Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, United States
• Built and deployed scalable backend services using Node.js, TypeScript, and Express to handle 10K+ daily API requests, implementing response caching and optimizing query paths to sustain <150ms average latency
• Optimized database performance with PostgreSQL indexing strategies and Redis response caching, reducing slow query frequency by 40% and improving throughput across the analytics platform
• Designed RESTful APIs powering iQ4’s internal analytics platform, enabling real-time skill-data ingestion from partner institutions and improving data availability for product teams by 30%
• Enforced code quality in a 4-engineer Agile team via Jest unit and integration tests, increasing coverage from 55% to 80% and reducing release bugs by 25% through GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines