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Completed an intern project utilizing Django and TypeScript to simplify jobseeker onboarding, enhancing recruiter interview efficiency.Worked closely with Product Managers and Design teams to optimize the user interface, ensuring a superior user experience.Built robust and scalable APIs with Django Rest Framework and React Query, ensuring seamless data integration and retrieval.

Simplified jobseeker onboarding by developing a Python/Django API and React frontend, significantly enhancing recruiter interview efficiency.Leveraged Django Rest Framework, React Query, TypeScript, custom component libraries, Datadog, and Sentry to create robust and scalable applications.Developed and executed unit and integration tests in Python (Django) and JavaScript (React/TypeScript) to ensure high code quality and performance.Delivered a presentation on micro frontend frameworks to Product Managers, demonstrating their potential for front-end development improvements.Integrated a third-party vendor into our repository to streamline the jobseeker application process, enhancing user experience.Contributed to the Fair Chance initiative, encouraging previously incarcerated individuals to apply for jobs, now highlighted across Indeed job postings where applicable.Improved team processes by writing comprehensive documentation, adding logging to multiple repositories, and verifying 64-bit capabilities across all team repositories.

Documented microscopic identification descriptions for specimens, wrote comprehensive plant descriptions for reference materials.Conducted research on plant anatomy using databases such as PubMed and Natural Medicine.Collected, harvested, pressed, and shipped plants to analysis laboratories, ensuring precise and accurate data handling.