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Burlington, North Carolina, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Technical Lead for several programs directly tied to increasing Insurance billing reimbursement amounts and expanding genetic testing selections to providers. Created Technical Design Documents (TDDs) for programs which translated business requirements into concrete technical designs that User Stories could be created from.Extensive work within React based SPA's comprised of large upgrades, improved testing initiatives, and addition of new ordering workflows throughout the entire physician ordering experience including searching for tests through a catalog, adding those tests to a cart, completing a multi-step checkout form, and submitting the order for lab processing.Designed and implemented APIs with Python Django Rest Framework (DRF) and Django's ORM.Integrated a Backend For Frontend (BFF) layer for several frontend applications using NestJS to act as a reverse-proxy to internal APIs and services.Integrated New Relic monitoring into several frontend applications and backend services. Created Synthetics and Alerting to notify the team via PagerDuty when alert thresholds were exceeded. Utilized Distributed Traces to investigate production errors and performance issues.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

Acted as React and JavaScript subject-matter expert to engineering department. Established best-practices for front-end development using React features such as hooks and context. Mentored other developers in development practices including testing, Component organization and abstraction, and reuse of existing code.Led front-end development and architecture of new feature implementation. New features included multi-step forms with real-time quoting of delivery service costs including integrations with Google Maps. Led UI/UX redesign implementation of form and input components. Using variant props and LESS/SCSS, components were updated in place to support deliberate roll out of new UI and functionality across the application while maintaining legacy behavior and UI.Created highly-reusable abstractions for common use-cases within React applications. Primarily using React hooks and contexts, code reuse allowed for simple unit-testing and composition. Example usages included request handling, polling request handling and form input focus management.Created responsive mobile-first web pages. Using design mocks, pages and React Components were designed to scale appropriately in both display and functionality across common device widths.Worked as a remote employee due to Covid starting in 2020.

New York, New York, Us

Led architecture for migration of legacy AngularJS apps to new React Enterprise platform. Architecture included rewrite of UI multi-step forms based on design mocks. Usage of open source libraries such as Formik and Yup accelerated development and promoted adoption across teams.Created and maintained NPM packages used across the organization. Packages promoted use of semver, babel, and proper dependency management. Use cases included common validations, simplified interfaces for input Components, and API clients. Created responsive mobile-first web pages. Using design mocks, pages and React Components were designed to scale appropriately in both display and functionality across common device widths.Mentored other developers on front-end best practices and React Component design. Topics included Webpack, CSS Modules, Responsive Web Design, Functional-Programming, and testing.Worked as a remote employee. Working in Phoenix, team was primarily located in New York. The distributed nature of the team encouraged effective communication and collaboration using Slack, Email, and Jira.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Led architecture and implementation of reusable React components. Architecture included strategies for commonizing existing UI features and creating new components using TypeScript to assist with component props and refactoring.Migrated front-end Jasmine tests to Jest and Enzyme. Created a migration strategy for legacy tests and best-practices documentation regarding proper testing strategies of ES6 and React components. Adoption of Jest led to greatly improved test execution and an elimination of random timeout failures.Advocated and implemented TypeScript integration in billing SPA. TypeScript integration helped mitigate errors when working with complex front-end data structures. The use of classes and member scoping helped onboarding of new engineers familiar with strongly-typed languages.Served as JavaScript ES6/ES7/Node.js/NPM/TypeScript SME. Mentored other developers and remote teams on best-practices regarding new syntax and package management. Topics included asynchronous code design, library development and publication, refactoring, and effective unit testing.

Denver, Co, Us

Designed and implemented a queue-based RESTful microservice API architecture. Highly performant services allowed for decomposition of business rules and allowed for cross-team adoption in the company.Advocated and implemented test driven development practices in all team repositories. Using phpunit & mocha/chai, code coverage on all projects increased to over 90% on MapQuest libraries.Redesigned Storefront B2B, Business Marketing, and Developer Blog sites. Using Photoshop PSD’s, worked closely with Marketing department to implement mobile-first responsive designs.Migrated production API’s and systems to AWS. Using Elastic Beanstalk and EC2, worked with DevOps to move applications to the cloud while adhering to company security policies.Implemented event-based service to receive and handle webhooks. Service performs asynchronous B2B data-processing based on webhooks sent by third-parties.Implemented CRM integration within Developer Portal. Accurately tracked upsells, new business, and B2B revenue. Allowed for data-driven insights about customer behavior.Created JavaScript mapping libraries for B2B Storefront.​ Using both JavaScript and TypeScript,library provides MapQuest API integration on a configurable map.Represented MapQuest as a Mentor at multiple Hackathons. Promoted the MapQuest API’s and libraries at various events across North America increasing brand awareness and new leads.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Created Geographic Information System Applications using technologies such as Node.js, AngularJS, jQuery, and the Dojo Toolkit. Utilized third-party API’s to build responsive mapping applications with queryable features based on the ArcGIS platform. Extensively used Amazon Web Services for features such as EC2, S3, CodeCommit, IAM, and VPC configuration. Assisted in design of system architectures within the AWS Cloud environment dealing with topics such as network configurations and server deployments. Created Distributed Version Control repositories using Git. Evangelized the Git SCM system to teams, and helped develop a workflow for interested teams transitioning from SVN. Used Scrum methodology to plan Sprints, estimate story points, and assign tasks in Atlassian’s Jira. Worked with Scrum Masters to plan Sprints accordingly based on previous velocity and burndown.Worked in TS/SCI environment. Adhered to all security protocols and required training.

Monroe, La, Us

Utilized Oracle databases and SQL and focused on optimizing long running queries to improve execution time for the Phone Directories team.Modified existing Perl scripts to run on multiple threads to maximize performance. Optimization reduced a long-running job from a mathematical complexity of 'n' to a much smaller complexity of 'log(n)'.Used Java language and Maven POI plugins to parse and organize Excel spreadsheets for the Engineering Facility Cost department to help organize and view data in an understandable format.