Perform tasks across a wide variety of projects. From ensuring a good developer experience for consuming our public API, implementing internal integration processes, to launching large scale web applications.

Web Application developer for the Data Interaction and Student Portal platform for the states of Texas, Oklahoma, and Nevada. • Ensure the uptime and integrity of highly trafficked web applications. • Migrated from a self-hosted server solution to Azure Kubernetes.• Converted applications to Docker containers.• Monitor Production environments via Azure Application Insights and Azure Log Analytics.• Implemented SAML SSO Integration.• Setup Jenkins and Gitlab CI jobs for develop, staging, and production environments.• Ensure the successful deployment of software to production environments.• Implemented unit and automated tests for our various code bases.• Perform code reviews.• Implemented a plugin to track React render time between Flux actions to identify performance bottlenecks.• Wrote shell scripts to ensure the periodic backup of important metadata and logs for our various MongoDB instances.• Monitor production environments for performance and security issues. Reviewed weekly security scans and made sure that security patches were up to date. • Successfully oversaw the training of a summer intern. She rapidly became productive and familiar with our code base and was offered a full-time role upon her graduation. • Coordinate with the Texas Education Agency (TEA) for code updates to the production servers and clarifying business logic required for upcoming software updates.

Developed Hybrid Mobile apps for iOS, Android, Windows 8.1, and Windows Phone platforms. • Coded mobile UI screens in semantic HTML 5 and styled using SASS/CSS to comply with the company style guide and wireframes that were provided.• Integrated front-end client apps with back-end REST services.• Used Swagger 2.0 to define REST API contracts between apps and back-end services as well as to auto-generate mock services and client-side code, thus speeding up development time.• Used Cordova plugins to access device features such as cameras and file systems.• Wrote comprehensive unit tests using Mocha, Chai, and Sinon to ensure high code quality and protect against regressions.• Used Karma to run these tests across multiple devices and platforms.• Helped maintain several Jenkins builds to provide Continuous Integration throughout the software development life cycle of each app.

Migrated a legacy web application to a modern MVVM architecture as a consultant for Dell, Inc. • Created web pages using emerging web standards such as HTML 5, CSS 3, semantic markup, and progressive enhancement.• Used object oriented JavaScript to connect HTML 5 templates with two way data binding to JavaScript view models.• Used Backbone JS models to perform Ajax communication with the back-end REST APIs.• Tracked, managed and debugged defects using TFS.• Daily stand up meeting with a back-end team in Bangalore, India to resolve defects between the front and back-end components of the project.

Performed software development focused on software solutions for small to medium-sized businesses.• C# development for desktop applications.• Website development using ASP .NET MVC.• Microsoft SQL Server integration using Entity Framework • Mobile application development for Android and BlackBerry platforms.

Responsible for testing of Cisco suite of products that allow for the web based management and maintenance of multiple small business networks.• Perform daily regression tests for the product’s GUI features to verify proper functionality. • Present and advocate ideas for GUI feature enhancements. • Test newly developed features, report bugs, and certify the developer’s solutions.

Responsible for handling various technical security issues within Raytheon programs.• Performed security audits and implemented solutions for various large UNIX systems.• Wrote Perl scripts to perform security audits as well as scripts to fix incorrect system configurations.• Produced weekly audit reports for senior management.• Analyzed existing scripts and system configurations to find known errors and provide efficient solutions.• Authored technical documentation, including User Guides, Test Plans, and Hardening Guides.

• Supported a team that tested and designed Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) for server hardware using Verilog and VHDL to simulate electronic hardware for circuit logic testing.• Responsible for debugging test environment errors.