Karen P. Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Remote

Remote

Remote

Backend developer working with Scala microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, MongoDB, DynamoDb, Fastly to provide APIs for large scale client facing applications in web and mobile.

Remote - Santa Monica, Ca

Hitwise is a division of Connexity Inc.- Collaborated across distributed teams to enhance consumer facing webapps to bring better data visualization and retail analytics to customers.- Architected, documented, and implemented solutions to adapt and create new data pipelines.- Worked closely with product stakeholders to bring their vision to light.Project Examples:* Project Speed Racer - Rebuilt a data pipeline to adapt to increased data ingestion, which reduced process times from 5-7 hours to just under 30 min. Technologies: Java 8, SpringBoot 2, Maven, Snowflake, Airflow, Python* Kormoran 2.0 - Revamped an outdated data ingestion process to a more modern approach, improving the time from 17 hours to under 10 minutes to generate a report. Technologies: Java 8, SpringBoot 2, Maven, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Bash, Python* RIO - Spearheaded a project to automate manual processes to bring in retail data from 3rd party APIs for integration into our pipeline for analytic reporting. Technologies: Java 8, SpringBoot 2, Maven, Snowflake, Airflow, Python* AV Report Tracker - Developed a simple webservice/UI to coalesce all the info into one place to improve the ability for developers/service desk operators to track down issues on generated reports used by clients, which reduced time spent investigating from hours to minutes. Technologies: Javascript, Bootstrap, Thymeleaf, HTML, CSS, Java 8, SpringBoot 2, Maven* Portal Revamp - Prototyped and ported components in an outdated AngularJS webapp to Vue.js without rewriting the full application. Technologies: AngularJS, Vue.js, jQuery, HTML, CSS

Remote - Santa Monica, Ca

- Maintained and created REST webservices to support client-facing webapps and internal tools.- Developed Cucumber BDD tests for many projects to thoroughly test our systems.- Implemented Java batch jobs to curate personalized daily shopping alert emails based on customer shopping preferences.- Managed and onboarded top 1000 retailers for an online shopping comparison browser extension.- Supported and enhanced existing Selenium automated test suite coverage by 30%.Project Examples:* Chat History Viewer - Designed a simple webapp to search and archive chat history backed by an Elastic Search indexer. Technologies: Scala, Spray Framework, Java, Springboot, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS* Data Visualization Tool - Prototyped an interactive visualization map of various merchant statistics across the US. Technologies: jQuery, Node.js, Highcharts, D3.js

Aided various students in programming and debugging in Java. Graded lab reports and assignments.

Created, modified, and tested Adobe Flash animations for use as visual aid in psychology research conducted by a faculty member in the Psychology Department.