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New York City Metropolitan Area

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Led the development of a new sales-targeting feature that enabled customers to identify key accounts and relevant contacts, contributingdirectly to the largest sales deal in company history. Collaborated closely with.
• Improved the success rate of a core feature by nearly 30% through enhancing the system's load-handling capacity and refining profile matching logic. This optimization significantly boosted the reliability and.
• Drove adoption of a more structured release process, incorporating comprehensive pre-release evaluation by team members and stakeholders, while also championing unit and integration testing practices. This initiative.

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• Joined as the 5th employee (4th engineering hire), collaborated on key engineering initiatives that contributed to the company’s success in raising $15M in Series A funding, fostering technological innovation and.
• Engineered a RESTful API which harnessed Retrieval-Augmented Generation to optimize the outputs from OpenAI Large Language Models (LLMs), significantly improving the accuracy and relevancy of responses in our product’s.
• Leveraged Kubernetes for deployment and scaling of services on Microsoft Azure, alongside maintaining CI/CD pipelines to seamlessly deploy code changes to testing environments, ensuring efficient development workflows.
• Integrated Angular and Auth0 to develop secure, reusable components for our frontend, implementing robust authentication and authorization features in order to enhance the security of our application and improve.
• Orchestrated automation testing processes by utilizing Docker containers to seamlessly create and manage consistent testing environments, while implementing robust Page Object Models in Playwright and Cypress.
• Designed, developed, and rigorously tested a comprehensive Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system to regulate feature and data access for users, encompassing database architecture, API integration, and intuitive UI.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Architected Express.js-based RESTful APIs for efficient management of student registrations and workshop enrollments, enhancing the data flow and user experience within the educational platform.
• Leveraged React and TypeScript to create reusable components for Codesmith’s public website, utilizing conditional rendering to display event information for live workshops for ~200k annual visitors.
• Composed Jest and React Testing Library testing suites to ensure and maintain expected functionality of React components.
• Mentored students throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of projects utilizing technologies such as React, Node.js, SQL, and Docker, facilitating successful project launches and fostering professional.