• Act as lead developer on multiple concurrent projects, working with clients and colleagues to meet aggressive timelines.• Apply object-oriented approaches using Django Models and Python Descriptors to facilitate modularity as domain logic grew.• Perform complex calculations on tabular data using Pandas.• Use CSS to realize challenging custom front end interfaces from design files using Material UI.• Implemented a highly configurable React TypeScript application, using OpenAPI documentation to auto-generate interfaces for the front end.

React application, live on Heroku at https://refrigerator.willowpowell.com• Designed and implemented over 50 React functional components, with a focus on reusability via composition.• Created scalable state management architecture with useReducer and useContext hooks to facilitate flexible and safe handling of state that depended on user authorization.• Developed multiple thunk actions for handling multi-step state changes based on API responses.• Maintained over 95% test coverage using React Testing Library and Jest, providing confidence through multiple refactors.

• Designed a RESTful API using Flask to support the front end.• Used SQLAlchemy and Alembic to implement and create migrations for database models.• Implemented nuanced caching logic for data pulled from a remote API.• Decoupled request validation logic from application routes by developing a series of flexible Python decorators.• Reduced boilerplate code for interaction with multiple remote APIs by creating an extendable class that supported varied authorization and request flows.• Maintained test suite with 99% code coverage using Pytest, including a sophisticated set of fixtures to optimize performance of tests without connecting to remote APIs.

• Trained and led a team of 4 project and support managers who managed over 200 active projects and 300 live clients at any given time.• Developed scalable workflow for processing logical decision trees to support COVID-19 self-assessments used by hundreds of education clients in US and Canada, helping them to safely reopen schools in 2020.• Set expectations for and provided feedback to software developers in one-on-one meetings to enable rapid iteration through the development of challenging new features.

• Used highly-developed communication skills to smoothly manage large-scale, evolving, and complex onboarding projects with high degree of uncertainty and aggressive timelines.• Identified gaps in required product functionality and worked with internal and external stakeholders to find viable solutions.

• Designed a world-wide information delivery solution for New York University, which allowed the client to provide emergency contact and travel information for over 100 countries.• Pioneered and formalized onboarding processes for 2 new products that launched simultaneously.

• Discovered, scaled, and documented novel uses for JavaScript conditionals in proprietary CMS, leading to exponential increase in options for dynamic content in client applications.

• Oversee day-to-day restaurant operations• Supervise team of 6 servers, selling up to $5,000/day• Communicate with suppliers and contractors, (Mr. Dairy, World Meats, Doughheads)• Wrote proposal for new server sections in 110 seat restaurant, resulting in lower wait times

• Create, produce, and market original and derived theatre pieces• Raised over $4,000 via Indiegogo