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Oakland, California, US

• Develop features and improvements for Credit Karma Money, Credit Karma's consumer-facing mobile banking product, using React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Scala and Thrift.
• Develop, maintain, and advocate code quality standards and best practices. Teach and reinforce these principles through code reviews and mentoring.
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for the team. Serve as a technical leader, resource, and mentor for the team members of the product engineering team.
• Build highly scalable, integrated and testable systems and maintain documentation and knowledge base for technical and business stakeholders.

Livonia, Michigan, US

• Initiated and brought to fruition a containerized React-based single page web application framework project that enabled easy integration with the company’s existing microservices architecture and use of CI/CD pipeline.
• Lead a new web app project and ported a legacy app to the newly developed framework in a few sprints.
• Contributed in development of a React component library based on a standardized design system working closely with the UX team which helped our team to iterate quickly on new UI features.
• Introduced and integrated an End-to-End UI testing framework with the existing products owned by our team that enabled us to catch issues and bugs earlier in the release process.
• Assisted in conducting technical interviews for the team.

Livonia, Michigan, US

• Contributed in building, scaling and maintaining Valassis’ internal services and web-based applications.
• Worked with internal customers and the UX team to develop new features that will drive the business.
• Contributed to the team’s continuous efforts to improve quality and efficiency of development platforms, tools and processes.
• Tech Stack: Java Spring, Thrift-based microservices, Dotnet Core, JavaScript, React/Redux

Birmingham, Alabama, US

Courses:- Algorithms and Data Structures (Fall 2018)- Advanced Web App Development (Summer 2018)- Operating Systems (Spring 2018)- Algorithms and Data Structures (Fall 2017)

Media Relations: marketing@tpsworldwide.com, Sales & Partnerships: sales@tpsworldwide.com, AE

• Designed & developed large-scale native financial mobile apps using Xamarin as well as native platform tools that run on both iOS and Android
• Designed & developed secure RESTful mobile APIs using ASP.NET Core.
• Developed a payment button API similar to Pay with Apple/Android Pay for iOS, Android and Cordova using Swift, Java and JavaScript respectively.
• Actively contributed in UX/UI research and development during design sprints.
• Implemented CI/CD pipeline for cross-platform and native apps using Git, VSTS and VS Mobile Center.
• Contributed in several open-source projects of Xamarin tools and plugins.

• Designed & developed a P2P messaging app that received thousands of downloads and was voted as the best among 26 apps developed by other interns during the program
• Designed & developed dynamic web apps and RESTful APIs using ASP.NET

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science