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Seattle, Washington, United States

New York, NY, US

• Architected and built responsive web applications using Next.js, implementing server-side rendering and dynamic routing patterns for enhanced performance.
• Developed complex type-safe React components and custom hooks using TypeScript, ensuring robust state management and code maintainability across the platform.* Designed and integrated WebSocket communication system for.
• Implemented comprehensive blockchain functionality using wagmi and viem libraries, including wallet connections, smart contract interactions, and transaction management.
• Collaborated with backend team to integrate Elixir APIs and WebSocket channels, creating seamless data flow between AI agents, blockchain services, and frontend interfaces

Las Vegas, NV, US

• Developed and deployed a decentralized finance (DeFi) application on Next.js 13 App Directory within the Arbitrum blockchain at Seashell.
• Utilized wagmi hooks, viem, and rainbow-kit to seamlessly integrate web3 interactions, ensuring smooth and efficient blockchain interactions within the application.
• Contributed to the open-source community by forking Aave, Ampleforth Geysers and ENS Claims to maintain and allow for others to push forth open-source contributions.
• Two different protocols on the Arbitrum L2 chain, Coinbase’s L2 Base chain and created the top protocol for the latter with a TVL of over 110 million.
• Founding engineer of Seamless Protocol on Base.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Spearheaded the adoption and implementation of Next.js with Styled-Components resulting in improved performance and maintainability of the Snowcrash marketplace.
• Developed and integrated gRPC microservices into a PostgresDB, enhancing the scalability and efficiency of the overall system architecture.
• Modernized and streamlined the website by implementing new authorization patterns with Magic.Link, ensuring a secure and seamless user experience.
• Drove the adoption of Polygon blockchain technology to support a multichain NFT marketplace, enabling the onboarding of high profile partners with millions of followers.
• Delegated work tasks, provided guidance, and mentored junior developers to foster their professional growth and ensure successful project execution.
• Designed a system architecture based on a monorepo using Turborepo, component library with Storybook, and main client application, promoting code reusability and consistency across the Snowcrash platform.

Grapevine, Texas, US

• Developed and maintained a user-friendly frontend interface for GameStop NFT’s web3 application, leveraging Ethereum blockchain technology to ensure seamless and asynchronous web3 development.
• Implemented React and web3.js to create and manage user profiles, NFTs, collections, settings, features, and communications, enhancing the overall user experience.
• Utilized Storybook and a component library to provide easily consumable components, themes, and styling, while employing Redux Toolkit for efficient state management and API querying and caching.
• Thorough testing using React Testing Library, Jest, and snapshots.
• Contributed to the development of backend microservices using Node.js, Express, Go, and Postgres / RDS, hosted via Docker and Kubernetes.
• Configured and developed Cloudfront, S3, and Lambda functions on AWS to optimize performance, security and scalability while thriving in a fast-paced environment, adapting to shifting responsibilities throughout sprint.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and integrate React, Redux Sagas, Java, and Spring Boot micro-services foraccounts with M&T Bank, financial institutions, and legal integrations, ensuring seamless.
• Led the transition of the front-end architecture to a micro-frontend architecture using Module Federation and Webpack, enabling efficient onboarding of triple the number of developers and improving scalability.
• Advocated for the adoption of frontend development tools such as Storybook, Fullstory, and Component Libraries, enhancing development efficiency and code quality.
• Implemented modern best practices including mobile-first responsive development, accessibility(a11y), internationalization (i18n), and performance optimization, ensuring a user- friendly and inclusive experience.
• Maintained DevOps processes using Docker, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, AWS, and Argo CD stack, ensuring smooth deployment and continuous integration for the application.
• Offered a suite of tooling backed by M&T bank accounts to allow for smaller law firms to move off of simple apps like Quickbooks to do their accounting and IOLTA work.

• Consulting for Microsoft on Minecraft.net
• Led and mentored a team of twelve developers, fostering a culture of best practices in web development with a focus on React, Typescript, Webpack, NX Monorepo, and Python with Django.
• Implemented modern web development strategies to ensure data privacy, accessibility, scalability, and performance across multiple sites.
• Successfully managed the migration of account, cookie, and networks from Mojang to Microsoft Accounts after acquisition, collaborating with KBL, MSA, Stockholm Mojang, and other Microsoft managed services.
• Spearheaded the setup of a robust Java CMS in Docker and deployed a Kubernetes cluster on Azure to optimize the development environment.
• Navigated the acquisition of Mojang and brought the entire Minecraft web project into the Azure/Microsoft ecosystem from Python/AWS.

Arlington, VA, US

• Developed and maintained a robust React and Typescript UI for building tooling, visualizations, and usermanagement, using modern state management in hooks and context also following industry-standard testing patterns.
• Charting and data visualizations using libraries like D3.js and react-charts to deliver powerful data to the C-suite.
• Leveraged Node with Serverless architecture to manage requests via Azure Functions, resulting in improved reliability and cost-effectiveness.
• Utilized CI/CD setup for web application deployment, employing automated testing to seamlessly deploy to Azure App Services from GitLab.
• Designed and implemented a REST micro-service for Teradata readonly data and application, integrating DevOps practices through GitLab/Docker/Pivotal/Cloud Foundry CI pipeline.
• Architected a scalable front-end platform solution for multiple teams across the globe, utilizing micro front-end architecture approaches.

Bachelor'S Degree, Social Sciences

Bachelor'S Degree, Management Information Systems

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