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Austin, Texas, United States

New York, New York, United States

• Designed new state management strategies in the React codebase, allowing components to opt into mutation-based UI updates decoupled from React’s render cycles, boosting average performance by over 40%.
• Led areas of the company’s TypeScript migration for internal training, ensuring all code followed the strictest type-safety standards, and wrote guidelines for best practices and patterns for minimizing runtime errors.
• Wrote Zod schemas to replace type guards for form validation and 3rd-party API calls, letting types be defined runtime-first, simplifying maintenance for type definitions, and reducing error rates by over 10%.Handled.
• Maintained documentation to improve accuracy and clarity, and wrote technical articles for junior developers, covering topics like environment setup and the key concepts around request caching.

Rockville, Maryland, United States

• Worked on a broker management tool in Angular, creating various components for the in-house design system, and wrote algorithms for modeling rapidly-changing broker relationships.
• Created Python ETL pipeline automations to process catalogs, simplifying Google BigQuery uploads, reducing missing/inaccurate row data by 45%, and turning four-hour monthly processes into five-minute tasks.
• Rewrote legacy scripts into Google Apps Script, increasing the performance for fuzzy matching, data querying, and automated reporting by +400%, and improving integrations with in-house JavaScript tooling.
• Codified formal guidelines for doing code reviews, raising average ZenDesk SLA ticket compliance by 28%.

Waldorf, Maryland, United States

• Created scripts for generating low-stock inventory reports by interfacing with a custom MySQL backend, slashing overstock and out-of-stock counts for the department by an average of 5% per period.
• Created a UI for cross-referencing shelf tags against inventory backstock to identify which items could be stocked out, speeding up the process for replacing inventory by an average of 2 employee hours per day.
• Performed inventory audits to reconcile backstock against database inventory counts, addressing variances in inventory value by a minimum of $10,000 per audit.Accomplishments
• Most profitable wellness department in the company in 2019.
• Most profitable store in the company in 2019.