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• Contributed to InsurTech platform (React, Typescript, Go, Python, Flask, MySQL) delivering life insurance products.• Wrote microservices in Python & Golang to ship RESTFUL APIs and handle third-party integrations.• Wrote raw sql queries, transform into human-readable format, and output most up-to-date data from the database.• Sped up the dashboard page loadtime by combining client-sided pagination with backend SQL cursor-based queries; optimize the caching, sorting, and filtering widgets with React Query hooks.• Leveraged Python Boto3 client in accessing AWS S3 buckets and retrieving PDF documents.• Worked closely with the design team to translate wireframes and mockups into interactive web pages, maintaining a consistently high standard of visual design and user interface.

• Supported web development (React, Typescript, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB) of note taking services, driving quarterly revenue increases in 17.1% from public/private school clients.• Conducted thorough debugging to ensure the platform was responsive and compatible across different devices.• Implemented SSO with Microsoft and Google - note taking sessions are smartly logged on user calendars.• Maintained GraphQL API endpoint, leveraged react-pdf library to allow users to customize PDF document generation.• Leveraged Ruby gem Pundit to restrict certain views/actions to authorized users on Rails admin page.• Parsed YAML config files to enable switching between different staging environments and synchronously connecting to respective PostgresQL DB instances hosted on AWS RDS.

• Monitored 30+ students’ growth in algorithmic problem solving skills in evening class• Distributed weekend homework to assess students’ learning outcomes• Provided constructive feedback on students’ live coding and communication skills

• Leveraged financial technology (React, Typescript, Ruby on Rails, Postgres) in saving American workers a yearly estimate of $3.5 million on pretax spending.• Contributed to GraphQL API logic in determining user eligibility for FSA/HSA spending.• Contributed to admin UI page powered by Rails to allow protected CRUD actions for payroll and customer support.• Absorbed domain knowledge by maintaining notion docs and pair programming with senior engineers.• Covered spending eligibility edge cases by writing meaningful tests - grace period, terminated employee, etc.

• Led a technical evening program at Brooklyn College focused on interview prepping• Introduced students to whiteboarding & pair programming on Leetcode and Hackerrank• Designed a course covering common key concepts in algorithm problems: stack, tree, linked list, graph

• Used Git to manage and track code changes, ensuring efficient collaboration and codebase integrity (HTML, CSS, JS).• Maintained scholarshipjunkies.org - from landing pages to form submission templates.• Understood the product and brand in order to tell a compelling story through web implementation.• Fixed business logo misalignment, image resizing in email template; fixed email subscription bug.