Senior SWE with Google.org, working on helping residents apply for public benefits with CiviForm, a tool we built with Exygy and the City of Seattle.

Previously on Maps and Local Search

As an engineer on the Customer Success team, I've worked with federal, state, and local governments to build out custom solutions on top of Socrata's Publica Open Data Platform.

I've worked with governments ranging from the cities of Seattle and Dallas, to the states of New Jersey and Michigan, to the European Commission.

These solutions have been built with Jekyll, React, Redux, Ruby, and other technologies.

I've also given a talk on being aware of biases in data when using that data for decision making.

As a member of the data migration team, I worked with the intellectual property offices at labs and universities to migrate IP data from their databases to a new system. In addition to expanding my SQL expertise, to complete successful migrations I:

• Migrated the 10th largest university IP portfolio to a new vendor’s system.

• Customized vendor’s system to match the client’s workflow.

• Bridged communication gaps between the vendor’s team and clients.

As a member of the IHPS software team, I completed several projects designed to improve the engineers' visibility into the systems they were designing. All projects began as open-ended research into a problem and, by rapidly iterating prototypes, concluded with a simple, intuitive tool that solved it. By carefully considering the needs of the team, usability of the tools, and maintainability of my code, I built tools I was proud of.

More specifically, I:

• Built tooling that reduced time to debug core app platform issues by 40%.

• Built a dashboard that aggregates WebPress printing performance data,

enabling both engineering and management to easily track project status.

• Performed self-directed research into and testing of the message queuing system that facilitates communication between the various internal services of the WebPress.

• Developed tooling to provide visibility into this messaging system and help diagnose issues with specific components.

For these projects I used ActiveMQ, Javascript, HTML, Jquery, Fabric, and Flot.js.