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Kantata (formerly Mavenlink) is a project planning tool for consulting companies and other service businesses. We provide employee management, project management, team collaboration, project accounting, and business intelligence tools.I'm a Senior Software Engineer on the Resource Planning & Management team, which builds tools for matching the right employee with the right role on a given project. We're tackling a problem involving potentially huge data sets, such as optimizing the best fit for X employees across Y roles, where X and Y could both potentially number in the hundreds. My role consists of providing technical leadership as a senior individual contributor, offering experienced-based feedback and ad-hoc mentoring for newer engineers while also being responsible for delivering features.

Techtonica is a non-profit organization which aims to increase representation of women and non-binary adults in tech. It offers students six months of free, full-time tech training with living stipends and laptops, then places graduates into jobs with sponsor companies.As a volunteer mentor, I meet with Techtonica students for approximately 5 hours/week, pairing with them over Zoom to help them overcome challenges they face over the course of their learning curriculum. I leverage my previous experience as an overseas ESL teacher, prompting them with questions to help them discover the solutions on their own (rather than me feeding them the answers or performing the coursework for them). I'm continuously gauging their current level of understanding by asking comprehension-checking questions, and calibrating my help to avoid either talking over their heads or talking down to them.

ThoughtBot is a design & development agency. We build web & mobile apps.Achievements:• FactoryBot: a popular Ruby gem for creating test factories. Refactored the gem's test suite to remove common RSpec idioms such as "let", "subject", and "before" which, while popular, exemplified the "mystery guest" anti-pattern.• Parity: a Ruby gem which simplifies database cloning from Heroku onto a local repository. I found and fixed a bug that caused the gem to crash on Postgres version 12.0+. The cause was Postgres's ability to parallelize jobs across many processor cores. This caused later migration steps to fail if they were run before their dependency steps. I spotted this bug by reading the gem's GitHub repo, locating the code which talked directly to PostgreSQL, and removing the flags which were passed to "pg_restore" until I was able to produce the expected DB migration. I fixed the bug by making this parallelization "opt-in" instead of mandatory, making the gem single-core by default.• Client # 1: auto insurance startup. Reduced technical debt as a result of over-engineering, incorrect abstractions, and defensive programming. We significantly boosted test coverage, providing the same functionality with less code and without fear that existing features would break.• Client # 2: a brand-new React-Rails application to generate leads for a pet insurance company. I paired with one other developer and 2 designers to produce a web application based on high-fidelity Figma specs provided by the PM + designer. The web app was hosted on Heroku, managed its own state via Redux, and interacted with a 3rd-party insurance underwriter's RESTful API. I wrote the code which collected the user's information, submitted payment data directly to the 3rd party API (thus avoiding PCI-related liabilities on the client's server), and persisting a successful response to our server. Libraries used- Babel, Webpacker, Jest, Puma, Clearance, Thunk, Axios, React-Testing-Library.

Bucket list trip(s):• Hamburg: like the canals of Venice, but with better beer. Photogenic AF.• Amsterdam: ate my first herring sandwich. Met Rob, owner of Rob Wigboldus Vishandel, the sweetest fishmonger you'll ever meet.• Oslo: climbed to the snow-covered roof of the city's opera house.• Stockholm: a very picturesque, snowy train ride from airport to city centre.• Tallinn: cobblestone streets & delicious schnapps. An underrated city.• Palm Springs: An oasis of iconoclastic design + architecture. Richard Neutra, Donald Wexler, Eames brothers, Movie Colony, John Lautner + the Bob Hope house, butterfly roofs, E. Stewart Williams, Albert Frey, Lloyd Wright, Tramway Gas Station. Mid-Century Modernism at its finest.• Montreal/Quebec City: ate at Joe Beef + L'Affaire Est Ketchup, two restaurants beloved by Anthony Bourdain (RIP). Ate way too much Montreal smoked meat.• Dublin: Trinity Library is straight out of a Harry Potter movie.• Belfast: toured the Catholic & Protestant sides of the "Peace Line". Saw how awful people can be when they put their tribe above all else.• Islay, Scotland: the smell of sea air mixed with peat bogs is unforgettable. Paid my respects @ Laphroaig, my favorite scotch distillery. Shared a bottle of Bowmore 18-year on the boat of a charming retired British couple who were sailing the British Isles, while the husband told me about working with Steve Ballmer at early-days Microsoft.• Edinburgh: visited Trainspotting's filming locations and ate 5 different kinds of haggis.• London: hit up multiple record stores (Phonica Records, Honest Jon's, etc.). Could easily live here, can't wait to go back.• Berlin: Templehof Airport is an old airport-turned-city-park, where the Berlin Airlift was conducted. More record stores.• Manchester: missed my chance to visit the Hacienda and Factory Records (home of Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays). There's always next trip.

With a team of 5, launched a tool for tracking quality inspections and receipts of ingredients into our warehouses. Rails backend and Ember front-end. Eventually handed sole responsibility for this tool. Accomplishments include:• Built service for preventing allergen conflicts between neighboring pallets in our warehouse, automating a task which had previously been done manually (and which was therefore prone to costly errors).• Identified a persistent error resulting in potential delayed payments to our vendors. Reduced average # of days since last error from 1 to 5 by implementing code fixes which empowered users to fix mistakes before they happened.• Built service for sending daily summary emails to BA's purchasers showing how many purchase orders are expected, late, etc. This gave buyers visibility into vendor delivery performance, so they could follow up about late deliveries.

-Employed test-driven development to implement features for in-store mobile apps for The Gap, one of the company's largest clients by revenue and consultant staffing. These apps performed the following functions:• In-store credit card enrollment, • Customer self-serve checkout, and• Associate checkout using latest credit card securitization methods (EMV smart-chips)-Participated in full Agile development process as one member of a three-person "pod" of developers. Responsibilities included:• Inception and iteration planning,• Story creation and point estimation,• Daily stand-ups,• Velocity tracking,• Pair programming,• Continuous deployment, and• Showcases and retrospectives.-Sample accomplishments:• Identified code duplication in unit- and integration-level pipeline tests, the deletion of which reduced test runtime for that application from 2 1/2 hours to 1 1/2 hours.• Co-wrote the product page for a proof-of-concept Angular application using design specs provided by external UX team.• Refactored untested and seldom-used Angular directives into controllers, making them easier for novice Angular developers to maintain. Implemented 100% test coverage for these controllers.-Tech stack: Objecive-C, Javascript, Ruby, Java 7, AngularJS, Spring MVC, Cucumber, Jasmine, JUnit, Ruby.-Tools: Git, SVN, IntelliJ, Sublime, vim, JIRA.-Methodologies: Agile workflows, pair programming, test-driven development, daily stand-ups, weekly retrospectives.

• Collaborated with scrum master and product owner in bi-weekly sprints to complete assigned stories and track time spent using Agile workflow tools such as Pivotal Tracker, Jira and internal code review applications.• Wrote unit tests in Jasmine and integration tests in Cucumber and Selenium to support long-term code maintenance.• Used code collaboration frameworks (Git, etc.) to share code between myself, other apprentices, and senior engineers.• Wrote an ad-hoc Ruby script which made HTTP requests to our server that duplicated a client's data for testing purposes. The client had previously done this duplication manually.• Performed bugfixes for customer-facing D3, Java, Backbone.js and jQuery user interfaces.• Assisted with front-end and back-end debugging, leading up to the launch of a major company product rollout. Specifically:• Fixed 404 issues.• Performed user testing and implemented CSS fixes for various pages of the UI, in both English and Japanese.• Refactored server-side controllers to re-use more of the existing codebase, using object-oriented principles such as inheritance and composition.