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Engagement: Lead Frontend Engineer for a biometric medical device companyReduced experienced load times by 3x after updating application to cache network data with React Query and prefetching route data.Improved type coverage of network request and UI components by 6.1%.Reduced build times by 2x and reduced dev server cold start time by 7.5x by porting a custom webpack configuration to Vite.Engagement: Frontend Engineer for an autonomous welding robotics compnayDeveloped a web-based Human Machine Interface using React, TypeScript, Redux, RTK Query, and Vite. Wrote unit and integration tests using Vitest and React Testing Library, maintaining 99.7% code coverage. Integrated with a Robot Operating System (ROS) API to establish real-time communication with robotic hardware. This involved creating and managing WebSocket connections for seamless data exchange, enabling the system to respond effectively to dynamic environments. Authored several TypeScript declaration files for an internal library, facilitating code reuse and ensuring type safety across the project. Contributed to documentation, requirements analysis, and UX design discussions. Collaborated with a team of 8 engineers to build new features and fix bugs in an agile environment. Screened and interviewed new contractor candidates to assess technical skills.

Bloomington, Indiana

Created a CSS editor component for our dashboard, allowing customers to update their booking site styles without needing the help of a Periodic developer, ultimately saving 5-10 hours of developer time per sprint.Developed a search application that checks if an address matches a predefined array of geographic polygons, which has processed tens of thousands of searches leading to over 6,000 successful conversions.Built a signup application that uses a dynamically created form and payment information to enable customers to instantly integrate with the Periodic platform.Lead and mentored our QA Engineer Intern in creating our company’s first E2E automated tests using Cypress.

Bloomington, Indiana

• Worked directly with school district stakeholders to help coordinate over 400 onsite professional development workshops per year with customer satisfaction ratings averaging 4.5/5.• Partnered with field sales team, providing feedback and support to accelerate sales contributing to more than 2x Professional Development Department revenue growth during my tenure.• Created and reviewed contracts that ranged between $25K - $2M for a portfolio valued at $5M.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Italian Language And Literature

Two years of completed coursework

Master’S Degree, Italian Studies

Focus: Modern Italy

Bachelor’S Degree, Italian And International Affairs

Minor: Political Science