Enzyme) alongside Agile/Scrum delivery.

Client work includes: The Global Poverty Project, Spark451, CLICKON Media, Nice Bike Productions, 1E Inc, Kurtosys Systems, and The Bella Abzug Leadership Institute.

Produced end-to-end video projects for a range of clients across music, tech, media, marketing, and nonprofits—owning pre-production through delivery (planning, shooting, editing, audio, and final exports).

Collaborated directly with stakeholders to translate goals into clear creative direction, manage timelines, and deliver polished, platform-ready content.