Experience

• Spry Digital

  2023 to Present

  Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
  

  NodeJS, ReactJS, TypeScript, AWS, EC2, GitLab CI, Emacs, Bash

  • Maintaining and improving buyflows generating up to $3M/mo with 40K sales/mo for a leading telecom company, supporting a $1.6M/yr contract.
  • Fostering a highly communicative team culture by introducing pair programming, leading a developer study group, and stewarding technical documentation.
  • Increased quality of technology department meetings by 12.5% to a 9 out of 10 rating by introducing structured agendas and discussing meaningful topics.
  • Evangelizing a business management framework to align company processes and improve the efficiency of the technology department, by coordinating process changes and educating peers on the system.
  • Modernizing systems and improved reliability by introducing and driving the adoption of TypeScript, unit testing, and CI/CD.
  • Automated manual code releases by creating a robust CI/CD pipeline, drastically reducing deployment time and reducing the risk of human error.
  • Consistently delivering releases above expectations and ahead of schedule by improving clarity in the systems code and streamlining processes around meetings, code reviews, and deployment.
• Incremental

  2022 to 2023

  Senior Software Engineer
  

  Clojure, AWS, EC2, Redshift, Athena, S3, Step Functions, Serverless, Terraform, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Emacs, Elisp, Bash, JavaScript, Python, GitHub Actions

  • Drove development of data ingestion systems for a retail media analytics early-stage startup, connecting retail purchase data with advertising campaign data to maximize the value of ad spend.
  • Trained and mentored developers from an object-oriented background on Clojure, immutability and the functional programming paradigm.
  • Migrated ingestion to a simplified ETL pipeline which reduced new data ingestion time, expanded system visibility, and enabled more efficient response to data inquiries.
  • Demonstrated a strong ability to independently drive change, including integrating several new data sources into the ETL pipeline while requiring zero support from downstream teams.
  • Owned unification of transform projects using Polylith to drastically reduce code duplication and enable re-use, increasing development speed of adding new data sources significantly.
• Washington University School of Medicine

  2021 to 2022

  Applications Developer, Division of Oncology
  

  GCP, Python, Bash, Scala, Perl, Cromwell, CWL, WDL, LSF, Terra.bio

  • Drove migration data pipeline for on-demand reproducible runs of precision oncology workflows to GCP.
  • Integrated cloud solution with the local-cluster provenance database.
  • Modernized workflow definitions to industry standards to enable the use of cloud workflow orchestration.
  • Documented user guides and system behaviors, successfully providing support to researchers adopting the cloud-migrated system.
• Guaranteed Rate

  2019 to 2021

  Software Engineer, Borrower Data
  

  Clojure, ClojureScript, Reagent, Re-Frame, NodeJS, ReactJS, Python, AWS, Serverless, Terraform, Kubernetes, Step Functions, PostgreSQL, SQS, Emacs, Elisp, GitHub Actions

  • Aligned objectives and bridged communications with designers, frontend engineers, and dependency teams to develop and launch a user-friendly website to support new borrowers.
  • Owned successful completion of various legacy and incomplete projects to drive value for the business, namely the core TransferSafe service previously owned by a team split in a reorganization, and a few legacy .NET services that needed continued maintenance.
  • Fostered collaborative working relationships with colleagues remotely, effectively navigating team growth from five partially remote backend engineers to 12 fully remote interdisciplinary staff.
  • Learned and utilized new skills in an efficient manner based on business and project needs, including independently learning Terraform and Re-Frame/Reagent libraries; trained staff to develop skill-sets.
  • Strategized and led the complete migration of 12+ services from disparate, Serverless stacks to a standardized Terraform-managed multi-tenant infrastructure.
• The Climate Corporation

  2017 to 2019

  Software Engineer II, Geospatial Eng
  

  2018 to 2019

  Software Engineer I, Geospatial Eng
  

  2018 to 2018

  Software Engineer Intern, Geospatial Eng
  

  2017 to 2018

  AWS, Clojure, ReactJS, Ruby, Scala, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Landsat, ArcGIS, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, Emacs, JavaScript, Google Maps API, Nano, Bash, Python

  • Improved the efficiency and quality of map images by transitioning the legacy batch-driven, service-oriented microservices system to an event-oriented microservices architecture.
  • Decreased development time related to business logic changes and optimized system visibility by transitioning logic filtering and status tracking processes for ingested geospatial datasets from the legacy pipeline to a separate service.
  • Achieved Engineering Department Award for geospatial ingestion pipeline redesign.
  • Streamlined troubleshooting and escalated issue resolution processes by visualizing individual geospatial dataset boundaries via a React.js frontend; completed an expanded version of the project later on.
  • Drove adoption of the visualization tool by training the support team, resulting in a reduced number of escalated tickets, and decreased engineering time spent on support.
  • Mentored and supported interns on Python, Bash, and geospatial team services-related issues.