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Burbank, Ca, Us

Building internal desktop and web apps to support technical directors and engineers across dozens of Disney and Marvel projects.

Culver City, California, Us

Promoted into technical lead to rearchitect a Python workflow engine using Celery which builds, maintains, and audits 10k+ native mobile apps across both iOS and Android platforms. Leveraged both cloud and on-site hardware to reduce app build time by up to 4x and developed a custom alerting framework to track app build status at scale.- Built a product backlog and solicited frequent feedback from stakeholders to quicklydevelop a Python + Django web application with AWS microservices.- Managed 5 engineers across 3 different teams, ranging from associate to senior, while supporting their continued career progression towards several promotions.- Ensured that my team regularly synced with our internal customers so that we could execute critical updates en masse for thousands of our restaurant partners.- Led both team and department-level planning events using a quarterly Agile framework; utilized TIES and relative-sizing to ensure code quality did not suffer from tight deadlines.- Facilitated 120+ interviews; completed code pairing, system design, relationships, and values sections of the interview process.- Co-lead a tiger team to rapidly iterate on and streamline interviewing process, resulting in double the number of hires quarter-over-quarter.

Culver City, California, Us

Rewrote and updated core system functionality to use updated technologies and coding standards. Applied unit testing, Github automation, containerization, and written documentation to improve reliability and maintainability of a monolithic web app.- Migrated a custom-built legacy search system into ElasticSearch, which resulted in 3x faster migrations and a 4x reduction in memory consumption.- Dockerized environments for building native, templated iOS and Android app. This substantially reduced onboarding time for new developers, and allowed some key build steps to execute up to 4 times faster.- Configured automated tests and CI/CD for a legacy project using Github Actions, enabling weekly deploys and safer updates to existing workflows.

Culver City, California, Us

Developed, maintained, and tested API endpoints for a food ordering platform that processes 200k+ orders per day. Tech stack was built on the Python Bottle framework, with a Redis-based task queue and infrastructure in AWS.- Identified a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the application and worked with security to scope, prioritize, and resolve the issue.- Designed and implemented an A/B testing system to route users between the current ordering web app and an updated React app. Paired closely with the QA and product teams to assess conversion metrics and ensure a smooth rollout.- Participated in Github code reviews, unit testing, and documenting to ensure a consistent level of code quality.- Regularly collaborated with QA, design, and frontend teams to ensure fast turnaround and quality results.

Served as primary contact and technical team lead consulting for multiple Python and Javascript web apps. Positive feedback from clients led to a contract extension and additional projects.- Managed a team of 4 developers to build an online tool for collecting assessments from top athletes and transforming the data into custom PDF reports. (Python Django, VueJS)- Built an admin portal for collecting monthly fitness center metrics and generating reports with the data. Actively contributed to decisions around database architecture and interface design. (Python Django, AngularJS)- Regularly met with clients to define requirements, set developer expectations, and iterate based on feedback. Initial contract was extended to include subsequent projects based on the client's satisfaction with my initial work.

Worked as a consultation for web applications, with projects ranging from 3-12 months and including technologies like Java, Python, Javascript, React, C#, PHP and Wordpress. - Served as the sole developer for a web interface to control a system that tracks, calibrates, and pumps radioactive solutions through a series of connected hardware component. (Python Flask)- Worked as part of a team merging two high-traffic web properties owned by a client into a single unified system with blogging, comments, e-commerce, and a responsive user interface. (PHP, Java, JS, CSS)- Contributed to TechEmpower's open source Framework Benchmark project by writing additional test cases and reviewing community contributions on Github.

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Created mobile app and web interface to help emergency communications dispatchers view and sign up for overtime shifts using Apache Cordova and AngularJS.

Developed web application that provides micro-surveys to collect and aggregate customer feedback for business owners.

Built application for geo-referencing and annotating historic maps using Ruby on Rails and Javascript. Integrated with DBpedia, Google Maps, and Google Earth APIs.