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Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

- Incorporated a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to providing free technology resources to churches and Christian ministries.- Implemented video processing on cloud servers and on bare metal in multiple data centers to transcribe and transcode videos.- Implemented transcript search with ElasticSearch.- Implemented website with Astro, SolidJS, Prisma, and Pothos.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Worked with React, Apollo, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, and Sidekiq.- Worked extensively with ElasticSearch.- Implemented an automations platform trigger editor with React Hook Form capable of editing deeply-nested data structures.- Implemented a Liquid template / Markdown template editor with combined syntax highlighting and autocomplete.- Prototyped AI/LLM Q&A in Rust using OpenAI Embeddings and an HNSW index.- Managed AWS infrastructure across multiple environments using Terraform.- Worked with systems designed to protect PII.- Migrated frontend build from Webpack to Vite.- Improved developer productivity with Nix, Navi, and direnv.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Worked with React, Redux, Electron, and TypeScript with legacy and modern features.- Worked with SQLite, SQLCipher, and Protobufs.- Worked with and designed for systems involving distributed state.- Implemented features with keyboard accessibility in mind.- Progressively ported features from Backbone and JavaScript to React/Redux and TypeScript.- Implemented virtualized, fuzzy-searchable emoji picker and inline emoji typeahead with fuzzy search.- Implemented emoji reactions for messages.- Implemented sticker creator for Signal Desktop utilizing native libraries for conversion and encryption.- Implemented protocols with low-level encryption primitives.- Refactored the application to support different addressing schemes.- Worked extensively in open source and worked directly with our users.

- Worked with React, Redux, Electron, and modern JavaScript (TypeScript, Flow, JSX).- Designed and implemented WebSocket communication layer with sagas.- Designed and implemented generic upload queueing system with sagas.- Designed and implemented SVG-based annotation tools.- Designed and implemented cross-window Redux store sync for Electron.- Designed and implemented complex, application-wide drag and drop functionality.- Mentored junior engineers and presented multiple talks about advanced concepts in JavaScript.- Hired as Senior Software Engineer. Promoted to Lead Software Engineer in March 2018.

- Worked with React, Redux, Vue, Angular, Node, PHP, MySQL, and Docker.- Used Flyway for database migrations across multiple client environments.- Designed and created a dashboard for monitoring doctors and their workloads across multiple facilities.- Prototyped Electron applications with native integrations.- Open-sourced a Babel plugin for automatic dependency injection in Angular.- Presented multiple tech talks on modern JavaScript and CSS best practices.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

- Worked with React, Redux, Dojo, and OpenSocial, continually integrating bleeding-edge web technologies.- Focused on modular, high-performance code capable of running in varying environments with varying content security policies.- Developed front-end request layer mimicking Dojo’s request API providing automatic reauthentication with no changes required to client code.- Automated builds and deployments with Jenkins.- Conducted technical interviews for intern and new hire candidates.- Contributed Less Compilation to OpenNTF JavaScript Aggregator.- Prototyped PostCSS / AutoPrefixer support for OpenNTF JavaScript Aggregator.

- Worked with the Dojo Toolkit and OpenLayers- Developed a prototype for an IBM Smarter Cities data visualization product

- Led a team of software developers and business people to create a mobile application development solution targeted at non-technical users.- Worked with an agile scrum process using Rational Team Concert to manage tasks.- Worked with several technologies including Java, JavaScript / Dojo, and HTML5.- Project features an intuitive drag and drop interface which allows non- technical users to create their own applications out of functional building blocks.- Presented technical project details to multiple IBM executives.

- Created stored procedures for Microsoft SQL Server to generate reports on various data collected from stores.- Created an internal web application to help corporate employees better manage their daily tasks. Application features on-call phone listing and a time-off request form where corporate employees could find coverage if they needed time off.

Played a leading role in overhauling the school's website and district policies website.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Associate Of Science (As), Computer Science