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Short Hills, New Jersey, Us

- Led multiple projects, writing documentation collaborating with product managers, designers, backend developers and other product teams to ensure code quality and overall code/design consistency and quality. - Planned, proposed and implemented multiple code refactors to our frontend architecture to increase code quality, improve performance and increase developer velocity while allowing us to easily scale for the future- Converted a majority of our old Javascript to Typescript to improve code quality and in code documentation- Improve our test coverage by increasing the number of our unit (Jest), integration (Enzyme) and E2E (Cypress) tests in legacy code using bug data from Jira and Sentry

- Researched technologies, note tradeoffs and recommend solutions in collaboration with the CEO- Converted Sketch mockups to reusable UI components and documented their usage with Styleguidist for clarity- Decreased bug frequency by adding testing with Storyboard and Jest test that run on deployment with Heroku and CircleCI

New York, Ny, Us

- Launched General Assembly's first ever campus in Stamford, Connecticut- Identified potential pain points and addressed them ahead of time to ensure a successful launch as indicated by feedback obtained by students- Create visualization of student data to identify pain points that can be used to track if KPIs based on student satisfaction are being met- Mentored and trained new Instructional Associate staff through crafting on-boarding documents, giving feedback on progress and defining roles and responsibilities- Update curriculum by integrating computer science content (data structures, algorithms, etc) as part of a focus on evolving from a web development to Software Engineering- Managed relationships with internal General Assembly stakeholders and 3rd party partners

New York, Ny, Us

- Refactored legacy codebases by fixing current bugs, optimizing for performance and modernizing with new tools and technologies- Participated in daily code review of ~30 junior developers- Led and mentored multiple dev teams across multiple sprints- Developed Node/Python scripts to perform data migration tasks of sensitive user data- Prioritized tasks while managing the workflow of developer teams using Trello to ensure that deliverables were executed on schedule

Dallas, Texas, Us

- Increased SEO rankings by changing URL structure leading to 22 million increase in revenue within the first month- Deployed new features and fixed production defects on our e-commerce platform that affect ~3 million unique visitors / month using CI/CD (continuous integration/deployment)- Improved user conversion by fixing hidden bugs in 3rd party tools, leading to an improved rate of purchase- Designed and spearheaded initiative to create new site-wide feature that worked across platforms, utilizing multiple 3rd party data- Coordinated between local and offshore development teams across sprints to ensure project completion on schedule

New York, Ny, Us

- Taught fundamental frontend technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript and asynchronous Javascript with AJAX- Created lo-fi and high-fi mockups and wireframes for web apps- Used Trello to manage process of building an app from inception to completion

- Communicate programming concepts (loops, functions) to 20+ middle school children- Develop lesson plans and assignments to reinforce concepts that are taught- Review processes weekly with my TA to ensure that class is being taught optimally

New York, Ny, Us

- Created full-stack applications using JavaScript along with Python and Flask- Utilized D3.js to visualize collected data from Code Maat into various forms to aid the team to take the best course of action on projects- Designed and implemented a feature to an existing project to improve workflow on software engineering teams

Software Engineering Career Accelerator W/Cognizant

Web Development Immersive

Code Bridge, Web Development

Ux Design

Information Technology

Business Administration And Management, General