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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

- Worked as a full-stack Software Engineer at Procurated, a government procurement software company, utilizing Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, Heroku, and AWS to develop and maintain the application.- Eliminated tech debt and improved code ownership by optimizing CI processes to reduce costs and build times, migrating to TypeScript, and regularly updating and refining code for better maintainability.- Played a key role in building the team culture by organizing a tech book club, starting an internal wiki, and promoting knowledge-sharing through regular pair programming sessions, while also contributing to various tech initiatives and process improvements.- Served as tech lead on projects such as SEO improvements, improving internal data tools, and adding important security features (2FA), collaborating with cross-functional teams and internal customers to meet business needs.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Us

Joined The Nine, a web design agency, to build tools to make core business processes more efficient and improve value for customers. Led team that created a next-generation custom CMS, built with modern technologies that drastically improved developer + site speed. Taught and mentored interns, helping them learn Elixir, React, and TypeScript. Negotiated enterprise deal with major CDN provider + led migration to their infrastructure, improving load times on legacy CMS by more than 50%. Built CI pipeline for new CMS and improved tooling on existing legacy codebase.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Worked as a co-op for Nucor, a steel company, using software engineering to improve manufacturing processes. Developed the first version of an algorithm for checking for manufacturing errors using plant sensor data. Improved efficacy of internal file-syncing software, drastically reducing memory usage by 97%. Worked heavily with Transact-SQL, C#, and frontend Javascript frameworks to design fast, efficient dashboards for plant operators.

Created a custom application written that served 600+ customers using Ruby on Rails, React, Apollo GraphQL, and Redux. Redesigned main marketing website, making it viewable on mobile and increasing accessibility score to 88% from 72%. Decreased hosting costs and improved caching infrastructure, resulting in a faster website and 33% increase in organic search impressions.

Helped build a beautiful and functional React app that made extensive use of web workers and WebAssembly. Built a fast and memory-light Chrome extension with React, Emotion, Mobx, and Apollo.

Helped create a beautiful, functional web app and editor in React. Constructed complex CSS layouts and worked heavily with Apollo and GraphQL to make a scalable data pipeline for a very data heavy app.