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Mechanicsburg, Pa, Us

• Played a pivotal role in the software development by designing and maintaining a module leveraging the Fico Liquid Credit API for extracting, aggregating, and archiving consumer credit scores, enhancing loan origination processes while delivering clean and scalable code in Python using the Django web framework.• Coordinated closely with senior developers and business intelligence teams, employing agile methodologies, continuous integration, and frequent communication through daily standups to effectively design and develop a scalable SaaS product that streamlines loan origination for small and medium-sized banks.• Engineered and sustained a module for aggregating and archiving consumer tax records, utilizing Django and PostgreSQL, thus optimizing financial spreading.• Developed an automated UCC Searches and Filing module, enhancing borrower collateral assignment and verification efficiency. Integrated Django with the Celery task queue and Redis as a message broker to run periodic tasks for submitting searches and filings, as well as processing the results.• Evaluated software solutions, deploying a variety of tests, including Unit Tests, Integration Tests, and Regression Tests, with the help of frameworks such as Pytest. I also wrote an initialization script for the local environment using Factory Boy and Django Rest Framework Serializers to simulate conditions similar to the production environment. • Maintained and enhanced the software by implementing periodic updates and optimizations, utilizing Sentry’s tracing and profiling for performance monitoring, which ensured continuous system efficiency.

Birmingham, Alabama, Us

• Directed a team of 5 developers to meet the evolving software needs of a rapidly expanding franchising company, focusing on business management systems and operational efficiency.• Provided technical leadership and expertise, guiding the team through complex technical challenges and ensuring adherence to best practices. Ensured timely and efficient delivery of software projects by accommodating timelines, allocating resources, selecting the right technologies and tools, and monitoring project progress to ensure delivery.• Led the redevelopment and launch of the proprietary business management system using the Python Django web framework on the backend and Django’s template engine with HTML, CSS, and Javascript on the front end, enhancing operational efficiency.• Spearheaded the development of a headless franchise network hub using React and Next.js, enabling dynamic appointment scheduling through SSR (Server Side Rendering) and on-demand fetching of custom prices and packages for franchises. Optimized SEO performance, scalability, and responsiveness with Incremental Static Regeneration on periodically changing pages. These changes resulted in a 23% increase in lead flow.• Developed a companion app using React Native with Typescript for employees, addressing challenges in synchronizing daily schedules, implementing navigation functionality, and handling asynchronous updates for job completions. • Migrated the Django-based APIs supporting the headless hub site and companion app to AWS, containerized via Docker, and deployed on Elastic Beanstalk, enhancing scalability and reliability.• Reconstructed the marketing/sales pipeline to track each user journey from their first brand encounter to purchase.• Wrote E2E tests using Playwright and Selenium to ensure key parts of the applications functioned before deployment and streamlined testing and deployment by implementing CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI

Birmingham, Alabama, Us

• Contributed to the technical effort by developing a hybrid mobile application using the Ionic Framework, enhancing operational efficiency for employees through detailed job assignments.• Created REST APIs using DRF (Django Rest Framework) to integrate with the Ionic application, thus enhancing backend functionality by leveraging the DRF Simple JWT (JSON Web Token) package and DRF serailziers for data validation.• Developed a Business Intelligence System featuring department-specific dashboards using the open-source BI tool Metabase, enhancing data accessibility and visualization across the organization.• Collaborated closely with the Operations team and franchisees to diagnose and resolve production issues by identifying root causes, implementing effective solutions, and providing ongoing support to minimize downtime and enhance system reliability.

Birmingham, Alabama, Us