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Creating a product to allow users to securely store and share their personal documents

Elixir Labs is a non profit startup that partners with other non profits to build technical solutions for social good. Current partnerships include empowering women in Kenya, Human Rights and Social Justice in Jamaica and anti-slavery work. In the past we have also worked in the education space in Nepal and India and helped build a Tech Community in the Caribbean Islands - Developed a product vision with non profit partners and stakeholders after identifying pain points and analyzing potential solutions which led to the launch of 2 projects and current active development on 3 projects globally - Managed and collaborated with teams comprising of Product Managers, Designers and Developers using tools such as Trello for tickets, Figma for designs and Slack and Google’s enterprise tools for communication - Made initial technology assessments and selections for each project while prioritizing developer ease of use and customer’s ability to maintain the project - Monitored and optimized team processes such as code review guidelines which led to faster onboarding for new members to contribute with a sprint

I worked on the Cash App product within Square. - Analyzed analytics to Identify SEO vulnerabilities that allowed scammers to attack 20% of customers using search engines. Led development of features to improve content management, resulting in a 95% decrease in scammer success rate - Converted Support Engineering team to be Agile by using Scrum processes like bi-weekly sprints and JIRA to track tasks. This led to improved cohesion, communication and overall productivity on a new team, with average ticket resolution reducing from 3 weeks to 1 week - Orchestrated a multi platform migration process to convert help center and legal content to a new CMS. The CMS resulted in content updates taking 70% less time - Implemented a quality assurance testing grid to allow accurate manual testing of products before major launches. Identified major issues with cross border payments before the UK launch and was able to resolve with no customer impact - Led web development for first International launch in the United Kingdom. Identified and implemented localization techniques for currency and dates. Successful launch with no downtime or latency for existing US customers. Collaborated with mobile and backend developers, marketing and scalability teams on product launch - Analyzed and created a roadmap to add translations to the Cash App productAside from my engineering work, I was an active member in growing the office culture. Within two years, our office grew from 20 to nearly 70 people. I conducted interviews, onboarded new hires and trained interns. I was also an active and vocal member of the WomEng community, organizing annual meetups in our headquarters, as well as numerous events to improve and empower fellow women engineers.

Part of the Network Team managing the Domain Name System on Azure Cloud.Implement additional features and monitoring tools for Microsoft's DNSLed IDNS Tenant Migration, conducted stress-test based evaluation to analyze and adjust resource usage. Performed on-call responsibilities to investigate and repair issues on our live services

As the founder of UofTHacks, I helped create an environment for students to hack and compete. The event had numerous sponsors such as Shopify, Google, Microsoft, and Blackberry. It ran for 36 hours and had a tech expo, job fair, seminars, and a hack expo for students to demo their hacks. I was responsible for the overall planning of the event.

A 12 month PEY internship at Oanda. On the Activation Team working on web development.

I was placed within the Kindle team and worked to build internal tools that would enhance the Digital Content Platform. Our team used the Scrum process with Code Reviews for all written code and Git as our versioning tool. I worked with both back-end tasks to create automated activation processes as well as on a separate front-end project. I used a variety of different tools such as Java, Scala, Ion, Fusion, Javascript, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, XML, Spring, Beans. I also wrote unit and integration tests, making use of tools such as Mockito in order to improve the Unit Testing procedure.

As the President of the Computer Science Student Union, I lead a team of 30 members who help plan social and academic oriented events for our Student body. This includes, but is not limited to, our popular Game Nights, Tea Time with the Profs, Lounging with Lecturers, Academic Seminars, Alumni Panels, Pub Nights and more.

Working as a Summer Intern at Kingsway Tyres Ltd

As the external liaison officer, it was part of my responsibilities to connect with external contacts to get sponsorship opportunities for events hosted by the CSSU, as well as to come up with other unique ideas on how to connect students with Computer Scientists in the working world.

I worked as a back-end and front-end developer for this company. I helped implement Facebook interaction into the website through the login page and posting. The backend work was largely in PHP with use of Javascript and the Facebook API.