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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

- Developed and managed the deployment of a full-stack (Ruby on Rails and Vue.js) company web application on a team of two.- Collaborated with other product teams in order to improve company-wide integration.- Constructed an asynchronous task workflow through Ruby on Rails and Amazon SQS that allowed crucial tasks to be run without interrupting regular operation.- Reduced the request time of a commonly used API query from 10 minutes to under 3 seconds.- Vastly expanded the rspec test suite from 120 tests to 677.- Wrote comprehensive documentation for application testing and deployment procedures.

- Why Can’t I Firmus?: personally built a web app that procedurally generates cantus firmi (a melodic tool that is used in music theory) based on user input, then plays back the result. Additionally, a user may input their own cantus firmus and have the program check it for errors.- Bootcamp: Learned fundamentals and best practices in full-stack web development in areas of project architecture, backend, frontend, and how to effectively self-teach new technologies- Generated technical requirements and determined the most effective solutions, created wireframes, designed schema, and researched outside resources- Built and tested the backend, incorporating external APIs- Created pages and RESTful routes, made web requests to retrieve data, formatted and styled results, incorporated libraries and themes

Coral Gables, Florida, United States

Assistant lead the tenor section of the St. Thomas Choir.

Coral Gables, Florida, United States