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Saint Louis, MO, US

• Led a team of four engineers and one intern, planning sprints, providing technical guidance, and training.
• Created a load testing suite using the Locust Python framework, and sed it to iteratively analyze & increase resource allocation to make performance tweaks until the API was able to handle up to 200 requests per second.
• Audited entire GraphQL API codebase, refactoring, fixing bugs, and making improvements to ensure the company’s code quality standards, testing, and scanning standards were met.
• Overhauled the Python Pytest unit & integration testing suite by creating template classes and reusable fixtures to simplify mocking of infrastructure dependencies, to improve usability & maintainability of the testing.
• Implemented team coding style & standards based on Google’s style guide which included code formatting, static code analysis (linter & type checker), and development best practices to help drive better habits and code.

Saint Louis, MO, US

• Integrated Softheon webhooks to drive cache refreshes for an event-driven subsystem which utilized a MongoDB cache to temporarily store pending payments which would be used to drive customer transparency features.
• Created a CI/CD pipeline in GitLab which built and pushed a Docker image to Artifactory, and deployed to a Kubernetes pod to automate and simplify the deployment process among DEV, TEST, and PROD environments.
• Created an API smoke testing framework which parsed a Postman collection of GraphQL queries/mutations to create tests, run them, and log a summary of results and their responses, which helped automate functionality.
• Created an API Key authorization layer for all queries/mutations, to control internal access and track client usage.
• Created integration script to automate retrieval of secrets stored in CyberArk Conjur as part of a GitLab pipeline.

New York, New York, US

• Overhauled Python-based OAuth authentication and session management via backend monolith, migrating to serverless authentication via NextAuth (JavaScript) using AWS Cognito for identity management & SSO support.
• Built infrastructure in React (TypeScript) to integrate Twilio Segment client-side tracking in Chrome Extension to allow monitoring of usage statistics and habits for 1000+ monthly users, to better understand usage.
• Led effort to build Python service layer to allow international payments to be automated via Stripe REST API, and owned entire process of migrating 80+ customer accounts to ensure payments were received.
• Architected and built data layer, service layer, and RESTful API in Python backend to surface product and merchant exclusion information, and integrated into React (TypeScript) frontend to show this information per link.
• Created PostgreSQL & Snowflake data visualization dashboards in Looker to (1) monitor and fix 200+ payments issues and (2) surface and highlight aggregate link auction information across the platform.
• Built Javascript infrastructure which leverage Phyllo API to collect analytics data at time of signup and every month for the top 500 most active creator profiles (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram).

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, US

• Managed 6 direct reports throughout the entire performance cycle, alongside technical responsibilities.
• Led effort to write and rollout Agile best practices guide to improve Scrum/Agile practices company-wide.
• Architected and built a Flask (Python) web app dashboard with a custom Bootstrap (HTML/CSS) interface and a MongoDB (NoSQL) database to conveniently display regression test suite results for 10+ different compilers..

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, US

• Served as Scrum Master for 2 teams during organization-wide effort to transition from waterfall to Scrum/Agile, working closely with the product owner to measure meaningful metrics and optimize workflows and practices.
• Developed proof of concept in ALGOL to enable support for code compatibility & performance improvements at run-time, with a focus on providing measurable internal data to demonstrate potential impact and effectiveness.
• Built support for 3 new loop control structures in tool use to programmatically generate dynamic compiler test cases.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, US

• Built client-requested feature to translate payload data sent via Telnet from hexadecimal to EBCDIC representation, to help client’s debugging efforts.
• Fixed a critical integer overflow bug in system metering software which affected our ability to properly bill customers.
• Led an effort to design, prototype, and deploy a system for monitoring temperatures around the office, which consisted of Arduino device clients communicating with a Raspberry Pi server via MQTT, with a Grafana GUI to.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, US

• Wrote extensive documentation for proprietary build tools written in Visual Basic, to aid in modernization and improvement.
• Fixed bugs and supported development efforts surrounding print support and internal dump/log analysis tooling.

Master Of Science - Ms, Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science