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- Created a Rollup.js plugin for succinctly bundling Stimulus.js controllers - Used Ava to test JS projects - Built command line tool for managing dnsmasq records to wild-card development subdomains - Developed a Docker Compose service to allow multiple Docker-based web services to share port 80/443 and have friendly subdomains in development - Refactored fantasy football web app to use Bootstrap and Postgres - Modernized fantasy football web app to use Silex, AngularJS, and Foundation - Utilized PHPUnit and Travis CI to test homegrown libraries - Built a PHP/MySQL based web site to automate the management of fantasy football and NASCAR leagues - Created a multi-display Java application to provide real-time tracking of fantasy NASCAR results

- Worked closely with co-founders to build a company from an idea into a company actively serving schools and students - Built a mobile-friendly Vue.js app for administering surveys to students, parents, and teachers - Contributed to designing and building a PHP/Postgres application for managing surveys and viewing survey results and reports - Built a Google Chrome extension in JavaScript to notify students and teachers of a pending survey - Deployed Heroku environment for managing our core production services - Created Docker Swarm for managing some of our ancillary production services - Collaborated with customers to improve product offerings and help resolve issues - Created a simple service and API for hosting our proprietary JavaScript/CSS front-end libraries and other static assets - Developed a survey question creation feature using Vue.js - Performed kind, thorough code reviews on a regular basis - Wrote automated tests, especially around important functionality and logic - Employed Heroku CI to automate running tests upon a push to GitHub - Implemented continuous deployment using GitHub Actions and Heroku pipelines

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Built a job queue to meet the specific needs of company’s single-tenancy software architecture; built using PHP, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Supervisord - Designed and developed a web application to eliminate the need for a system administrator, developer, and data specialist to be involved in setting up new clients (PHP, Angular.js) - Automated deployment of applications to reduce the amount of time and opportunity for error of developers logging in to servers to deploy - Refactored single-tenancy PHP application to support multiple tenants within a single codebase - Expanded co-located and AWS infrastructure; used Ansible for configuration management - Owned technical aspects of attendance module in PHP/PostgreSQL app - Worked with state auditor to implement new attendance compliance reports - Maintained C++ applications used to aggregate data - Contributed to attendance, discipline, assessments, and other student information system modules - Debugged production issues using server logs, app logs, New Relic, and Datadog - Migrated all of company’s codebases from Bazaar to GitHub - Built monitoring tools for backups and uptime of each client’s app instance - Advocated for engineers to have the power and responsibility to own their changes from pre-development through post-deployment - Replied to support tickets regarding bug reports and enhancement requests - Wrote tests using PHPUnit and implemented continuous integration with Travis CI - Mentored and collaborated with both in-office and off-site engineers - Performed kind, thorough code reviews - Responded to pages and emergency calls, promptly resolving production issues - Collaborated with design and product management to converge on understanding of user needs - Created comprehensive development environment using Vagrant

- Architected design of and led development team in the implementation of major changes to PHP/MySQL application - Restructured development environment to more closely resemble QA/production environments - Automated development environment setup using Perl and bash scripts - Modernized framework, including new class organization, improved class loader, strengthened MVC support, and furthered unit testing - Improved report generation performance while correcting report accuracy issues and ease of interpretation - Optimized data migration and import scripts

Bs, Computer Science

Computer & Information Systems