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Roseland, New Jersey, US

San Francisco, California, US

Sora was acquired by ADP in August 2023.

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Launched a brand new API architecture, modernizing our tech stack
• Provided onboarding resources and documentation to assist new team members as they started
• Peer reviewed code to ensure high quality, tested features
• Assisted in fostering a team culture of excellence and quality

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Implemented full CI/CD pipelines including automated database testing, docker image creation, and automatic deployment to various environments
• Conceptualized a brand new re-architecture of our site and the various domains required as we expanded
• Assisted in building processes for support and data integrity tasks to ensure errors did not go unresolved or unreported

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Built and maintained internal dashboards and tools for our customer support teams in React and PHP
• Introduced a dependency injection layer to our codebase, allowing quicker and easier testing, thus improving code quality and reliability
• Introduced mocked unit testing via PHPUnit, allowing us to test discrete portions of code in isolated conditions

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Achieved high-level strategic success through a technical lens for high-profile clients such as the New York Times and Atlassian
• Implemented a robust cache-friendly solution for personalized landing page content, significantly reducing server resources while quickly delivering content to end customers
• Oversaw interviews of new back-end candidates
• Led small teams of developers, providing code review and technical context to enable client success
• Led a large-scale personalization effort to convert an English site to its French Canadian equivalent and provide ease of update in the future
• Inherited a large-scale replatform of a financial client's site and services halfway through implementation, successfully launching the new site on schedule and on budget

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Provided high-quality and robust solutions to our clients to achieve their success
• Implemented a custom content app in Magnolia CMS, integrating our client's external pricing APIs with our CMS and updating our content dynamically
• Worked with more senior and junior developers alike in code review and technical design
• Direct communication with clients to ensure we understood their technical needs and provided the best solution

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Directly provided mentoring and code review to junior developers, helping to elevate their technical skills and code quality
• Assisted in ideating and implementing a greenfield SaaS product meant to help small businesses manage their online reputation, written in Laravel
• Provided a standardized library of utility classes meant to be used across our various services
• Implemented internal tooling in Express, React, and websockets to allow our customer service teams to manage call availability and screen automated tickets

• Managed a small team of 2-5 developers in planning and programming client web solutions
• Implemented a custom routing and validation layer in PHP built on top of Aura Router
• Collaborated with clients to understand and translate technical aims into software solutions

• Updated and maintained a custom, home-grown CMS written in PHP
• Built customer websites from scratch using PHP, jQuery, and CSS