Culture IQ is a startup that builds solutions to enable HR teams to monitor culture and employee engagement. In addition to development and optimization work, I have authored comprehensive documentation (features, how-to guides, etc.), provide internal tech talks (stats, caching), contribute to PR reviews and pair coding, and serve as an internal evangelist for unit testing.

Project work has included:

• Collaborated with the data science team to integrate statistics with survey reporting, achieved by translating math formulas to Numpy code.

• Debugged and tuned search relevance for comment search by exploring the ElasticSearch Explain API.

• Developed the employee portal in Angular and Python/Django used by clients to upload company directories for sending employee surveys.

• Contributed to performance optimizations including query tuning and database and in-memory caching that reduced slow web requests (5s+) by ~70%. Leveraged Redis caching for popular app features (user permissions, survey reporting), modified core survey results code to only compute data segments being viewed to reduce computation ~70%, and modified calculation of hierarchical survey results to reduce computation by ~10%.

WatchMaxx is an e-commerce luxury watch retailer. My work at WatchMaxx focused primarily on their e-commerce presence and some internal systems.

Project highlights:

• Developed and integrated React components into a legacy PHP inventory management application, including the back-end API and data-access layer.

• Contributed to rewrite and feature enhancement of watchmaxx.com ecommerce site.

• Implemented Solr for search to reduce gallery filtering load time from ~5s to <150ms.

• Wrote cart logic with Scala and Slick, integrated multiple payments into checkout, rearchitected system to enable simple additions for new payment methods, and implemented client-side code in React.