Backend-focused full-stack engineer working to help make the essential services of childcare and early childhood education more accessible.

Full-stack engineer on Percy.io visual testing and review platform. Predominantly focused on API back-end work in Ruby on Rails, with some front-end work in Ember. [Percy was acquired by Browserstack in 2020.]Lead development or collaborated on many features. Some examples include:* Significant work with integrations including Slack, version control systems (including Github, Gitlab, and more), bug tracking, metrics and monitoring collection, and developing Percy’s new user-facing integration logs for our version control integrations.* Substantial contributions improving the performance of Percy, including decreasing API response times, identifying and improving slow database queries, streamlining integration API calls, and making Percy visual review builds faster. * Led efforts to improve user authentication, authorization, and account management, both before and after acquisition of Percy.io by Browserstack. * Ensured a seamless acquisition launch with support for both legacy Percy.io and centralized Browserstack users.* Regularly taking the initiative to deep dive into customer reports or captured errors, finding edge cases, bugs, and opportunities for improving existing code, with fixes often providing an impact not only measurable in customer outcomes, but also in system monitoring metrics.* Diligent in writing well crafted RSpec tests and always ensuring that our test coverage was adequate to meet high standards of code quality.

Full-stack software engineer on the Nexia IoT smart home platform. Focused on feature development in the React-based embedded Javascript mobile application and Ruby on Rails API platform.

Senior engineer on Flowdock, a SaaS communication platform with a service oriented architecture. Responsible for new feature work as well as maintenance of an extensive legacy code base. Majority of time devoted to the Ruby on Rails services powering the core business logic, public REST API, and integrations with many third party systems. Front-end development in a mix of Javascript, React, Coffeescript, and Backbone. Other technologies in the platform include Node, Rspec, Jasmine, Postgres, Mongo, Redis, Memcached, Github, and Jenkins. The Flowdock team is an integrated scrum team practicing extensive automated testing, a combination of pair-programing and solo work, and agile methodologies.Previous projects include:* Productivity software with task tracking and email integrations built in Typescript, Koa, Node, React, and Redux.* Webhooks management user interface leveraging Javascript, React, and Marty.js.* Dockerized Clojure restful web service that consumes usage data through Kafka and provides a REST API to power a Javascript and React user interface.* Ruby integration applications facilitating data transfer between external systems and Rally’s Agile Lifecycle Management platform (now renamed CA Agile Central).

Engineered tool for managing automated testing across multiple projects and the SDKs that compose them. Tool provides test suite setup and encapsulated components to enabled versioned sharing of test suite across projects. Implemented solution within team and gained consensus to implement it across all teams on the project platform.

Managed technical support for social commerce SaaS application. Provided deployment support and led incident response. Responsible for documentation, including detailed product requirements for new features. Gained a thorough understanding of technical architecture sufficient to diagnose outages, run custom SQL queries, and assist in root cause analysis.

Provided escalated technical support for multi-channel eCommerce software. Developed the end-user training program. Innovated documentation by writing white papers for new product features and creating the support team’s internal wiki. Worked closely with engineering, account management, and marketing to ensure new and existing solutions satisfied business requirements.

Evaluated patient information and interfaced with physicians and staff to identify patients qualifying for clinical research studies, obtain informed consent for them to participate, and compiled study data.

Organized voter registration and education at the campus and state levels. Coordinated guest speakers and campus events. Lobbied on student issues at the Oregon Legislature, US Congress, PCC Board meetings, and college-wide committees. Collaborated with administrators, staff, and stakeholders to address student needs and concerns.