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Mountain View, WY, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Developed and deployed user dashboard for customer accounts including team management, account metrics data visualization, and API logs.
• Backend built serverless in node using AWS Lambda and AWS Dynamo DB. Account metrics data pulled from a Redshift (Postgres) data warehouse. User authentication handled via AWS Cognito. Backend CI/CD handled using SAM.
• Frontend built using React, relying heavily on hooks. Testing handled using Jest and React Testing Library. Styling handled using Sass/SCSS using CSS module pattern. CI/CD handled using github actions hosting via AWS.
• Led full redesign of the dashboard
• Led the introduction of testing on the dashboard, leading to huge improvements in site reliability and greatly enhanced and more predictable UX.

San Francisco, California, US

• Developed and deployed embeddable UI components colloquially referred to as "Drop-ins". Built using Preact using minimal footprint to reduce bundle size, and bundled using Vite.
• Styling handled using Vanilla Extract CSS-in-JS, including a dynamic component theming solution built on scoped CSS variables via Vanilla Extract's Theme Contract API.
• Enhanced form validation and submit handling logic built around the Constraint Validation API to leverage built in browser functionality, reducing the component footprint.

Arlington, VA, US

• Developed and deployed a metrics reporting, dashboarding, and meeting management portal targeted towards the executive council and senior leadership members. This team was a part of a larger group of agile teams in a.
• Backend was built on a microservice architecture. The app's core microservice was built using Kotlin, Spring Boot, and SQL Server, and was maintained by the team. A CI/CD pipeline fed deployments through several.
• Frontend was built using React and Typescript. The app started in redux, then transitioned to context api and hooks for global state management. External data was brought in through an api layer on the context to.
• Styling was created using componentized scss compiled with webpack. Designs were based off material patterns. Responsive design was handled using flexbox.

Arlington, VA, US

• Developed and deployed a web app to facilitate the feasibility analysis and certification process of new additive manufacturing parts. This team was a strict XP team working in a rapid pace agile environment.
• Backend was built using Kotlin, Spring Boot, and MySQL. Outside data was pulled in from Teradata at great time expense. Authentication was handled by an external SSO OAuth2 provider. A CI/CD pipeline fed deployments.
• Frontend was built using React and Typescript. Time on the team included a full frontend/BFF rewrite from a legacy Thymeleaf/JQuery/SpringMVC setup. Tested with enzyme, mocha, chai, and sinon.
• Styling was done using componentized scss compiled with webpack. Styling was transitioned from materialize css framework to custom responsive layouts using flexbox augmented with material-ui components.

Toulouse, Occitanie, FR

• Developed and deployed a multithreaded, Node based, third party app with a chat-bot user interface for a Game of Thrones based mobile game on a globally distributed team.
• App consists of a Node server hooked up to a PostgreSQL database. A time-intensive update cycle is split off into child processes to avoid blocking and overflow. Users access the tool through a chat client using text.
• Text command handling implements fuzzy logic and unicode normalization. Results are styled using markdown.

Seattle, WA, US

• Built and maintained internal dictionary conversion tooling in Ruby and Node as sole team developer. Validated and converted publisher XML content to Amazon ebook formats. Produced final kindle ebooks to be loaded and.
• Main dictionary conversion tool built in Ruby took content from the publisher in XML format and converted it into kindle specific XHTML using XSLT templating.
• Other tooling in Node built to convert publisher provided material into compliant XML, as well to run post conversion processes on existing XHTML files.
• Built a web app using AngularJS to allow publishers to enter dictionary content and have it formatted into Amazon DTD compliant XML.
• Restyled publisher provided front matter and back matter into ebook format using HTML and CSS.