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Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, Washington, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Bootstrapped new service team by onboarding and mentoring new team members including leading an intern project
• Architected and drove implementation for internal services that operate at industry leading scale and durability
• Represented team services as a subject matter expert during organizational planning processes
• Advocated for developer experience through a cross team dev-ex improvement program designed to reduce operations related engagement hours

Seattle, WA, US

• Responsible for responding to operational events for services available worldwide through an on call rotation
• Led initiatives to improve operational posture by streamlining CI/CD pipelines and wrangling version dependency conflicts
• Identified performance bottlenecks through log diving and metric analysis, then designed and implemented solutions that improved workflow runtimes by over 50%
• Reduced technical debt by participating in campaigns to update dependencies, support new platforms, improve documentation and refactor complicated or unnecessary code

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Led front end development for a fully featured web application using React JS and Redux
• Created performant visualizations for large GeoJSON datasets using the Google Maps API
• Wrote modular and testable React components using modern Javascript design principles

San Antonio, TX, US

• Tutored under the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) for the following classes:
• Computer Science 1 and 2 (Scala)
• Discrete Structures (Theory)
• Low Level (C)
• Data Abstraction (C++)
• Functional Programming (Haskell)

San Antonio, TX, US

• Teaching assistant for Data Abstractions (CSCI 2320)
• Hosted weekly office hours to assist students solving homework problems
• Graded students' assignments
• Developed improvements to the automatic submission grading server code

Seattle, WA, US

• Implemented Spark jobs for Amazon EMR using the Java Spark API to handle extremely large datasets running in a production environment
• Followed the end to end feature launch process from design and review to implementation and testing
• Collaborated on a team of diverse and talented engineers
• Wrote scalable and readable Java 8 code using standard libraries like Guava, Guice and Lombok, along with unit-testing libraries Mockito and JUnit

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Designed and implemented full serverless web backends in AWS using DynamoDB, API Gateway, Lambda, IoT Core, and Cognito among others.
• Coordinated a team of software and hardware engineers using Agile to implement end-to-end IoT product solutions based on a provided set of requirements
• Created and documented secure networking solutions using BLE, HTTPS, MQTT and Websockets
• Developed mobile applications for both Android and iOS using React Native

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Developed software in C for the ESP32 Microprocessor in a production environment
• Designed and implemented networked tools using various protocols including BLE, Websocket, and MQTT
• Engineered and developed IoT cloud software in AWS, and supporting mobile applications for Android and iOS
• Gained practical experience creating solutions with IoT, Mobile, Smart Products, and Connected Cloud Technologies
• Worked in a startup environment with a team of fellow engineers to design full stack software and hardware products

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Study Abroad, Informatics

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