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Mountain View, Ca, Us

San Francisco Bay Area

-Implemented a novel document navigation interaction in Dart and Flutter for Daylight’s proprietary reading application. Followed production code quality standards and defined UI regression and unit tests. -Collaborated closely with designers to create a new Flutter Android Application to showcase Daylight's innovative tablet hardware at industry events like the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).-Developed a suite of automated tooling to onboard and validate incoming engineering samples. Integrated the CLI directly into Daylight’s inventory management platform to streamline the process of onboarding new samples, decreasing the time to onboard units from 35 minutes to 2 minutes. -Consolidated cloud infrastructure from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Decreased overall cloud costs by leveraging cost synergies and improved tail-latencies between services.-Managed the inventory and triage of 100s of engineering samples. Acted as primary quality assurance (QA) tester for incoming changes from external vendors.

San Francisco, California, United States

Graduated from a 6-month, part time, 500+ hour full-stack program. Course material included: JavaScript, Node, HTML, CSS, Git, Github, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, React, and PostgreSQL.Since graduating I been diligently improving my skills and learning new technologies. Some of the new technologies I have become familiar with include: Python, Django, React Native, Redux, TypeScript, SCSS, and many more libraries.Projects:Pantry Pal - Recipe Suggestion Mobile App | https://github.com/orgs/Project-TMCG/repositories- Developed a mobile app using React Native, TypeScript, and Redux that empowers users to easily find recipes according to their available ingredients- Led a cross-functional team of developers and designers with scrum, effectively managing project development using Agile methodologies for iterative feedback loops.- Leveraged Django backend to securely query the Spoonacular API, following security best practices to remove any potential threat of unauthorized access to the API Key, protecting data usage and reducing overall costs- Recruited a five-person, cross-functional team of two designers and three software engineers, developing a cohesive team visionKick-It - Event Availability Planner Web App | https://kick-it.live/event/example- Led a cross-functional team in the development of an event planning web app, giving event organizers an effective tool to find the best time to host their events according to their attendees’ availability.- Built a full-stack web application using React, TypeScript, and Node from scratch as the sole developer- Implemented a fully responsive design using custom SCSS and animations to drive user adoption and maximize trafficThe Village - Second-hand Marketplace for Parents Mobile App | https://github.com/den-ny/village- Developed a second-hand marketplace mobile app for parents to exchange unwanted or unused children’s products using React Native and Node.- Earned second place in fall 2022 Hackathon.

San Mateo

- Promoted to Client Success Manager, responsible for portfolio of 25 clients- Developed custom data reports for clients, quantifying their success and creating PR growth- Advised product management on the client and end-user experience. Gathered and documented specifications for engineering team to deliver customizations- Responsible for the maintenance and technical training of 100 client end users on our custom software solutions- Lead the internal project to implement Zendesk, scaling our ability to support additional customers without increasing headcount and provided product improvement data to drive innovation and additional revenue streams.

San Mateo, California, United States

- Gathered client requirements, implemented system configurations, trained users, and up-sold additional features- Retained over 90% of clients and grew revenue by 10%- Retention and expansion of client base led to acquisition by Benevity in 2018

San Mateo, California

Wooster. Ohio

I served as Professor Ronald Hustwit's research assistant from my freshman year through the first semester of my junior year at the College of Wooster. My contribution consisted of independently indexing and annotating thousands of pages of Oets Kolk Bouwsma’s work according to their relevance and substance. The source that I worked on served as the primary source for Professor Hustwit’s book on the eminent American philosopher Oets Kolk Bouwsma, entitled Something about O.K. Bouwsma. I developed the structure and organization of the work in collaboration with Professor Hustwit.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics & Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Treasurer/Co-Founder of Fencing Club, Phi Sigma Tau - Philosophy Honors SocietyI majored in both Philosophy.

Education record

Graduated from General Assembly's Software Engineering Immersive program. Covered everything from HTML, CSS, and Javascript to Nodejs.