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San Diego, Ca, Us

• Designed and implemented automated background checks for new contractors. An event-driven integration with Checkr.• Designed and built a flexible in-app notification and templating system that allowed us to send content to apps without changing frontend code.• Helped drive a massive migration from in-house email/SMS/push tools to an event-driven Braze integration, empowering marketing to move rapidly and make easy content changes.• Collaborated with other leads to justify and move towards architectural improvements.• Planned out work and provided technical guidance for a team of 4-5 engineers.

• Optimized runtime of the business-critical job distribution system by identifying andreducing bottlenecks and repetitive queries. Implemented the platform’s first instance ofparallel processing.• Designed and implemented a quarterly performance-based tier and rewards system, including the underlying metrics tracking it relied on.• Created a scoped flag system that reduced risk by allowing us to release experimental features market-by-market instead of globally all at once.

• Acted as Lawn Love’s technical liaison as it merged into LawnStarter. Co-designed andoversaw the live migration of millions of rows of data with no downtime on either platform.• Due to team changes, I became the de facto subject matter expert of the codebase. It gave me the opportunity to think differently, take ownership, teach others, and document the tribal knowledge I had accrued, ultimately earning me a promotion to senior level.• Adapted and thrived in an unexpected transition from in-office work to being permanentlyremote.

San Diego, California, United States

• Expanded and maintained Laravel/React web app and React Native mobile app for acomplex two-sided marketplace reminiscent of Uber.• Ran multiple successful server-side A/B tests including a ground-up redesign of themarketing site, and a React-based overhaul of the multi-step quote form.• Empowered Marketing with a Mautic integration, continuously syncing over a millioncontacts for automated email and SMS campaigns.

San Diego, California, United States

• Used PHP (and Laravel) and JavaScript (and React) to add features to the web platform. Examples include commenting and voting on content, and viewing live streams.• Fleshed out the main platform's API in order to share data with multiple mobile apps, the website, and the internal portal.• Integrated third-party web services such as Google Analytics, Facebook, Instagram, MailChimp, and more with the company portal in order to combine different data sources into easily-digestible reports.• Created a content management app using React Native. Among its features were creating and editing articles and galleries, and broadcasting live video with real-time chat messaging.• Made progress on a React Native app to serve as a native counterpart to the company's web platform.

Fresno, California, United States

• Maintained a suite of custom in-house web applications driven by PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.• Built new web tools based on specifications given by department managers.• Responded to bug reports, feature requests, and questions about the applications or the underlying data.• Did Research & Development involving anything from data-mining, to hands-on assessment of new technologies that we could leverage in upcoming projects.

• Independently designed, developed, and maintained mobile apps, amassing over 2,000,000 downloads.• Created an ID card generator which held a Top 500 Free Entertainment Apps ranking on Google Play in 6 countries for a few months.• Created apps natively with Java and the Android SDK, and games on the LibGDX framework.• Developed hybrid apps using the Ionic framework, Cordova, and web technologies such as Angular, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.