Work Experience

• Staff Software Engineer, Intellimize

  Feb, 2022 - Present

  • Revamped the entire frontend, resulting in a 75% reduction in load time and significant productivity enhancements

  • Upgraded all tooling to the latest and greatest, replacing previous unmaintained and outdated tooling

  • Led and guided the development of Rules Based Personalization

  • Created and built fully functioning CI/CD pipelines to streamline development and deployment processes

  • Successfully learned, built, and maintained Cloudfront usage for frontend and API

  • Provided team leadership by offering guidance on solutions, mentoring team members, & inspiring others

  • Developed a Shopify app integration leading to two customer sales wtihin the first two months

• Senior Software Engineer, Bubbles

  Apr, 2021 - Feb, 202210 months

  First of three engineering hires

  • Reduced CI test time by more than 60%, leading to faster development and testing cycles

  • Enhanced monorepo webpack integration and implemented fast refresh for improved development experience

  • Simplified environment setup by automating AWS environment output usage

  • Improved component structure, variation, and implementations for better code organization and reusability

  • Led development on image, video, and face recording functionality over the span of six months

  • Conducted code reviews, ideation for technical improvements, and interviews

  • Managed very large code merges and conflicts across features

  • Provided leadership guidance and feedback, ranging from culture to roadmap

• Senior Software Engineer, HubTran (acquired by TriumphPay)

  Aug, 2020 - Apr, 20218 months

  • Reduced Pusher usage leading to over a 50% cost reduction, 80% reduction in scripting time, 66% to 93% reduction in total messages sent, and 98% reduction in React renders

  • Decreased total delivered JavaScript size by 50% for improved website performance

  • Successfully migrated IDs from audit tables from int to bigint with no downtime, ensuring uninterrupted operations

  • Updated project tooling from Webpack v1 to Webpack v5, alongside multiple Docker enhancements

• Senior Software Engineer, Gush

  May, 2018 - Apr, 201911 months

  First engineering hire

  • Led all frontend development

  • Rapidly learnt basic Python including leveraging Trio to combine data from Google, Yelp, & Foursquare

  • Created a basic agile-like process to centralize and organize development

• Senior Software Engineer, Virtru

  Jun, 2015 - Apr, 20182 years 10 months

  • Led development of Google Vault Extension and Google Drive file proxy service acting as a model for future projects

  • Refactored and helped develop VJWT, a JWT spec with enhanced security features

  • Integrated in a FIPS compliant crypto library to meet the security needs of customers

  • Managed and mentored team members and contractors as a tech lead

  • Rewrote and extended key parts of the DLP rules engine, key to Virtru's success, and enhanced handling of complex violations

  • Developed voltron to allow for building a single extension from multiple independent repos

  • Created new OU functionality that included new db schema, associated documentation for schema changes, API updates, frontend architecture improvements, CSS and associated templates

  • Improved our Secure Reader loading performance, reduced bugs, and added a whitelabeling solution

  • Ran our knowledge sharing sessions

  • Led second round technical interviews

  • Contributed to several open source projects eslint, webpack, spirit-js, and more

• UI/Software Engineer, SPARC, an Agile Systems Delivery Hub of Booz Allen Hamilton

  Jun, 2012 - Jan, 20152 years 7 months

  Worked on in house products and outsourced products

  • Led the second phase of new feature development for OpsAssure, a scheduling and task management app

  • Handled all video player development and on Stre.am, which led to contributions to video.js

  • Architected, implemented, launched, and maintained a product for Core Care Medical

  • Contributed to new architecture decisions, refactored crucial code, and ported MySQL to MongoDB on 520

  • Mentored and taught a QA JavaScript and automation

  • Rapidly learnt and contributed to 520 ensuring a successful release to the VA, while providing mentoring and support to others

  • Filled the role of domain expert for Stre.am

• Interface Engineer II, PeopleMatter powered by Snagajob

  Sep, 2010 - Jun, 20121 year 9 months

  • One of two interface engineers responsible for frontend development

  • Implemented SquishIt, an open source JavaScript & CSS minifier, and created a higher level abstraction to streamline internal use

  • Learnt, introduced, and used LESS through Chirpy to improve readability and maintainability of CSS

  • Refactored and fixed several open source projects used internally, including SquishIt

  • Actively developed cross-browser compatible styling in IE7 through IE9, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome

  • Architected css architecture and hierarchy alongside general JavaScript practices for the frontend

• Software Engineer II, Blackbaud

  Jun, 2007 - Sep, 20103 years 3 months

  First batch of engineering hires from RIT leading to additional RIT new grad hires

  • Acted as a JavaScript mentor, reviewing code as it was checked in and advocating best practices

  • Took over as lead developer and improved our e-commerce product in multiple areas

  • Created an extensible shopping cart framework, used across teams & products, as the basis for all payment processing

  • Exclusively handled production issues, such as data corruption, experienced by clients for five months

  • Developed and implemented brand new functionality with server-side code, client-side code, and SQL

  • Introduced jQuery, leading to cleaner, more compatible code for the product

  • Led the Web Accessibility Initiative to support the needs of our clients

  • Learnt and used VB.Net and ASP.Net successfully without any previous experience with either

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