Justin Mendonca Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

• Designed and implemented a Vue.js/TypeScript application seamlessly integrated into the existing Online Banking platform. Designed dynamic user prompts and interactions to enhance user engagement and encourage.
• Led a comprehensive backend overhaul for a greenfield project, rewriting core business logic in Python and orchestrating the migration of the database to a new schema, optimizing data structures and improving overall.
• Developed.NET/C# endpoints, controllers, and middleware functions for institutional API layer, leveraging object-oriented principles to scale the API as business needs grew over time
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and provided technical leadership in API design discussions, resulting in a well-structured and maintainable codebase
• Wrote unit and integration tests for each feature developed, maintaining 100% test coverage in order to avoid regression in current features and improve application scalability
• Implemented Docker containers to streamline the deployment process of a code repository, resulting in enhanced scalability, reproducibility, and portability of the application stack while reducing deployment time by 30%

• A developer tool used to monitor and gather build data to optimize DevOps efficiency through visualization of metadata
• Integrated TypeScript to create custom reusable interfaces to facilitate early error detection and enhance code readability and predictability through strict typing and ensuring the scalability of the application.
• Delivered improved user experience by removing unnecessary external libraries and minimizing the application's bundle size, leading to an average load time of 1.22 seconds
• Constructed a Node.js server with Express to handle concurrent HTTP requests, applying the front controller design pattern to reduce code redundancy and expedite application development
• Implemented SQL database with ORM to store relational repository metadata, ensuring consistent and durable transactions while handling concurrent connections from multiple clients
• Enhanced software reliability and maintainability by increasing backend test coverage to 100% using Jest and Supertest

• Developing websites, scripts, and statistical models to further institutional research goals
• Wrote custom scripts using Python to automate the cleaning and entry of participant data, reducing data entry time by 85%
• Utilized R to develop scripts that were used to execute hierarchical linear regression analyses
• Developed website for a grant using a CMS based on a web scripting language and framework (PHP) & SQL

Master Of Science - Ms

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

Activities and Societies: Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a 4.0 cumulative GPA