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New York, New York, United States

* Led an initiative to reduce customer service costs by integrating OpenAI's API with Zendesk Support Center articles, creating a ChatGPT-like experience that addresses customer queries through AI-driven responses.* Led several business initiatives like whitelabeling for our partners/clients, and unifying several acquired applications into a single authentication system.* Integrated OpenApi generators for react-query hooks, server-to-server, and GraphQL calls. Spearheaded adoption of NestJs for all node servers (including lambda microservices).* Initiated and secured buy-in for coding and review standards across repositories for consistent code quality. Defined best practices for NestJs servers, integrating API libraries, centralized error handling, and structured logging. Advocated for a component-based UI development flow, aligning UX with engineering capabilities.* Achieved VPAT standards for accessibility across platforms. Replaced a legacy authentication system with a NestJs server that included SSO and RBAC; withstanding multiple security evaluations. Created a messaging and notification service for communicating deployments, downtime to clients.* Modernized repositories by consolidating and converting them into mono-repos. Directed consolidation of login across acquired and native products, enhancing user experience and security.* Transformed our development process by automating a GraphQL NestJS server via introspection, boosting efficiency and maintainability; providing a glide path to retire a legacy Scala monolith project.* Conducted routine lunch-and-learn presentations for 62 developers to provide education and awareness of the technologies. Provided mentorship to engineers at various career stages, enhancing their professional development and technical skills.* Pioneered efforts to standardize, optimize, and automate container creation and release processes, ensuring consistent and efficient deployment practices.

11 Wall Sreet

* Co-led efforts in designing a single application used for various trade desk operations, across numerous acquired exchanges by NYSE. * Co-authored a prototype for a client-facing application with trading and listing partners that was later adopted. * Collaborated closely with business stakeholders to enhance product features and functionality, and provide guidance to the business on transitioning legacy applications to web-based applications.* Architected successful transition of an AngularJS application to React and Typescript. * Provided UX designs to ensure a seamless user experience for both internal and client-facing applications,* Introduced NYSE’s first shared component library that encompassed components across several applications; including wrappers for libraries like AgGrid, Material UI, and various form components.* Mentored junior developers and QA in JavaScript, React, unit testing, integration testing using Jest, and end-to-end testing with Puppeteer; providing guidance on best practices.* Introduced unit and integration testing based on Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), contributing to over 8,000 tests .* Collaborated with various other development teams to create a code-style guide used for code review evaluation.

Greater New York City Area

* At a leading global investment bank, served as lead UI engineer for an AngularJS based hybrid CMS for sharing internal trading and financial research. Contributed to an internal over-the-counter CLO trading application written in react, containing a matching engine written in Java using Dropwizard.* Collaborated with principal engineers to design interview and screening challenges. Participated in several interviews.* Played lead UI role; worked with business analysts to provide technical analysis to help scope out feature work for sprints. Provided expertise and guidance to peers.

Farmington, Michigan, United States

* Leveraged AWS to dynamically scale and live-render white-labeled videos for Audi customers that included dynamic insertions of text, images, and animations. This involved researching and developing multiple streaming formats that included HLS and FLV. * Led a revamp of a hybrid-mobile brochure application for Ford that enabled in-app content updates in the background; and various native plugins for a sleeker experience. * Worked with a team of developers to convert a large legacy application from PHP and MySQL to a SPA with AngularJS and a .NET with SQL Server backend. * Architected a white-labeled brochure creation system that was later used in SAAS products for Audi, Mazda and Ford.

Walled Lake, Michigan

* Collaboratively designed and developed the comprehensive website for the lab, featuring public, member, and administrative interfaces.* Offered settings adjustments for samples and public profiles. Integrated custom label and report generation tools.* Enabled chemists to effortlessly upload, manage, and monitor sample data and associated imagery.* Granted the owner exclusive access to specific CRM pages, facilitating the monitoring of sales performance based on time scales, groups, and individual member metrics.* Post-launch of the site, the company witnessed a remarkable increase in its performance metrics with a fourfold rise in revenue and a significant surge in membership, all within the inaugural year.

Chicago, Illinois

* Collaborated with a senior developer to migrate an embedded Java Applet to a PHP application; creating and wiring up RESTful services between the two applications.* Authored several jQuery plugins to help reduce duplicate code and enhance scalability of the UI code.* Made strategic modifications to the core of Joomla, optimizing it for the platform's specific needs.* Spearheaded the UX redesign initiative, elevating the overall user experience and interface.

Lansing, Michigan, United States

* Partnered with the owner to devise a comprehensive lab information system complemented by a website.* Engineered custom libraries for report generation, labeling, and efficient result data processing.Conceived an email-based reporting mechanism for delivering lab outcomes to clients.* Actively coordinated with business frontrunners to organize and offer educational seminars across various locations: Detroit, Traverse City, Grand Rapids, and Lansing.* Innovated business analytics utilities, prominently featuring a net operating income gauge which accounted for expenditures linked to sample retrieval and processing.