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o Led development of a Java RESTful API for resources such as plants, families, and various other plant attributes, along with a search engine and virtual herbarium website used by over 100 researchers worldwide.o Increased accuracy and usefulness of search results by leveraging full-text indexes and complex queries using Hibernate & MySQL, leading to 10% faster searches and more relevant results.o Reduced the occurrence of duplicate data by 98% by developing a duplicate-finder component using Spring Boot & Hibernate to find plants with high similarity to each other based on various attributeso Utilized TDD for new functionality, and increased test coverage by 30% for the most critical search functionalities using JUnit. Also included tests for front-end components using Jest.o Decreased the amount of user actions needed to find information by 30% by building a statistics component using React, that displays various aggregated details about plants right from the dashboard.o Improved user experience by visually displaying the geographical location of 90% of plants in the database by integrating Google Maps web service using its JavaScript API.

o Strategically planned and executed lesson plans to teach an average of 20 students per class through custom instruction in areas such as OOP (using Java & C++) and Web development (using JavaScript, HTML & CSS).o Improved results on Computer Programming quizzes by 15% by explaining complex topics more simply, using various examples, and building an intuitive mental model, leading to better performance on lab assignments and exams.

o Maintained market research web portals for Fortune 200 companies, adding new features and functionalities such as custom widgetso Removed issues related to deprecated functionality by migrating a codebase containing 1,000,000+ lines of code to the latest PHP version, leading to better performance of libraries such as the spell-checker.o Standardized workflows & improved collaboration among a team of 10 developers by creating and maintaining documentation regarding new feature sets, resulting in a smoother onboarding process.o Increased the sources of information available to 1000+ users of strategic market research portals by adding multimedia widgets using JavaScript, resulting in more data points available for market analysis.

• Developed new internal web-based reporting system to replace tedious, spreadsheet-based systemresulting in improved user experience and 30% faster reporting process• Transformed 2-3 Photoshop templates to CSS and HTML per day

• Spearheaded design of online photo database of plants from Eastern Caribbean now used by biologistsand plant enthusiasts around the world• Built the backend with PHP and MySQL, with HTML/CSS (Bootstrap)/JS on the front end• Streamlined content management by creating a custom CMS• Increased speed of user interactions by 20% by incorporating AJAX requests on the front end