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Costa Mesa, CA, US

Columbus, Ohio, US

Developed and maintained a Knowledge Graph-backed search tool UI in Angular/Typescript

Teutopolis, Illinois, US

• Developed 2 new applications in Vue 3 and 1 prototype website in Nuxt.js
• Created a private Vue component library, released to Github Package Registry using GithubActions

Oakland, CA, US

• Improved user interface and user experience for a Java-based refresh of OriginalityCheck.
• Resolved ~10 major accessibility issues in an Angular product, preparing for beta release.

Oakland, CA, US

• Developed the next generation of the GradeMark application that supported multi-instructor grading.
• Contributed to development of a robust microservice-backed SPA, using React/Redux, Java with Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Hibernate), coordinating multiple PostgresDB instances.
• Solved problems working with a distributed team across 4 time zones and 3 continents, employing agile methodology.
• Delivered the Alpha version on time within 9 months by collaborating closely with Product, UX and QA, in time for a product launch conference.

Oakland, CA, US

• Supported the conversion of a monolithic legacy codebase to a microservice-style architecture.
• Designed and implemented the transition from a legacy document processing system to an asynchronous solution, reducing metadata processing backlogs significantly.
• Improved stability of product by optimizing complex database queries.

Oakland, CA, US

• Collaborated with iOS engineers to add features to the Turnitin iOS App.
• Enhanced usability of the REST API service by adding new endpoints while increasing stability by adding testing.
• Championed and implemented push notification feature for the application.

Oakland, CA, US

• Developed a more robust, automated build and release process.
• Improved build and release process by implementing blue-green deployment using Ruby, Jenkins, Capistrano and Vagrant, decreasing deployment time from 3 days to less than 4 hours.
• Created dashboards for monitoring performance and identifying bottlenecks using Datadog & Splunk.

Oakland, CA, US

• Built and improved features on all core products in TFS: OriginalityCheck, GradeMark and PeerMark.
• Led the first large localization effort for TFS, working with 10 in-house translators, delivering all core products in 15 languages.
• Designed and developed internal tools and processes for managing translated strings.
• Trained engineers, product owners, translators and marketing representatives on how to best utilize our processes through presentations and individual coaching.
• Developed proof-of-concept of next-generation TFS interface using Ember & Node.js.

Oakland, CA, US

• Built and maintained multiple versions of core products in TFS.
• In a team of 4 engineers, developed and delivered Document Viewer, Turnitin’s flagship application that combined TFS core products into a single view.
• Implemented Turnitin’s first localization solution, delivering core products in 3 additional languages (Spanish, French, German), enabling greater marketing to Latin America and continental Europe.

Dallas, TX, US

• Developed and maintained software modules for billing customers in 4 national regions and 13 states.
• Automated the process for validating test data, cutting investigation turnaround times from over 2 days to under 1 hour.