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• Deployed custom Grafana dashboards based on user-provided information to visualize tailored cluster metrics, empowering developers with real-time and actionable updates on cluster health, improving monitoring.
• Designed middleware to write tailored configurations for Prometheus and Grafana containers and stored those configuration files within a Docker volume, facilitating rapid spin-up from saved files and providing users.
• Utilized React and the MUI DataGrid to compose responsive layouts for visualized metrics and user data while aligning with Docker Desktop’s theme, leading to the successful publication of the first Kafka monitoring.
• Enforced TypeScript fullstack with 97% coverage to improve code predictability and reduce bugs at compile time.
• Created an optimized time-series relational database with PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB to effectively manage time-stamped metrics data, capturing and aggregating cluster metrics for streamlined historical data analysis.
• Achieved ~20% reduction in total development time by working around the Docker Desktop Extension SDK’s hot module reloading limitations.

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

• Developed LC/MS/MS methods to quantitate metabolite concentrations in biological matrices.
• Executed high-throughput analysis of samples via LC/MS/MS for commercial and research clients, providing rapid and actionable data to support client development pipelines.
• Spearheaded effort to automate rote laboratory procedures by writing a suite of Python scripts and designing custom labware specifications as JSON, reducing human error and increasing efficiency of high-throughput.
• Troubleshooted mechanical issues with instrumentation as they arose in order to reduce downtime.

• Employed Neo4j to create a graph-powered recommendation engine to provide users with tailored suggestions based on profile details.
• Utilized Zustand to achieve simple and lightweight global state management with minimal boilerplate, reducing developer ramp up time.
• Integrated and automated end-to-end testing using Cypress, enhancing code extensibility and enabling easier refactoring.

• Enhanced configurability of base map markers through integrating the Google Maps API with React to render custom components as markers, providing an intuitive and predictable user experience.
• Created a PostgreSQL database and designed the schema to store data in a relational and ACID-compliant manner, ensuring durability and consistency of user data while enabling concurrent connections between multiple.

• Implemented Passport.js alongside Express.js to build authentication middleware, providing a simple and user-friendly authentication experience and persisting user authorization status between visits via cookies.

• Built Express.js server to efficiently handle HTTP requests to a myriad of RESTful endpoints based on the middleware design pattern, using modularization to construct a discernible chain of responsibility of incoming.
• Modeled and constructed a MongoDB database using Mongoose to enforce adherence to strict schemas in order to leverage denormalization to improve the performance of a read/write-heavy application which required data to.
• Created reusable functional components by leveraging React’s modular design pattern, and utilized various React hooks to optimize rendering and re-rendering performance using React's Virtual DOM.
• Employed client-side routing with React Router and conditional rendering to create a single page application, reducing the total number of network requests.
• Used Webpack for Hot Module Replacement to speed up development process, and for bundling JavaScript, HTML, CSS and other static assets into minified, uglified files for faster load time.

• Developed HPLC methods to resolve and quantitate complex APIs.
• Developed analytical methods for use during in vivo toxicological studies.
• Utilized Empower™ Software to prepare sample runs, quantitate data, and report results efficiently and cleanly.
• Analyzed HPLC data to inform drug development process, leading to a significant reduction inimpurities and allowing for higher throughput analysis; presented findings to both chemists in lab and upper-level executives.
• Performed regular and irregular maintenance of analytical instrumentation as needed, as well asinterfaced with service providers to coordinate third-party maintenance.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Executed targeted LC/MS/MS analysis of commercial samples in tandem with a team of scientists in order to produce deliverables before projected deadlines.
• Ran high-throughput LC/MS/MS assays using both liquid-liquid and solid-phase extractions, automation, radiolabeled internal standards, and QCs to ensure consistent sample preparation as well as accurate and precise.
• Employed Analyst® Software to prepare batch files, carry out instrument maintenance, and quantitate results.
• Performed preventative/lab maintenance, implemented SOPs, and assisted with sample preparation for colleagues’ projects.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Implemented quality control procedures on an active commercial product in global health.
• Utilized Microsoft Excel to organize QC databases; used EP Evaluator to conduct method comparisons, limit-of-detection studies, and precision studies.
• Collaborated with quality assurance personnel to execute NCRs, PCOs, and CAPAs.

Asheville, North Carolina Area

• Co-designed a study investigating the effects of over-the-counter medications (OTCs) on human glucuronidative capacity.
• Developed a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry method capable of quantifying OTCs in human urine for the purposes of researching their effect on episodic metabolic deficiency.
• Developed novel solid phase extraction method for LC/MS/MS analysis, improving detection capabilities and sample analysis.
• Presented this ongoing research at the Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society.
• In collaboration with Harvard University, analyzed a dataset of over 250 individuals’ urinary metabolites to examine correlations between environmental factors and episodic metabolic deficiency.
• Wrote and received funding for a research grant to purchase supplies and to research inhibition by OTCs to determine their role in metabolic deficiency.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Performed characterization, purification, and separation using analytical and preparative high-performance liquid chromatography and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry for leading drug discovery pipeline.
• Synthesized, purified, and assayed acylated peptides and characterized potency and efficacy fortreatment of type II diabetes and obesity using an in vitro cell-based cAMP accumulation assay.
• Created and organized an easily-searchable database of over 1,500 peptides in storage to facilitate ease of location and efficient distribution to biologists.
• Repaired a broken degasser module on an analytical HPLC to restore functionality to companyinstrumentation.