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Baltimore, Md, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

FBApp | Media Sharing & Creation Web Team• Managed the platform responsible for all posts on Facebook Web, millions per day.• Evaluated proposals for new features from partner teams to ensure they met our UI / UX and coding guidelines.• Led migration of text editing platform across Facebook Web to Lexical, increasing typing speed by 40% and optimizing budget by 80%. • Responsible for JS performance metrics, deprecating dead features, and reviewing/optimizing code through LazyLoad frameworks and Route Optimizations.• Rearchitected legacy code across the stack to utilize Server Side Rendering through Relay3d, platformizing and allowing partner teams to extend it easily.

Berlin, De

Polaris | Job Search Management Platform• Used React Router to create a single page application by engineering multiple front-end routes which allowed for seamless navigation giving the user a smooth experience without unnecessary server-side rendering reducing total server requests.• Established comprehensive Jest, Supertest, Enzyme and Pact testing suites to automatically run functional, integration, unit and contract testing ensuring the applications integrity allowing ease of future onboarding of developers and features.

Berlin, De

O-AuthA | OAuth 2.0 Automation Tool• Constructed OAuth2.0 and cookies distribution in a custom Express middleware designed for Google, Github, LinkedIn and Facebook protocol flow, offloading vulnerabilities and simplifying and expediting the authorization process for developers.• Published an NPM package for Express middleware architected to automate the OAuth2.0 and cookie creation processes to expedite the development process for engineers seeking a simple and secure process to decrease development time.

• Designed GraphQL Schema transpiler to transform various client queries into JavaScript objects, allowing for fast smart-caching and replicating the functionality of GraphQL resolvers within client side and server side algorithms to match data.• Constructed Redis in-memory data structure store to server-side cache processed GraphQL responses on a Node.js server to optimize lookup times and prevented stale caches using dynamic refreshing of cached data from all requests speedily.• Deployed Gatsby.js to deliver fast access to our content and docs by building a highly optimized single page app with a Lighthouse performance score of 95 and load times of 2.2 seconds on a slow 4g connection to improve user impressions.• Orchestrated AWS API Gateway with ElastiCache Redis database services to expose a Docker server endpoint to manage all API requests while connecting to a configured database delivering cached data for optimized network performance.• Accelerated at OS Labs

New York, Ny, Us

• Refactored legacy systems to query databases and algorithmically output potential positive matches for client queries.• Automated financial modeling processes using scripts to facilitate deal flow and drive negotiations between brokers.

London, Gb

• Developed various business logic algorithms with a developer team to interpret complex tax law accurately and display outputs in a user friendly manner to improve internal workflow on high value projects and organize shared documents.• Implemented a content management system with clients to securely store private information and provide necessary docs.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Worked directly with Controller and his team to manage internal accounting processes including Revenue Recognition, Accounts Payable, Payroll, and Depreciation.