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Jersey City, Nj, Us

Lakewood, Colorado, Us

- Develop UI for live stream video using React/TypeScript- Led an effort to upgrade a legacy web app to the latest React versions resulting in increased performance and long-term support- Led an effort to establish automated E2E testing to reduce regression issues- Increased frontend unit test coverage by 30%- Work with junior developers to mentor about best practices and pattens- Work with design, product, and backend teams to ensure quality user experience

Dallas, Texas, Us

Lead senior web developer for a mid-size telecommunications firm:- Improve usability for a telecommunications administration tool to increase efficiency for their customer service capabilities and modernize their web platform- Ensure code quality standards are met via pull request reviews, paired programming, and collaborative debugging- Manage and mentor a team of 4 junior frontend developers- Maintain project health through regular architecture reviews and team velocity assessments- Manage communication between interdependent service teams across multiple time zones

Dallas, Texas, Us

Acted as a full-stack developer for a large-scale food bank:- Designed and developed features for a monolith web application that serves upwards of 800,000 patrons a year. Created a system to automate food delivery requests, track client orders, manage driver/client communication, and manage a food pantry partner network. Increased overall food delivery throughput- Our work convinced Amazon to award the client (Houston Food Bank) funding with the AWS Imagine Grant- Conducted team Agile ceremonies such as: Standups, Retros, Sprint plannings, and DemosActed as a developer lead for a full-stack project for an energy transmission company:- Designed wireframes and developed front-end components using Knockout.js, HTML, and CSS to build a multitude of features, including one that allowed end-users to create and monitor critical, high-profile projects that integrated with their current project management application. Design mock-ups were created with Lucidchart- Developed and supported backend API endpoints in Java to enable the aforementioned project management tool, including updating a scheduling feature for project planning.- Assisted in migrating a production-use tool (MicroStation) to a later version by resolving compatibility issues with outdated customized scripts- Assisted with code delivery and was responsible for approving and merging pull requests- Helped enable testing standards for the client and brought about an approach to more fully integrate testing frameworks into our workflows

Dallas, Texas, Us

Assisted in the development of a mobile application for a well-known food bank:- Developed and deployed back end APIs using JavaScript and the Serverless Framework to connect to a third-party system. Hosted these APIs on AWS Lambda.- Integrated the APIs into the mobile app using its React Native base. Created front end UI components for clients to interact with the third party system so that they can register themselves as users and schedule appointments at select food pantries easily through the app.- Assisted in the deployment of the app which is now available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.Worked as a full-stack web developer for a large-scale oil and gas company:- Created front end UI web components with React to assist in the development of an engineering document review capability. Used Balsamiq as a tool for a mockup designs- Developed, deployed, and integrated back end APIs for the application, utilizing JavaScript, Serverless, and a multitude of AWS services (DynamoDB, Cognito, API Gateway, Lambda)- Designed and implemented real-time notification and chat features using AWS API Gateway websockets and Serverless- Set up initial DevOps pipelines with AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline for both front and back end resources to help automate deploymentsWorked as a backend engineer for a popular financial mobile application:- Utilized Python/Django ORM to create back end service and persistence layer methods for two new features: one to enable payments for a secondary user account, another to add a new way to fund payments- Designed database schemas in SQL along with entity relationship diagrams to present high and low level flows to the client- Coordinated communication and feedback loops across multiple interdependent scrum teams to ensure dependencies and deadlines were met- Assisted in running regular scrum team meetings, including stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog groomings

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

High School Degree