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Key Accomplishments:● Accelerated development iteration and enabled practical TDD by decreasing PHP test suite run time by ~65% while simultaneously simplifying the underlying code, removing dependencies (MonkeyPatch), and establishing full application layer isolation from the data layer during test.● Pioneered a cross-department work shadowing mentorship program to pair the most technically inclined customer support staff with engineers and expose them to code, enabling them to serve customers at a greater depth, creating new career path opportunities for interested individuals, and exposing for the company a unique low-risk talent source for junior software engineers and product managers.● Enriched team performance by providing code review mentorship, especially around code simplicity, code maintainability, and tactical use of design patterns and PHP language features.● Reduced false negatives in DataDog error monitoring by ~90% by identifying and properly differentiating Proposify’s email provider webhook responses, leading to multiple bug fixes and greater potential for email interaction insights.● Led technical design, implementation, and post-deployment monitoring on Proposify’s Gong integration, the company’s first new integration during my tenure.● Promoted team culture efforts of celebrating engineering excellence and continuing education by refining techniques for logging and sharing continuing education goals and activities within the team, by being the most active in logging and sharing my own continuing education activities, and by being the most active in producing blog posts that integrated learning summarizations and company-specific context for effective digestion of those concepts by the rest of the team.

Key Accomplishments:● Modernized banking user experience by building a BFF (Backend For Frontend) REST API service layer in Java to allow a new UI to interact easily with the existing legacy monolith.● Ensured confident collaboration between backend API developers and frontend developers by writing OpenAPI documentation, which acted as both a source of truth and long-term API design documentation.● Increased confidence in a new currency conversion microservice by adding unit tests, bug fixes, and missing behaviour that were present in the original legacy monolith.● Enabled efficient testing efforts by creating Postman API collections that were usable both by developers for tests during iterative development, and by QA for feature and regression testing.● Developed APIs in Java, including mapping from requirements and legacy inputs, new endpointcreation, WSDL integration, unit test creation, and configuration.

Key Accomplishments:● Improved trade show readiness of a custom body scanning device by making its C++ user interface more visually appealing● Reduced page latency by finding a critical bottleneck in the page’s code and redesigning its interaction with the database.● Increased site reliability across new and established features by fixing bugs and implementing unit tests in Ruby.● Increased code confidence within the team by prompting developers to inhabit a mentorship mindset while discussing features, and by providing code review on those features.