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Durham, North Carolina, Us

Instrumental in the development of new features and components for product redesigns, meticulously translating Figma designs into interactive and responsive UI/UX tools in Next.js, ensuring a seamless user experience across various devices, increasing user satisfaction.Own vital elements of the two primary customer-facing applications, including the timesheets, profile, and messaging features, building out user flows from beginning to end, making numerous UI/UX enhancements as well as utilizing GraphQL and Hasura for easy and efficient data access, which supports significant increases in customer product adoption.As an essential frontend engineer, I play a key role in discussions on strategy, planning, and the building of new features across teams to enhance the pivotal features of our products, scrutinizing details to improve user experience and engagement.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Completely rebuilt and modernized the Stanford Alumni website. Integrating React with Bootstrap on the frontend, I redesigned the UI, enhanced UX with seamless navigation and interactive features. By integrating Bootstrap's styles and functionality, I ensured consistency and responsiveness across all pages, ultimately elevating the website's overall appeal and usability.Adhering to strict parameters, I extensively researched different methods of accomplishing specific goals before deciding on the headless CMS Contentful for a simple and approachable back end, automating the process of adding data to the application and minimizing the amount of technical knowledge necessary to input data.Expanded the feature set by introducing sorting options and integrated advanced search capabilities for easier data access. These additions not only streamlined user flow but also contributed to a more engaging user experience with the application.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Constructed the frontend of a robust communication and outreach application using React with Redux, custom-tailored for prominent national and local democratic campaigns. This empowered seamless communication with millions of voters.Engineered the user interface for various critical components of the organization’s outreach product. This encompassed functionalities like contact list uploading, a campaign creation wizard, and comprehensive campaign monitoring and management features, fostering a user-friendly and efficient experience.Implemented extensive improvements to the existing codebase by integrating TypeScript to elevate code quality and readability, introducing static typing to JavaScript, ensuring enhanced maintainability and reliability for future development iterations.

San Francisco, California, Us

Taught the fundamentals of front end web development including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, to prepare students for a career in software engineering.Provided individual help with algorithms, data structures, and application building to support growth in problem solving and creativity.Mentor students on navigating the hiring process for a software engineer, to best prepare them for success.

Designed the front end in React with CSS modules, paying attention to information organization, logical page hierarchy, navigation, and responsiveness for an intuitive and engaging UXServed data with Express and MySQL on the back end, utilizing Node’s asynchronous requests for rapid load timeIntegrated NASA’s Near-Earth Objects RESTful web service, providing dynamic presentation of information, targeted searches, and browsing of the overall data-set

Scaled backend infrastructure of legacy code for music streaming service using Node and PostgreSQL, enabling access to millions of primary records at 1.43 ms per requestOptimized performance of database 100x, reducing query response time 33% using Redis with Least Frequently Used cachingIncreased requests per minute to 47.7k rpm using NGINX load balancing on multiple AWS EC2 instances to ensure high speed and reliability of service

Built a modular application with React, implementing a RESTful API to support CRUD operations on hundreds of records per pageStyled with CSS modules to minimize conflicts due to scope, providing for ease of editing through modularity and scalabilityHosted MySQL database on Google Cloud SQL to front end for fast performance, high availability, and security of dataDeployed with Docker on AWS EC2 instance, ensuring a lightweight, rapidly iterable service

Added new features to the Wordpress site through the incorporation of third party software, Wordpress plugins, and manually modifying default behavior with HTML, CSS, and PHPImproved security using WAF to prevent DDos attacks, disabling directory indexing and browsing, making backups regularly, and monitoring audit logs and files, successfully preventing malicious user activity

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Taught students front end web development, HTML, CSS and JavaScript Created individualized lesson plans based around students’ specific interests and goals, promoting autonomy in learning and maximizing efficacy in teaching

Rebuilt the front end using JavaScript, jQuery, and Sass with a responsive, mobile-first approach, improving SEO and creating new functionality such as bird sighting photo submission via mobileNavigated specific restrictions when building the back end, configuring PHP to work with ASP to add new features including HTML form submission and email confirmation Worked on an agile team of developers and designers, adhering to UI principles of usability, communication, and functionality in order to accommodate client’s needs

Oakland, California, Us

• Designed 8th grade science curriculum incorporating STEM elements to better engage girls in hands-on, inquiry-focused learning.• Advised students on issues centered around social-emotional behavior and learning, both individually and via group discussions, empowering them to be constructive members of their community.• Coached a winning robotics team through building, programming, and racing robots in the First Lego League Bay Area competition.• Mentored a team of girls in computer programming and software design along with Google employees, to create new software for Technovation - a tech entrepreneurship program for girls.• Organized and managed the 8th grade Invention Convention, comprising six weeks of designing, researching, and building science projects to teach girls real-world physics applications.

• Created high school biology curriculum, in coordination with state standards, to best accommodate different students’ learning styles and backgrounds, successfullypreparing them for state exams.• Developed a senior marine biology elective, incorporating elements of chemistry,physics, earth science, and taxonomy, utilizing and instilling an appreciation for, the natural environment of Alameda’s coastline.• Coordinated with counselors and parents to create unique lesson plans for students with special needs, individualized education plans, and English language learners, enabling all students to succeed.

• Photographed a variety of subjects for both print and online publications, using a wide array of equipment, effectively conveying information and telling visual stories.• Coordinated photo shoots with writers, editors, and subjects to best provide objective and accurate news.• Prepared, edited, and acquired photographs as a photo researcher at The New York Sun in the arts department, working with a team of people to create the look and feel of the paper.

• Filmed testimonies of genocide survivors in Rwanda for the purposes of preservation and education.• Built, maintained, repaired and managed computers and equipment, working with limited resources, language barriers, and minimal infrastructure, enabling our team to seamlessly continue working.• Developed office-wide standards and practices to manage filming, translating, transcribing and preserving of footage in order to best provide access to materials.

New York, Ny, Us

• Trained rhesus macaques to use various types of electronic laboratory equipment aiding in mapping the neural pathways involved in hand-eye coordination.• Designed, built, and tested laboratory equipment for use in training and data collection to both work effectively and accommodate ethical federal regulations.• Built and ran laboratory computers used in training and data collection, facilitating efficiency and accuracy of research.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Education

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Philosophy, Psychology

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