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Los Angeles, Us

We built a website on Firebase with React and Tailwind to help patients and intended parents find discounts, grants, and financing options for their egg freezing, IVF, and surrogacy journeys, as well as understand the costs for all three. We also built HIPAA-BAA-compliant partner and member portals for our IVF Success Program in Go, React, and Tailwind, using Terraform to manage our Google Cloud resources. We implemented integrations with Stripe and Brex for payment processing, as well as Hubspot, ZenDesk, and Klaviyo for customer relationship management.* Implemented SOC 2 Type 2 compliance for all aspects of the platform.I was also responsible for maintaining our relationships with our financial partners and designing an in-house lending program before we hired our current Head of Operations.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Bread rebranded to Bread Financial in March 2022.Led the effort to retire the legacy loan accounting and checkout system. Also acted as a subject matter expert for the legacy system.

New York, Us

Acting as a technical lead and subject matter expert for Bread's legacy system. Helped new team members in the Production Support team learn how to support the legacy system. Currently leading the project to move from the legacy system to the new platform, released in 2020. Developed primarily in Go and React.

Developed software on a freelance basis on multiple contracts, to automate existing practices and enhance the productivity of my clients. I developed the software primarily in Scala and React. I also maintained a loan processing platform and collections system in Go.* Implemented a prototype for tracking freelancer availability and reservations on top of the Google Calendar API.* Delivered a system for aligning technical candidates with potential roles on top of the Bullhorn API.* Provided technical expertise, guidance, and multiple enhancements to a legacy loan accounting system.

New York, Us

As a member of the software engineering team, helped enhance all aspects of Bread's microservices architecture, including but not limited to:* Multi-term and 0% APR loan products, for prime and sub-prime borrowers.* Multiple Credit Tests for credit decisioning.* ACH file generation for payment collection.* Creation and aggregation of loan underwriting documents.* Customization of merchant checkout CSS.* Templatization of checkout-carts for merchant re-use.* Merchant credit-card settlement report.* Accounting of loans sold to debt facilities.I also led multiple engineering teams, which:* Enhanced our loan processing and credit decisioning software.* Migrated our anti-fraud system to an external vendor.* Provided an accounting-specific view of our loan data.* Integrated Collections with the Katabat platform.I acted as an interim product manager for our Finance, Capital Markets, Risk, Customer Service, Collections, and Legal departments, collecting product requirements and distributing tasks to engineering team members.I also ran the onboarding program for new engineers, and managed interns as part of handling our internship program. Coded in Go and JavaScript, including React.js. My experience is more heavily on the Go side than the JavaScript side.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

As a member of OnDeck's Core Team, I was responsible for learning how OnDeck amortized their small-business loan and LOC (line-of-credit) products, teaching it to other engineers, debugging and correcting errors in the loan-amortization calculations, and developing a second amortization calculation that formed the basis for delivering monthly statements. This second amortization calculation changed how OnDeck reported chargebacks. Also helped another engineer develop a validation tool to confirm and correct line-of-credit amortization calculations. Coded in Java.As a member of the LSP 2.0 (Loan Servicing Platform) Team, helped design and develop a new microservices architecture for the line-of-credit product, and verified its output against the LOC validation tool I helped implement. Coded in Java and Scala.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Worked with a team to develop a web-based script development environment using Java on the Play! web framework, storing scripts in CouchBase. The scripts are based on the Groovy programming language, and enhanced to pull data from sources external to LinkedIn. Maintained an administrative tool used to deploy those scripts, which was written in Scala on the Play! framework. Also enhanced and maintained the system used to run those scripts, written in Java, known as GaaP (Gateway as a Platform).Lead engineer in a team which developed a prototype used to scrape career opportunities from client websites and post them to LinkedIn using the GaaP system. Built a reactive Scala web application on the Play! framework to retrieve the fetched jobs from the GaaP system, perform post-processing with data from internal and external REST services, and post to the LinkedIn Jobs API. Used the Anorm Scala API to read and write to an Oracle database.Enhanced the GaaP HTTP Proxy, written in Java. Added monitoring via JMX and metrics for the amount of data transferred both inbound and outbound, per calling service and outbound domain. Worked with internal customer and security teams to define a plan for making the GaaP Proxy the outbound proxy for all services at LinkedIn.Modified client-facing JSPs and JavaScript on the LinkedIn site to reflect changes to the address-book import process as a result of introducing the GaaP platform. Wrote Selenium tests to demonstrate correctness.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Responsible for designing and prototyping a new data storage format in HBase for performancecomparison of financial time-series data against the FactSet custom financial time-series database. Used Thrift to connect a C++ client to a Java server, and developed a simple query planner for the Java server to query HBase to reduce database roundtrips. Developed a data transfer mechanism from existing FactSet custom databases to HBase using C++, Perl, Java, ANTLR, and Map/Reduce.Managed a team of six engineers in the Quantitative Applications group to enhance and maintainFactSet's Alpha Testing, Portfolio Simulation, and Screen Iterator products, all written in C++. Worked with three Product Developers over two offices to prioritize both major projects and minor enhancements for those applications. Also initiated a side project to prototype a performance improvement of Alpha Testing via Map/Reduce on HBase. Designed the data layout, used ANTLR to translate a custom FactSet query language to Java code running on a Java server, connected to a C++ client via Thrift, and used Perl, Java, and Map/Reduce to convert and load the raw data into HBase.Designed, developed, launched, and enhanced PA Reconciliation, a C++ application designed to find and report discrepancies in client data. These reports are stored in a custom FactSet database, e-mailed as Excel spreadsheets overnight, and viewed in the FactSet Portfolio Viewer product. PA Reconciliation uses existing infrastructure to compute, store, and fetch the reports, displaying the results in a custom query and display language designed for business users. Also maintained and enhanced a C++ parser that collects financial trades directly from the Advent Axys / APX accounting system. The parser aggregates the data into a report for storage in custom databases for clients. Coded preprocessors for client transactions in Perl using basic string manipulation.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Coded a launching mechanism and test suite in C for a prototype system that virtualized Microsoft Windows applications and streamed them across a local network. Developed a server-side web interface for managing the virtualized applications in Java / JSP, as well as completing an installation package in NSIS. Researched existing patents for inventions similar to the virtualization system. Modified the Smart Help system (from IBM Extreme Blue) to manage problem tickets asynchronously, which better modeled IBM's existing support system.● Received a First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award for co-inventing U.S. Patent 7,506,338: “Method and Apparatus for Simplifying the Deployment and Serviceability of Commercial Software Environments.”● Co-author of paper “PDS: A Virtual Execution Environment for Software Deployment,” published in VEE '05: The First ACM/USENIX International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Designed and developed a Lotus Instant Messaging (Sametime) client in Java as part of an on-line help and support system integrated into IBM WebSphere Studio, named SmartHelp. Implemented the user interface for the technical support representatives as an Eclipse plug-in. Also helped code the web services interface using Apache Axis.

Designed and developed an internal web application for managing employees, sales, and commissions in a telecommunication sales agency. Coded the application in Java and JSP to run on Apache Tomcat and store the data in MySQL.

Developed web applications to be used internally and externally by GE Power Systems. Coded the applications in Java and JSP on an internal platform similar to J2EE. The applications interfaced with an Oracle 8i database and LDAP, and delivered reports via the web or e-mail in XHTML, RTF, and Excel. Maintained a business relationship with other GE Power Systems employees to determine how an application will function as well as drafting user specifications and requirements.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

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