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Northampton, Ma, Us

◾ Engaged in the design, development, and implementation of scalable and reliable software systems leveraging the Amazon Web Services platform. ◾ Assumed mentorship responsibilities, promoting compliance with industry coding standards and best practices. ◾ Undertook troubleshooting and resolution of complex technical issues. ◾ Effectively communicated and translated ideas and requirements into projects and tasks. ◾ Conducted thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to optimal coding principles and compliance with project standards. ◾ Provided mentorship and guidance to junior team members, fostering their professional growth by enhancing their technical skills and expanding their knowledge base. ◾ Wrote clear, idiomatic, and maintainable code in accordance with established programming principles within the industry. ◾ Used advanced algorithms and data structures while designing solutions to complex problems. Developed a test automation framework leveraging Playwright and TypeScript to empower engineers to quickly author automation tests, resulting in substantial cost savings. Test automation reporting capabilities enable engineers to promptly resolve software defects, thereby enhancing developer productivity and driving further cost savings.◾ Effectively addressed the complexities of testing based on application and account-level feature flags.◾ Incorporated automated accessibility testing to guarantee that the application is effectively usable by users with disabilities, resulting in substantial cost savings due to early detection of issues during the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.Technologies: AWS, EKS, ECR, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Java, Spring Framework, API Design, Playwright, Typescript, NodeJS, Jenkins Pipelines, Docker, Axe

Led the development of a user interface framework that empowers the product and development teams to define web-based forms in a declarative manner using form design JSON files, enabling a fully customizable mortgage loan application experience. ◾ Incorporates an integrated expression parser and evaluator leveraging Esprima to dynamically regulate the rendering of form controls. ◾ Form design files are standardized JSON-compliant files validated by automatically generated JSON schema documents.Technologies: Typescript, React, Nx Monorepo, NodeJS, Esprima, OpenAPI, Vitest, Axios, data structures

Developed a robust and scalable Java microservice that integrates with third-party service providers for analyzing self-employed borrower income required for mortgage loan processing. ◾ Implemented using hexagonal architecture to ensure loose coupling between application and external dependencies.◾ Utilizes batch processing to integrate third-party data into database using efficient and ACID compliant software design patterns. ◾ Wrote an extensive suite of unit and integration tests using JUnit and Test Containers.Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring MVC, JPA, Postgres, Flyway, Gradle, Kotlin, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Test Containers, Spring Cloud

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Assigned to work at Discover Financial Services, Inc. as a coach to mentor the software engineers on the Credit Operations team by pairing up to demonstrate best coding practices while using the TDD methodology. ◾ Participated in the development of an event-driven messaging solution aimed at facilitating seamless integration among disparate back-end systems composed of loosely-coupled microservices. ◾ Wrote effective unit, integration, and contract tests for the microservices, thereby guaranteeing the reliability and correctness of the system's components. ◾ Contributed to the development of an enterprise-wide call center application utilizing React and GraphQL.Technologies: Java, Spring Framework, Spring Cloud, RabbitMQ, MySQL, GraphQL, React, JavaScript

Northampton, Ma, Usa

Contributed to the design and development of numerous features of the nVIRO system. nVIRO consists of a suite of web-based applications that streamlines the process of permitting, licensing, and certification for the regulated environmental community. ◾ Designed and developed the nSITE Explorer mobile web-based GIS application to search and view environmental interest data. nSITE Explorer includes features to draw and measure on an interactive map and search by a variety of environmental data attributes. ◾ Developed the nSPECT Mobile Inspections application, empowering users to execute on-site inspections utilizing custom inspection forms. ◾ Collected inspection data was then synchronized with the backend systems for further processing. ◾ This solution resulted in significant cost reductions through enhanced operational efficiency.Technologies: C#, React, React Native, Redux, Sqlite

Boston, Ma, Usa

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