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Boulder, Co, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

Alpharetta, Georgia, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Led a team of 3 engineers on Capital One Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) platform to disburse loans with ACH transfer instead of Marqeta Virtual Cards.Led a cross-functional team of 2 engineers 1 product and 1 designer using an agile approach to upgrade the core platform with a customer-focused self-service portal. Used React and Ruby on Rails (RoR) to create a proof of concept within 6 weeks.Mentored 2 Junior Software Developers by performing pull request reviews with Git, conducting pair-programming sessions, and hosting demos. Communicated effectively and spread knowledge and skills across the team.Maintained key production platforms reducing the number of Sentry errors by 50%, and fixing platform bugs.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Developed underwriting system, credit decisions as well as assisting on several components of the core backend platform for Capital One's Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) product, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable and reliable services in a complex, distributed environment.Spearheaded upgrade to platform to integrate with loan servicer Nelnet, and perform ACH loan disbursement for Guaranteed Rate.Monitored the production environment using tools such as Datadog, Sumologic, and Sentry. Performed on-call rotations with Pagerduty to guarantee the platform's availability and reliability.Continued learning and staying up-to-date with modern technologies and tools, such as Graphql, REST, Postgresql, Rails, React, and Datadog, to support API development.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Developed loan origination credit decision for BBVA using test-driven development (TDD) and collaborated with product to verify resulting in 0 service incidents related to the decision on launch.Maintained 6 production bank partners, performing maintenance tasks and business logic change requests.Assisted developing example partner to showcase platform. Contributed to logic for the eligibility and credit decisions, validating and testing policy with TDD.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Developed a scalable backend service for internal modeling and simulation project using micro-services in Java and Spring on team of 7 other engineers.Developed greenfield radar modeling and simulation matlab project with 4 other engineers.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Worked with 1 other system engineer to assemble project requirements for greenfield internal modeling and simulation project.Designed systems to model Radar, Satellites, and Optical sensors in Sysml with MagicDraw.Used Matlab to develop radar detection algorithm later used in a space systems radar.

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Offered tutoring services for the Math Center at UCCS.Tutored students in:- College Algebra through Calculus 3- Physics- Matlab- Various Engineering Courses

I retained a flexible position at Yphi inc. where I:- Set the company up with a help desk software- Assisted with customer support- Assisted with app testing- Helped troubleshoot flashing firmware onto routers

Middletown, Connecticut, Us

I worked as a Mechanical Engineering Intern where I:- Used basic GD&T to perform tolerance stack ups of assemblies- Edited BOMs, drawings and other documentation to enact Engineering Change Orders- Remastered drawings from TIF files to 3D Solidworks Models- Assimilated Budgetary quotes and specifications of parts