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Seattle, Wa, Us

- Led architecture design, software implementation, and project delivery of multiple services serving millions of requests per day and saving $1M+/year.- Led deprecation of 10+ year old legacy service and rebuilt service with scalable, simplified, cloud-based architecture, saving an estimated 5 weeks/year of engineering effort.- Revamped team planning practices and served as team agile lead for 2.5 years (planning + leading sprint planning, grooming, and standup meetings).- Won the peer-nominated Q1 2024 engineering excellence award for org.- Mentored interns, new hires, and junior engineers (including external teams).

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Designing and building systems to protect Amazon customers against scammers and other cybercriminals.

Evanston, Il, Us

Rehired six times by computer science department for: COMP_SCI 101, COMP_SCI 111 (2x), and COMP_SCI 211 (3x).Developing course material and leading discussion sections/office hours in C, C++, and Racket, teaching 200+ students over two years.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Proposed and developed an automated software solution to save the finance team 500+ hours/year in manual labor: a full-stack individual project using React, Java, and MongoDB.Extended React web app to add functionality for CSV downloads and client-side PDF generation.Wrote Java API to allow web app to interact with backend microservices and update database.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Internship program cancelled due to COVID-19.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed start-to-end implementation and launch of email-viewing portal in use by 100% of company’s clients (project used React, Redux, Python, Django, and Google Datastore).Rebuilt popular web page on core product from scratch to improve UI and integrate new functionality.Developed and deployed four Amazon-funded product features to production for client use.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Developed automated email and in-app receipt system, creating receipts that are shown to any citizen of North Carolina when they register/renew their vehicle or order a personalized license plate.With a team of four, created a web and mobile app for North Carolina DMV in 10 weeks, currently being used statewide: milestone project in raising $100M in next funding round (Java, React, React Native, MongoDB).

Evanston, Il, Us

Prototyping app for the Northwestern University BME Graduate Department to facilitate better student-lab interactions during Ph.D. recruitment.Conducting over twenty user interviews and surveys and, based on findings, proposing revamped overall recruitment process changes to Director of Ph.D. Admissions.Compiling 120+ page report on user research, feedback, and product design.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

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