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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Austin, Tx, Us

Fullstack web development on a microservices oriented payments platform that processes ~$1 Billion in transactions per month.* Tech lead on the Unified Payment Flow team that built a universal checkout experience to be used across various AffiniPay products, acquisitions, and external partner integrations. Integrated our checkout flow with external providers like Affirm for our Pay Later offering, and AWS for their serverless CAPTCHA solution.* Led various teams that built high performant micro frontends using modern Typescript and React for a variety of business needs across our products.* Created unified CI/CD workflow for all frontend projects across the company using CircleCI* Used Ruby on Rails to develop RESTful APIs adhering to the JSON-API standard.* Helped to transition our platform to use Adyen as our payments processor. In the process of this, I helped to break up our legacy monolithic rails codebase into a modern microservice architecture that uses Kafka messages to stream events between services to make our platform more performant and resilient.* Developed database schemas and optimized queries using MySQL and Rails.* Participated in high level architecture designs to assist team in making software architecture decisions as our platform continues to scale.* Worked with project management, design, and QA teams to deliver features to meet project goals and requirements in an agile based environment.

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Full stack web development on a cross platform web application using a Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL backend and a React frontend. Worked in an agile scrum based environment to coordinate with other developers and project managers. Tools used include BitBucket, Google Cloud Platform, and Pivotal Tracker.* Worked with project management, design, and QA to deliver solutions to meet project goals and requirements on a regular release schedule. * Assisted development team with overall project architecture and application design.* Created API integration with Allscripts Electronic Health Record system to pull in patient, appointment, encounter, and charge posting data to be used by our application.* Participated in code reviews, technical documentation creation, and troubleshooting to resolve bugs in the application.* Implemented database schema design and query optimization with PostgreSQL* Used Ruby on Rails to develop backend RESTful API functionality adhering to Model View Controller (MVC) architecture design practices.* Used ReactJS to create components used across many facets of the frontend of the application* Followed test driven development (TDD) practices using RSpec for unit testing

Louisville, Ky, Us

* Java and javascript development in an agile team-based environment * Automated scaling up/down of connected appliance AWS resources in event of server update or disconnect* Front end javascript development on internal recipe management tool

Louisville, Ky, Us

* Automated learning material delivery to field agents using AWS Lambda, AWS CloudFront and Docker* Automated SSO ID and Slack username integration to enhance internal communication abilities using AWS Lambda and AWS RDS* Used SSLyze for Python to scan internal SSL/TLS servers and determine security misconfigurations to be fixed

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Created and managed website content, designed images and marketing materials, reviewed video, assisted with computer issues and other general dutiesLouisville City FC http://www.louisvillecityfc.com/ is professional soccer franchise based in Louisville, Kentucky. The team plays in the United Soccer League http://www.uslsoccer.com/

http://kentuckygse.com/Three-week residential summer program at Georgetown College where students, working in teams, take an idea for a product or service and utilize science, technology, engineering, art, math and business skills to design a product and develop a business model for it.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Software Engineering & Computer Science (Dual Major) | College Of Engineering & Computing

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