Platform Infrastructure

• Owned the development of new features for Meraki’s cloud managed IT dashboard specific to the “MS” Switch product line on a team of 5+ engineers with projects spanning 3 - 6 months.• Collaborated with a team of other senior engineers across the organization to gameplan the safe and iterative mitigatation of 12 years of technical debt and Rails antipatterns.• Lobbied for company-wide alignment around code formatting before building a separate service to enforce a Meraki Ruby Style Guide within the monolith via a practical, stepwise solution.• Mentored colleagues and interns on Rails best practices and proficiency with other languages.

• Owned the development of new features for Meraki’s cloud managed IT dashboard specific to the “MS” Switch product line on a team of 5+ engineers with projects spanning 3 - 6 months.• Collaborated with a team of other senior engineers across the organization to gameplan the safe and iterative mitigatation of 12 years of technical debt and Rails antipatterns.• Lobbied for company-wide alignment around code formatting before building a separate service to enforce a Meraki Ruby Style Guide within the monolith via a practical, stepwise solution.• Mentored colleagues and interns on Rails best practices and proficiency with other languages.

• Defined guiding principles for the engineering organization, emphasizing a product-first approach.• Re-architected the outdated Ruby on Rails web application with a focus on simplifying data models, introducing full test coverage, and maximizing flexibility.• Spearheaded recruitment of software engineers and product leadership.• Introduced application monitoring, analytics tracking, and continuous deployment to the web app.• Integrated CoBuy core business services with the Salesforce CRM platform.

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• Collaborated with other engineering leaders weekly to ensure technical cohesion of architectural decisions between consumer-facing products and back-of-house requirements.• Managed the professional development of 2 engineers on a consumer-facing product team.• Worked closely with product managers and designers to identify potential products, estimate technical effort, and schedule a backlog of engineering work to validate and build new features.

• Led the sole consumer-facing, full-stack engineering team with up to 5 engineers.• Navigated out from heavy technical debt after making the case to key stakeholders for greater technical flexibility and agility amidst business ambiguity.• Expanded engineering recruitment efforts to hire 10+ new engineers, requiring coordination with internal recruitment alongside engineering peers and leadership.

• Contributed as a full stack engineer and member of 3 agile product teams over 15 months, each comprised of 2-4 engineers and operating within 1-2 week sprint cycles.• Identified opportunities to refactor and improve in-house frameworks widely recognized as illegible or defunct and worked with engineering leads to prioritize the highest-value of these initiatives.

• Developed new features in an agile environment using Ruby on Rails, HTML, Haml, CSS, Sass, Javascript, and jQuery• Utilized behavior driven development techniques to confidently integrate new features with the existing application before each incremental release• Addressed customer support requests for information and backend maintenance via the rails console using the ZenDesk platform• Completed multi-week sprints organized in the Jira agile tracker by Atlassian• Assembled custom UIImagePicker prototype in Xcode using objective-C for asynchronous photography within the Imfuna mobile inspection application

• Documented construction defects under senate bill (SB) 800 found in commercial and residential buildings with respect to the latest building codes and standards• Performed statistical analyses to determine damage origins using data gathered personally and by colleagues via visual inspections and destructive testing practices• Designed relational databases and composed scripts using FileMaker software and Python for the storage and manipulation of business data belonging to hundreds of company projects• Identified and executed business efficiency strategies using FileMaker software, reducing backend processing time by 60% for thousands of inspected, residential addresses

• Guided the physical and emotional development of over 100 UCLA students daily in a communal living space in accordance with the ORL mission statement• Collaborated with as many as 28 team members weekly toward the shared goal of creating effective living-learning communities• Conducted programs every 2 weeks appealing to student interests and ORL core values• Committed over 30 hours to the position each week while studying full-time as an undergraduate student• Sharpened communication and conflict mediation skills through regular interaction with residents