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Adyton PBC is a company that builds software solutions for the US Military. I am a consultant as a backend Django/Python developer for their mobile application. I develop and maintain the flagship product using Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies to ensure high-quality, reliable code.

I worked as a Full Stack Developer on a team of seven, contributing to assigned applications/initiatives determined by Product Leadership, and participated in Scrum ceremonies. As the Principal Full Stack Developer for two internal enterprise applications, I streamlined daily processes and reduced daily task completion times for its 10-20 users. I also worked closely with Product Leadership, Operations users, and DevOps to refine business requirements, make software architecture decisions, and… Show more I worked as a Full Stack Developer on a team of seven, contributing to assigned applications/initiatives determined by Product Leadership, and participated in Scrum ceremonies. As the Principal Full Stack Developer for two internal enterprise applications, I streamlined daily processes and reduced daily task completion times for its 10-20 users. I also worked closely with Product Leadership, Operations users, and DevOps to refine business requirements, make software architecture decisions, and develop and deploy solutions to AWS.Selected accomplishments include:--Decreased Operations users’ time spent writing surveys by incorporating LLM and image recognition AI products for a brand new application: Survey Authoring Tool, which facilitated the generation and review of show-related surveys--Improved code quality and shortened deployment windows for applications deployments by helping to implement DevOps CI/CD and microservices--Improved data quality for clients via improved day-to-day workflows and significant efficiency gains by working closely with the Operations users to address specific user workflow concerns--Took ownership of abandoned legacy applications, pushing necessary feature updates, security patches, and bug fixes by reverse engineering the existing codebase Show less

I worked as the Principal Developer for three different applications within the company tech stack. I worked directly with Product Leadership to translate high-level business goals into technical business requirements and architecture decisions. I mentored on/off shore Junior Developers by providing source code knowledge transfer, coding guidance, and troubleshooting heuristics. Provided off-hours, on-call support as an Onshore Support Developer, troubleshooting and resolving high-priority… Show more I worked as the Principal Developer for three different applications within the company tech stack. I worked directly with Product Leadership to translate high-level business goals into technical business requirements and architecture decisions. I mentored on/off shore Junior Developers by providing source code knowledge transfer, coding guidance, and troubleshooting heuristics. Provided off-hours, on-call support as an Onshore Support Developer, troubleshooting and resolving high-priority issues outside of business hours to protect client deliverables.--Developed critical feature sets and respective user interfaces to allow users to catalog and manage breaking TV and online ads, resulting in more robust data gathering by working directly with Product Leadership and CTO as a Full Stack Developer--Allowed users to precisely extract ad video creatives to expand and manage the internal ad video library by building, from scratch, a custom Bootstrap UI and backend Ffmpeg video clipping utility--Helped remove blockers so that Operations could meet their SLAs by diagnosing and resolving emergency production defects during off-hours Show less

Worked as Lead Developer within a team of five that developed and implemented solutions for a suite of applications that managed broadcast TV ads and their metadata. Provided technical advice on feature rollouts and software architecture design.--Drastically reduced time spent manually logging ads and TV schedules by collaborating with Operations users to define and implement feature sets for core internal enterprise applications that catalogs, manages, and tracks ads, ad videos, TV… Show more Worked as Lead Developer within a team of five that developed and implemented solutions for a suite of applications that managed broadcast TV ads and their metadata. Provided technical advice on feature rollouts and software architecture design.--Drastically reduced time spent manually logging ads and TV schedules by collaborating with Operations users to define and implement feature sets for core internal enterprise applications that catalogs, manages, and tracks ads, ad videos, TV schedules, and surveys for ads and television shows--Developed a web application to replace a legacy desktop application, facilitating migration to a more modern and maintainable technology stack--Rapidly designed and developed a replacement web application to support a high-definition streaming video library for broadcast television, ensuring uninterrupted service and SLAs to clients and daily operations after the sudden termination of our streaming video vendor contract Show less

Worked as a Developer for enterprise applications that allowed Product Managers to manage user permissions and for Product Leadership to view KPIs. Participated in defect overview meetings with both onshore and offshore developers.--Provided Product Leadership with more detailed insights into key performance indicators by implementing new dashboards to internal tools

San Diego, California, United States

Claritas is a marketing company that combines US Census data with client data to provide marketing insights. I worked as a developer for their flagship software products.--Empowered clients to make data-driven decisions by visualizing their reports, analyses, and segmentation data on a geospatial UI by implementing and maintaining features for flagship applications using Oracle Spatial