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New York City Metropolitan Area

New York, United States

• Design, build, and deploy custom AI solutions
• Software engineering mentorship
• Technical expert interviews and evaluations

New York, New York, United States

• Integrated with external vendors to ingest updates to securities, market capitalizations, corporate actions, etc., providing required data feeds for 83% of new customers
• Collaborated cross-team with portfolio accounting on critical API and workflow enhancements that contributed to 1000x performance increase in V2 system
• Eliminated 25% of fixed costs for pipeline testing environments by identifying and removing environments where fixed cost exceeded variable cost with no impact on code velocity
• Implemented site reliability solutions using Datadog monitors integrated with Slack channels and messaging, improving response rate to failures from 3 hours to 7 minutes
• Built reusable relational subquery and query components to replace in-memory data processing, boosting performance ~9x
• Advocated for regular and formal technical design reviews to increase knowledge sharing, decrease re-work, and empower faster and more thoughtful code review

New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Apex is an API proxy for microservices. Designed for small teams that have just begun migrating from a monolith to a microservices architecture, it provides one place to log and control service-to-service traffic. Apex.
• Designed solution architecture and created initial design drawings
• Designed middleware to manage fault-handling logic, such as retries, backoff and timeout
• Designed relational database table schema for log storage
• Wrote middleware logic for request/response log storage
• Built admin user interface (React) and API (Node/Express)

Greater New York City Area

• Instruct students in full-stack software development: React/JavaScript, Ruby/ Rails, SQL, Node, Git, database/API design, algorithms/data structures
• Prepare supporting material for lessons (linked list implementation, React apps, Node/Express servers, Sequelize ORMs, scripted lesson plans, etc.)

Farmingdale, New York

• Owned websites for five distinct products. Decreased mobile site payload from 10.6MB to 1.6MB, increasing mobile conversion rate increased by 21.9% and adding a projected $700k in revenue over 5 months
• Built event-sourced workforce management quality assurance app, increasing call center QA efficiency by 45%. Built controller routes, request objects and handlers (command pattern), and event applicators for Audit.
• Designed and built cloud ETL solution for ingesting Excel spreadsheets, persisting reporting data in relational databases, replacing legacy integration with on-premises database. Built cloud devops dashboard to monitor.
• Added new dimensions to OLAP cube and created custom PivotTables in Excel for sales floor management team, enabling 200% growth in sales staff with no new management overhead
• Designed and deployed automated vendor report delivery system using Azure Logic Apps, saving three hours per week of developer time
• Migrated on-premises relational database to the cloud, decreasing costs by 65%

Computer Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: core curriculum; Capstone mentoringMastery-based program focused on software engineering fundamentals, backed by.

C# Path, Computer Software Engineering, Expert (96Th Percentile)

Over 50 hours of beginner, intermediate and advanced courses, capped by Pluralsight's Skill IQ assessment. Supplemented with 100+ hours of.

Grow With Google Mobile Web Specialist, Computer Software Engineering

~500 hour curriculum developed by Google and Udacity to learn and demonstrate cutting-edge web development skills designed to optimize the.