One of two backend engineers on Syndio's pay equity product: a SAAS tool for analyzing a corporation's compensation data for legal and fairness insights. (Django, PostgreSQL, Redis)- Sped up calculation engine by factor of 100, reducing customer wait times for common tasks from minutes to seconds.- Worked directly with customers: onboarding, assisting with data modeling, and resolving data issues and bugs.- Api and algorithmic support for feature development, enabling us to grow to serve 60+ corporations regularly auditing pay gaps for 500k+ employees.

JobSorter – Job listing aggregator that uses machine learning to provide netflix-style rating estimations. - Built server for running various machine learning algorithms in Python with Flask. - Implemented rating estimation using Support Vector Regression and Latent Semantic Indexing. - Provided similarity queries with Latent Dirichlet Allocation and bag of words.OtterMate – Hybrid mobile app for finding roommates built on IonicFramework/AngularJS/Cordova. - Supported mobile image upload from ngCordova on the client to a Rails server. - Managed a five person team through the design, development, and deployment processes.ZombieDiner – A menu management tool for a fictional post-apocalyptic restaurant owner. - Implemented responsive single-page application with Backbone.js and jQuery UI. - Persisted application state through RESTful routes using via Node.js. - Achieved automated ui testing with Mocha, Chai, and Selenium WebDriver.ezExit – Sends you fake urgent-sounding texts via the twilio api to get you out of awkward situations. - Handled user sessions and profile management using AngularJS. - Secured user passwords by salting and hashing with SHA256.

Designed, impelemented, and deployed a web delivery system for randomized math tests, using MySQL and PHP. A version of this system is still in use by LCC and high schools throughout Lane County for math placement testing.Migrated a randomized math test generation application from Hypercard to Objective-C, including creating a robust low-level mathematical expression parser and renderer.Created a data-mining web app for teachers and administrators to analyze the dependencies and flow of students through LCC's courses. Iterated through several tech options (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Java), with the final product being built in Perl accessing Valentina DB utilizing HTML/Javascript for the front end.Maintained the math department's web server, including installing and configuring various databases, web apps, and setting up an automated backup solution.