Melissa P. is a Senior Software Engineer at Hatch. She possess expertise in ruby on rails, javascript, databases, physics, apis and 32 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "Melissa is honest, smart, and gets-things-done. I was her direct manager for a 10 month period, and her work was vital to Papa's mission. Papa lost Melissa along with most of our developers in a very painful reduction-in-force. Prior to the layoffs, I was in-process to get Melissa promoted. If I were starting or growing a development team, I would want Melissa on it. Recent Accomplishments Melissa was pivotal in creating Papa's Member Self-Serve web application. The application allows members to log-in and schedule, view, confirm, reschedule, and cancel their own visits. This was a big step forward for our members and for our organization. Our CEO recently featured this tool in a video on LinkedIn showing its capabilities. Expertise * Melissa writes quality, easy-to-read Elixir code quickly. * She was able to leverage the Phoenix and Absinthe frameworks with ease. * Melissa helped us set up our LiveView approach with Tailwind and TailwindCSS. * Melissa did some impressive things with LiveView; allowing the actions of one user to instantly show up on a mentor's screen. * For a time, Melissa was Papa's leading expert on CSS, HTML, JS, and React. Quality * Melissa carried the torch for accessibility in our app. We aimed for WCAG 2.1 AA compliance and were able to exceed this because of her efforts. * Melissa set up our early metrics, monitoring, and alerting. * Melissa advocated for best practices in code reviews and engineering meetings. * She maintained high standards of quality code even during high-pressure, high-visibility deadlines. * She maintained a production-account for testing purposes. Using this, she identified and resolved an production issue that was causing significant drop-off Design * Melissa collaborated with our design team both in honing the designs and in making sure the final product fit the design specifications. * She also maintained our Storybook design collaboration tools Teamwork * Melissa is a trusted and highly regarded team member; working well with developers, management, testers, and designers * Melissa has given company-wide demos as well as led developer-community discussions on architectural decisions * Melissa spoke up firmly but respectfully on issues of quality, accessibility, process, and the needs of the team. She let me know early when she saw problems coming, and often had suggestions for how to solve them. * Melissa argued successfully for the use of Tailwind; convincing our staff engineer that it was the right way to go. We benefited greatly from that decision. * Melissa is also happy to do the less-glamorous work to help her team move forward.", "Melissa is abundant with great energy. She's awesome at manifesting this energy into hard work, clean code, new ideas, and a great sense of humor. It's great to work with her because you know things will be done well and with a smile. I'd be thrilled to work with her again!", and "I worked with Melissa on a group project. She is awesome to work with! She is very knowledgeable with back-end work (Ruby, Rails, Active Record, and APIs) and brings a lot to the table. I'd love to work with Melissa again."