Movin' data around for the US Census.

Founded and built the Data department in November 2022, scaling the team to 5 members within a year.Designed and developed the Maroon's data visualization repository, optimizing for data transparency and usability, that allowed dynamic JavaScript visuals to be served on the paper's website via iframes.Served as the primary data editor, ensuring accuracy and quality in all visual and data-centric content.Created cloud-hosted, daily web scraping and data visualization applications with automatic updating that analyzed and cleaned data published by the University of Chicago Police Department.Left The Chicago Maroon after graduating from the CAPP master's program.

Maintained and added to the Golang and GCP infrastructure that allowed internal and external bioinformaticians to run Nextflow jobs through our service at both the web application and CLI levels.Strategically retrofitted the Nextflow job PostgreSQL tables, leveraging singular primary key relationships to enhance tracking of the inheritance of previously prototyped Nextflow jobs, a move that significantly improved our data management capabilities.Managed the server-side strategy for authorization on the web application that was required for further application release beyond our initial customer base.Left Form Bio to pursue a two-year, full-time master's program at the University of Chicago.

Investigated and wrote technical requirements for user stories given to engineering by the product team. Built and maintained several subject-domain-specific gRPC microservices and the full-stack orchestrator layer centered around financial projections and competitor product matching by adding new features, designing table structures, scoping tickets, and adding end-to-end tests.

Maintained and improved the distributed system serving as the upstream data source for BlackLocus's data science, application, and recommendation teams by expanding features and test coverage for headless browsers, adjusting various EC2 configurations, and modifying SNS MySQL feeder queries.Redesigned the architecture of an internal Golang financial application to increase test coverage from below 50% to over 90%.

Managed a team of 2 software engineers and 1 quality assurance engineer. Played major roles in sourcing and hiring engineering talent, planning their workloads, and maintaining their success at the company. Served as a technical resource for the product team, ensuring the full scope of technical requirements were known before tasks were created.Acted as Scrum Master for the engineering team by making sure user stories were fully thought out, all requirements were set before tasks were passed on to the engineering team, and any external blockers preventing the team from accomplishing their goals were cleared.Designed and built a dynamic notification system that allowed for the intuitive toggling of email, SMS, and internal notifications, in addition to multiple other end-to-end application features.

Managed, coached, and assisted in the hiring of 2 interns on the software engineering team.Architected and built the front-end of a novel D3.js whiteboard, the core product of the company's business model, enabling complete event playback via Redis, video streaming through WebRTC, and live chat and whiteboard interactions via WebSockets. This product allowed Upswing to pivot away from a third-party Flash service and gain access to previously unavailable in-session data.

Worked as the only software engineer at Upswing, other than the CTO, for 15 months.Established core front-end design philosophies for the application by creating cohesive owner and admin panels, developing CSS templates for onboarded schools, and standardizing front-end components.

Worked on a team of nine engineers to recreate a legacy process control system that utilized Red Hat AMQ to automate rail brakes and switches by leading UI/UX discussions, enhancing Java components with new functionality and unit tests, and expanding the features of the orchestrating Grails service.Functioned as the technical subject matter expert on the traveling rail yard best practices team at various rail yards throughout the western United States, reducing the need for senior developers to communicate directly with rail yards to solve application installation and usage issues.

Led development, created user stories, and gathered yardmaster input for a Grails and MongoDB application that replaced an Excel spreadsheet previously passed between shifts at the highest-trafficked rail yards.

Computationally processed genomic and proteomic data. Edited lab-related manuscripts, journal submissions, NSF grants, classroom syllabuses, etc. Researched, investigated, and vetted computational tools prior to their potential adoption into the lab's metagenomic data processing pipeline.