Notable projects include:

• Writing the entire US tax code and programming related tax calculators in Ruby (learned a lot about AMT taxation)

• Integrating centralized data archiving across all our communications channels including Slack, email, and our homegrown messaging system for FINRA and SEC compliance

• Implementing various tools for both clients and financial planners including data visualization interfaces to compare and model tax burden scenarios and health insurance plans based on planned utilization.

Worked on various client projects, including an inventory display system for a vehicle sales company and data analytics for a research project and eventually published book. Ended up doing a lot of the project management and coordinating efforts with other freelancers.

I built whatever they told me to, from making UI changes on the existing research data management platform to building and launching a new product for our software suite. dscout is a growing company whose engineering team truly believes on using the best tool for the job, which allowed me to work with a varied array of technologies including React.js, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, GraphQL, WebRTC, the Twilio video and SMS APIs, and 3rd party audio inscription APIs. I was involved in initiatives to incorporate machine learning and user segmentation into the platform, as well as wider platform revisions addressing racial and gender inclusion.

Additionally, I made a lot of friends and got to work with some of the coolest and most interesting people I've ever met!

I was hired as a front-end developer but then our main engineer abandoned ship and suddenly I was the only full-time engineer on the team. I was thereby tasked with building out our Ruby on Rails full-stack application with some React.js on the front-end, React Native mobile work, and what can barely pass as DevOps regarding our AWS resources.

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be successfully convincing the team to let me take a couple weeks to migrate our most complex user interfaces into React (actually rewriting the interfaces was a relative cakewalk), since trying to build and maintain a dashboard and forms with HAML and jQuery felt like using a cheese grater on my face.

I spent most of this time getting my Ruby code corrected by engineers who were infinitely more competent than I may ever be. I learned a lot in this time so it's a shame it had to be cut short.