Experience
2020 — Now
2020 — Now
Owner of service managing geospatial data regarding customer-processing requirements
• Developed and optimized Node app inherited from contract workers' prototype
• Organized and associated data imported from several sources including Monday and CSV files
• Drastically reduced codebase size and development time by introducing abstractions and generator patterns
• Augmented the quality of our dataset by importing and relating data from external sources
• Led effort to rewrite inherited service and oversaw feature-by-feature migration to new service
• Implemented complex Mongo queries to analyze large datasets via interactive dashboards
Contributor to sales platform for home solar panel installation
• Designed and implemented full-stack features with a team of 15 developers on Node/React app
• Led integrations with many external programs including SalesForce, DocuSign and Aurora
• Established system-wide patterns for error handling to painlessly communicate errors between several programs
• Created a clean database interface from a fragmented SQL client to resemble database clients elsewhere on the platform
• Participated in weeklong on-call rotations monitoring service performance and resolving customer issues
2019 — 2020
2019 — 2020
Seattle
Service-oriented engineer managing robust microservice to parse jobseeker resumes
Managed migration of resume parsing functionality from legacy monolith to sleek microservice
• Owner of microservice serving over 500k daily requests and ten clients with diverse use cases
• Ported and refactored a subset of functionality from neglected codebase into succinct, maintainable microservice to improve code delivery time and developer quality of life
• Oversaw client-by-client traffic migration to new microservice
• Balanced task prioritization between developing new features and addressing tech debt
• Managed deployments and resources across multiple datacenters via internal tooling and Jenkins
• Configured logging, monitoring and alerting via tools like Kibana, Sentry and Datadog
Implemented and analyzed A/B tests to increase account creation
• Implemented full-stack features across Java Spring backend and React frontend
• Collaborated with product managers, UX designers and other development teams across the globe
• Worked with a team of 30 developers in technical design and code review
Developer first responder and release manager
• Participated in quarterly duties responding to events across four team-owned codebases
• Investigated and reverted breaking changes to new deployments
• Documented issues and engaged in retrospective meetings after completion of weeklong assignment
• Supervised and enhanced brittle text internationalization pipeline
• Participated in weekly service reliability reviews with a team of 30 developers
• Engaged in annual fix-it and bug bash sprints
2016 — 2018
2016 — 2018
Greater Seattle Area
Node REST API backed by MySQL
• Design platform-wide patterns for routes, initialization, and database population
• Write scalable workflows to handle large datasets using common methods like batching and streaming
• Create atomic tasks from imprecise feature requests for a team of three developers
UI with Vue and Vuex
• Design and implement pages to display large datasets using tools like D3
• Implement major features including Oath2 flow, RBAC, and a cacheing layer using IndexedDb
• Engage in feature and UX oriented design discussions
Job scheduler for Hadoop written in Java
• Schedule jobs based on responses from Hadoop's ResourceManager REST API
Storm monitor written with Node and Vue
• Request metrics and logs for topologies, components, and workers from Storm's UI REST API
2016 — 2016
Portland, Oregon Area
2015 — 2015
2015 — 2015
My client Zan requested a spooky website to display book reviews.
<a href="http://zanreads.info/">zanreads.info</a>
"At a time when website design is professionally soulless, Anki HG has developed a radical new aesthetic. Whimsical, sardonic, rawly authentic -- Anki HG's work is pure art."
• Zan of ZanReads
Education
Code Fellows
Certification in Full-stack JavaScript
2016 — 2016
Willamette University
Bachelor’s Degree
2011 — 2015