Built a Shopify development store to integrate with private apps, in order to provide a list of products for purchase

Implemented a shopping cart for users to add items, update, and check out with items in the cart

Styled all React components with MUI (formerly Material-UI) resulting in a coherent design and user workflow, used a 3-step process for a streamlined checkout experience

Saved order information (shipping information and cart content) to MongoDB for users to update and delete orders based on the email used at checkout

Engineered comprehensive search functionality backed by Google Places API and Geolocation API with filtering and distance-based sorting

Managed data returned by the API using React Context, resulting in minimal data requests

Researched production frameworks and pitched Next.js to the team, resulting in a lightning-fast production build with an average first contentful paint of 0.7s

Completed user-story responsibilities early and assisted teammates in trouble-shooting and feature implementation

Built a microservice-based backend system with an initial capacity of 100 requests per second, optimized to 8000 RPS, a 790% throughput increase

Increased system capability using horizontal scaling and load balancing with NGINX

Identified and resolved performance bottlenecks with Loader.io and K6

Reduced lookup time in a read-heavy PostgreSQL database of over 10 million records from 3s to <10ms with query planner and query optimization