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Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

Advance feature development by setting tactical priorities, communicating relevant organizational contexts, measuring progress against OKRs, reviewing team work to ensure compliance with acceptance criteria and coding standards, and contributing code on features as necessary.Manage standard operating procedures, on-call best practices, and triage expectations for reactive issues and client escalations while coordinating with the operations team managing migration projects.Cultivate career growth and completion of personal goals with employees through regular one-to-ones and actionable feedback.Conduct technical and behavioral interviews, participate in the creation of role-accurate and flexible coding challenges, and lead technical interview training for the Product Engineering organization.Promote security best practices, including the creation of threat models, as Security Champion.

Watertown, Ma

Developed features to support clinical data migration, specifically delivering undo capabilities for remediating data migrated in error.Designed architecture and APIs for React/TypeScript client-facing mapping application to ease operational burdens and decrease migration project timelines..Facilitated standups, retrospectives, and planning sessions using team-selected Agile practices.Participated in technical interviews for prospective athena developers.

Greater Boston Area

Develop new client-side features using Backbone, Marionette, and TypeScript.Create reusable front-end components, helper functions, and testing utilities to streamline code base and unify product appearance.Enhance reliability of existing front-end code base by refactoring and adding tests.Ensure client-side code immunity to common security vulnerabilities, such as cross-site scripting.Facilitate Agile ceremonies and pursue team-centric practices as Scrum Master.

Maryland Heights, Missouri

Created discrete, RESTful Grails services to perform business logic using Oracle data structures.Developed robust AngularJS interfaces to call RESTful services and clearly display returned data.Advocated for Agile processes and provide advice on Agile practices within the team.Wrote well-scoped, workable stories that account for both business requirements and technical priorities.Addressed service requests, incidents, and bugs that require business knowledge spanning multiple vendors and partners.

Maryland Heights, Missouri

Wrote webMethods flow services to provide internal and external customers with accurate and performant integrations.Developed a Java application to improve build automation within the Application Integration team.Created and modified database objects and PL/SQL procedures to utilize input from and push data to webMethods Integration Servers.Analyzed errors in production, determine the most comprehensive fixes, and implement said fixes in accordance with customer specifications and timelines.Designed applications for internal use and present associated project proposals to upper management.Composed documentation regarding source control, Agile, and TDD processes and practices.

Cambridge, Ma

Developed database connectivity and performance functionality in Java for proprietary software.Advised development teams on functional and performant additions to the product's database schema.Created SQL for implementing new database functionality.Built new features in PegaRULES Process Commander, including UI for the internal developer environment.

Cambridge, Ma

Created an application using proprietary software to manage and organize the company's systems.Managed various databases with SQL for use in the application.Composed a Python script to automatically generate Microsoft Visio diagrams given specific set of data.

Watertown, Ma

Developed and maintained websites, making use of various SQL databases.Created web applications using C# for internal company use.

Oberlin, Ohio, United States

Assist students with Java programming in lab.Grade lab assignments for class of forty students.

B.A, Computer Science And East Asian Studies (Japanese Language)

Activities and Societies: Anime Club, Swing Society, Aikido, Starcraft II Team

Japanese Language And Literature

Attended Doshisha University through the Associated Kyoto Program (AKP) study-abroad organization. Spent one year at the school.