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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Improved e-commerce site performance, using Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS to reduce size of first-party page load by 30%
• Enabled 3.7% boost in extra monthly sales by implementing product recommendations
• Designed, built, deployed, and managed custom Shopify app using React, Node.js, GraphQL, and Redis to simplify administrative tasks
• Implemented custom continuous integration (CI) workflow to deploy code changes
• Collected site data and conducted user experience research to recommend high-value projects to the business owner
• Collaborated with the client to prioritize development towards projects with the largest impact

• Planned and implemented complex React-based customer-facing online form editing features, including a drag-and-drop workflow editor
• Designed and built flexible, reusable React components across a maturing SaaS product
• Improved team capabilities by promoting tools such as TypeScript and Storybook and mentoring others on how to get the most out of these tools

• Re-platformed one line of products onto a new order management system, and added instrumentation and monitoring to ensure the website was performing and converting as expected
• Built a “sleep journal” using React, Node.js, Redis, and PostgreSQL, which helped customers discover which products worked best for them
• Oversaw a rewrite of the website, including technical planning and managing contractors

Cambridge, MA (remote)

• Partnered with UX and led the development of an internal design system using React and MUI
• Promoted use of the design system through internal presentations and an external article (https://www.pistoiaalliance.org/uxls/design-systems-help-teams/)
• Worked with a team to research, build, and promote a React-based toolkit for generating web applications using internal best practices
• Mentored others across the organization on JavaScript and React best practices in connection with our internal toolkit
• Planned and implemented complex scientific web applications and reusable components using React and Redux
• Improved code reusability by educating others on the use of internal NPM repository

• Built and managed React and serverless-based web apps to enable psychology studies
• Upgraded an existing PHP and MySQL web app to fit new study requirements
• Worked with clients to determine timelines and desired outcomes

Boston, MA

At Rakuten Loyalty, I worked with Node.js and MongoDB to perform batch analytics processing on large datasets.

Worcester, Massachusetts

- Built out a jQuery-based frontend for a fast-growing online education app (like Blackboard)- Worked with Amazon Web Services- Created a tool to display PDFs in the browser and allow educators to annotate them to provide feedback to students

Communicated with the employer to obtain project details. Developed mobile web game using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

My Major Qualifying Project (MQP) was a working 3D scanner. Working in the Optics Lab with a partner and under the guidance of Professor.

High School Diploma