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California, United States

Berlin & Würzburg, De

Contributing to a fast-growing, early-stage startup in the procurement space, working directly with the Head of Engineering and product team.Built and deployed a critical feature that became the most profitable launch for the company's new product line.Utilize technologies such as TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Next.js, React, and Stripe to develop scalable and efficient solutions.Collaborating with a small, agile team to build and refine the core product architecture.

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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

This was a short yet impactful 1 month stint:Led the planning of a migration from legacy systems to modern frameworks, including Next.js and CloudFront, focusing on scalability and code reusability.Implemented a CI/CD pipeline that accelerated the migration process and improved overall development efficiency.Provided technical leadership for modernizing the platform, helping the company establish a future-proof infrastructure.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Democratized the release process, enabling engineers to deploy code seamlessly by adopting best practices in DevOps and continuous integration, facilitated by extensive use of Jest for comprehensive test coverage. Led the modernization of our front-end architecture, implementing ReactJS and Redux for state management, coupled with GraphQL for efficient data fetching, to create a robust, scalable, and highly maintainable web application framework.Instrumental in elevating our engineering standards, I spearheaded the drive to enhance code quality, achieving an increase in test coverage from 0% to approximately 40% with Jest, thereby promoting a culture of code stewardship. This initiative paved the way for a more inclusive, collaborative, and ownership-driven development environment.Oversaw the strategic migration of our front-end tech stack to leverage Adobe Commerce Cloud in a headless architecture, optimizing our e-commerce capabilities and user experience by integrating ReactJS, Redux, and GraphQL. This move not only improved performance and scalability but also enhanced developer agility in feature development.Revamped our interview and onboarding processes to accelerate the vetting and hiring of talented developers. By fostering a rapid acclimatization within our ReactJS and GraphQL-based codebase, new team members could contribute significantly and efficiently early on in their tenure.Developed and implemented a career-level guide to define clear advancement criteria and expectations at each level, ensuring transparent, merit-based growth paths within our technology organization, and supporting professional development

Oakland, Ca, Us

In my role within the Clorox DTC (Direct-to-Consumer) team, I spearhead the development of compelling online user experiences for Clorox's DTC brand partnerships, employing cutting-edge technologies such as ReactJS and ReduxJS, and harnessing the power of microservice architecture to ensure scalability and flexibility.I introduced and championed the integration of unit testing across all front-end applications, utilizing Jest and @testing-library, to elevate code reliability and foster a culture of quality assurance from the onset of development.Recognizing the need for efficiency and maintainability in our development process, I led the creation of a shared state management library specifically designed for micro frontends. This initiative significantly boosted developer productivity, curtailed code duplication, and streamlined our application's overall architecture.Contributed to the design and implementation of a shared component library using ReactJS, facilitating a consistent and reusable codebase that accelerates development cycles and ensures UI/UX consistency across DTC platforms.Collaborated with the team to devise a new Git flow strategy, optimizing our code release and hotfix processes to enhance operational efficiency and reduce time-to-market for new features and fixes.As a mentor, I am committed to elevating the technical proficiency of our team members, guiding them in JavaScript best practices and testing methodologies to cultivate a high-caliber development team adept in modern web technologies.

San Francisco, California, Us

Mentored and onboarded team mates in JavaScript best practices and coding standards.Through investigation and optimization, I successfully enhanced the performance of a notably slow query in our NodeJS API, achieving a 50% improvement in speed. This optimization not only boosted our system's efficiency but also significantly enhanced user experience by providing faster access to critical data.On the development front, I actively contributed to our ReactJS component library, focusing on expanding our data visualization capabilities. Notably, I spearheaded the integration of D3.js to develop our inaugural RidgeLine chart component, which represents trending Twitter topics.

San Francisco, California, Us

At Zignal Labs, a forefront company in brand protection, we harness the power of extensive data aggregation from diverse mediums to deliver actionable insights that safeguard company reputations. As an integral part of the full-stack development team, my role is centered around designing and implementing dynamic widgets and robust APIs that enhance data visualization and user interaction.Utilizing a sophisticated tech stack that includes NodeJS for server-side operations, MongoDB for scalable database solutions, ReactJS and Redux for seamless front-end user experiences, and ElasticSearch for efficient data querying and indexing, I contribute to developing innovative solutions that transform complex datasets into clear, intuitive visualizations.My work supports clients in making informed decisions by providing them with real-time, visually compelling insights into their brand's performance across various channels. Through the creation of these widgets and APIs, I play a pivotal role in enabling Zignal Labs to offer a comprehensive suite of tools that empower companies to proactively manage and protect their brand integrity.

Micasa automates the manual process of complicated document transactions for purchasing homesAs the lead developer I built and deployed the backend services and UI as well influenced the general UX of the siteCreated complex integrations with HelloSign API, deployed our NodeJS API on AWS using Lambdas and worked closely with founders to develop marketing strategy and technical direction.Over the Summer of 2019 I led a small team of college interns to contribute to the project and identified relevant features for them to work onTechnologies included AWS, NodeJS, ReactJS, Redux. MongoDB

San Francisco, Ca, Us

As a full stack software developer on the founding team I've had the opportunity to help create and implement new features for our logistics tech startup to help facilitate and automate international trade. Using Rails, Postgres and EmberJS I worked on projects including a system to request and send quotes, aggregate data to surface information about containers as they travel as well as a program to update container arrival times

San Francisco, California, Us

On weekends I was a lead mentor at Codify, a bootcamp that teaches students the basics of front-end development like JavaScript, React JS, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap and responsive design among other things. I also led development on a fullstack web app for the learning management system for Codify to use to track student progress and communicate with mentors and students.

Emeryville, California, Us

As a full stack developer on the agile team that creates the web applications that power this 2 billion dollar business I had the chance lead development on one of our apps used to facilitate store returns which saved 10s of thousands dollars a year by preventing human error. Helped automate the process of unloading pallets from trucks through a program to bulk import product data.Our small team also built a real time system for stores to order goods and many other web apps using C#, SQL, AngularJS and .NET

Berkeley, Ca, Us

As a TA for Berkeley's full stack development program I graded assignments, helped facilitate lessons and most importantly make sure students understand the material we cover in this intensive 6 month program

San Bruno, Ca, Us

At Skyline College, I updated our department website, organized employment events, tracked student and labor data to analyze trends in the local job market and helped students with resumes and cover letters.

Bachelor'S Degree, American/United States Studies/Civilization

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