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New York, Ny, Us

Served as co-tech lead on a team of eight engineers to re-platform the system that powers the Times' commercial messaging, including the paywall and other business-sensitive experiences

New York, Ny, Us

Work alongside a team of two additional engineers to replatform the company's checkout experienceEnable feature teams to continue experimentation and design overhauls while building new systemReplace legacy credit card implementation, successfully reducing the scope of the system's PCI requirements

Beaverton, Or, Us

Assist with architecting, deploying, and maintaining several NodeJS-based services for the company's greater notifications platformSupport logic to generate and update company email templates using React with StoryBook for documentationEnhance legacy code bases through TypeScript adoption and breaking monolithic applications into smaller servicesManage CI/CD pipelines via Jenkins that deploy to EC2 and Lambda AWS targetsImplement integrations with log aggregators, distributed tracing support, and key alert metrics for observabilitySupport real-time product launches, from SMS and in-app notifications to order confirmation emails

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Develop and maintain a reusable, vanilla JavaScript web component library for use across the company's numerous web application modulesImplement uniform design spec (Material) across component libraryAssist with researching and publishing bare-metal, pure JavaScript application templates replete with state management and one-way data binding solutions baked inMaintain a working knowledge of Web APIs and WCAG standards to stay compliant and relevantConfigure and maintain Webpack, Gulp, and other build tool scripts

Publish and maintain the Aleph Node blog to help move JS community forwardBuild API servers using Node and Express (Will push for GraphQL, comfortable with REST)Adopt, Transition to TypeScript-based projectsManage environments mainly in: AWS EC2, API Gateway & Lambda; Heroku dynos; Zeit Now, LinodeDevelop full-stack applications using React, Redux, VueJS, and other performant JavaScript librariesExperience with Laravel, Symfony PHP frameworksHandle all build and site-hosting logistics for a group of small businesses in the Las Vegas, Nevada area.Develop and maintain the open-source, automated UI snapshot testing library Testophobia

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Deploy highly available Python-based API using AWS Lambda + API Gateway and Django Rest Framework to service suite of React-based web applications - Implement rate limiting using Memcached on AWS ElastiCache - Enforce multisite authentication, JWT integration - Integrate membership/campaign subscription functionality - Commerce-based API integrations, including Shopify, Stripe, PayPal, and Amazon Pay - Marketing and transactional email integration using MailGun, CustomerIO - Configure, maintain fulfillment services connected to Shopify dashboardCreate feature-rich, custom e-commerce experiences - Write all scripts for CI/CD integration using CircleCI - Build React component library for company use across projects, documentation - Build opinionated React-based templates for teams to quick-launch sites - "Opinionated" here refers to decisions on state management, CSS-in-JS solutionsAssist in development and research into pushing company infrastructure into cloud-based environments - Manage organization Docker Cloud account, version control, and CI/CD layers - Strategize, oversee and implement all company AWS configurations - IAM user roles/permissions - VPC configuration - Subnets - Route Tables - NAT gateway, internet gateway configuration for API accessibility - Experiment with AWS ECR, ECS technologies

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Build, configure, and maintain several LAMP/LEMP stacks in different environments Enhance user experience and ad layout based on device and referrerCreate full-scale web applications using the Laravel frameworkImplement full-stack changes to hosted sites (HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES2015) and PHP)Participate and assist with agile development team strategies

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

Responsibilities Push development builds to our various staging and production environments, develop front-end code for the WynnLasVegas.com website as well as the company's HR portal, troubleshoot issues across environments, maintain configuration settings for IIS and DFS management, draft and present change documentation to IT leadership for approval, maintain all PeopleSoft access and application functionality, deploy TIBCO service updates in various testing and production environments. Accomplishments Successfully deployed PeopleSoft upgrades, WynnLasVegas.com site redesign and installation of Sitecore as its content management system, made several modifications to the web booking engine widget on the company website using jQuery to improve performance Skills Used Ability to code HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and C# within the .NET framework, comfortable with MVC design pattern, ability to troubleshoot web and network issues

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

Design and deploy Wynn Las Vegas Wi-Fi Portal with team of networking engineersMake changes to the company's suite of web applications using C# .NETConfigure and maintain different environments (development, staging, production)Learn Sitecore development fundamentals

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

Responsibilities As a desktop support technician, I was the first line of defense for all hardware- and software-related issues. Job duties included creating and deploying images for PCs, troubleshooting at all stages of the OSI model, and setting up for events across the two properties Accomplishments The position allowed me to put into action the work I was performing in college, allowed for hands-on experience to assist in all layers of the OSI model Skills Used More than anything, the position instilled in me the ability and tenacity to solve any technology-related problem placed in front of me.

Assist students in writing programs and completing exercises in the C++, Java, and Python programming languages.

Toronto, On, Ca

Report breaking national news under a strict deadline,learn about the group's editing process and ghost-writing techniques

Managed a team of 14 staff members and oversaw the production of a weekly publication while experimenting with ideas to position the organization as a forerunner in the digital journalism age.

Edited copy for the publication and enhanced its stories online and in print.

Wrote stories pertaining to the environment and local politics while producing digital content for the website.

Us

Covered local business and wrote entertainment features.

Journalism, English Literature

Computer Science