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• Leveraged Atlassian CI/CD tools to achieve 99% successful automated deployments to Staging and Production. Modularized discrete build steps, reducing time-to-failure reporting by 20 minutes per build.
• Enhanced team agility by integrating real-time build alerts, reducing build fix times from hours to minutes. Increased deployment frequency from every 3 months to several times per week, including hotfix deployments.
• Revamped engineering hiring to minimize industry prejudices and biases, tripling diversity in qualified candidates, improving applicant quality by 20%, and increasing satisfaction with interview candidates.
• Screened, interviewed, and evaluated candidates for technical skills and team communication effectiveness.
• Built real-time monitoring for web, Android, and iOS, reducing KPI alert time from days to seconds.
• Owned Front End observability with New Relic, increasing operational reliability, implementing real-time error alerts, and reducing reliance on customer reports.

• Transitioned the Front End team to 100% test-driven development (TDD), reducing code churn and new work rework by 80%.
• Created 46 Desktop, 23 Android, and 10 iOS apps using PWAs, React Native, and Expo, delivering isomorphic experiences across web and native apps with no reliance on native developers.
• Launched our presence on new app store marketplaces, generating 2 new revenue streams with a 15% revenue boost, increasing impressions by 30% and users by 10%.
• Designed and implemented real-time chat for 100M+ conversations across 8M users, boosting engagement by 10x.
• Implemented Web and Service Workers to support PWAs, push notifications, and background tasks, creating 3 new engagement channels and increasing user interaction.
• Collaborated across teams and implemented socket-based profile updates, reducing poll-like traffic by 80% and replacing complex REST logic with unambiguous real-time updates.

Larkspur, CA, US

• Automated AWS RDS db scrub & copy to stage environments, increasing QA parity 10X
• Created interface (Angular, d3) to consume / analyze data on platform & customer usage metrics
• Deployed & documented VM for back end of main SaaS app to aid engineering development
• Domain specialist for CI / CD, containerization, development of APIs and internal tools
• Roadmapped epics to increase speed of deployment, reduce failures, and access business intelligence data

Larkspur, CA, US

• Product owner / creator of production status / QA tracker tool (used by > 60% of company)
• Created templating engines and production instances of interactive instructional content
• Documented widget PaaS and ran initiatives increasing code coverage from 5% to 55%
• Created weekly company-wide anarchic meeting that generated sprints and epics
• Maintained Android app’s build system / visualization of data from rural African hospitals

• Installed and maintained hardware, security, and network infrastructure critical to the city.
• Successfully pitched city on new position, which is now permanent with two interns.

• NewHeelTips.com: Contributed to all facets of a successful online boutique startup with 20k orders. Managed buyer data, customer service, and product for North America.
• Technical Sales: sold industrial battery chargers and managed relationships for three global clients. Educated engineers on battery & charging technologies and practices

Concord, California, US

• Maintained a database of over 20,000 relationships.
• Coordinated grants, volunteers, and fundraising.

• Instructed and developed English language curriculum at Chongqing Normal University.
• Represented American and Chinese cultures as cultural ambassador in both countries.

Javascript

A.S. In Computer Science, Computer Engineering. Emphasis In C++, Java, & Assembly

B.A. In Music Education (Choral / Vocal), Music Pedagogy