• Converted high level ideas from stakeholders into a web app and services to meet product requirements while ensuring future scalability

• Designed extensible database schemas to provide flexibility for new feature development

• Developed framework for back‑end service to enable developers to work quickly and ergonomically across the monolith

• Dynamically generated Open API schemas from REST endpoints to create clients for both internal and external consumption of our APIs

• Deployed dockerized services into the cloud with Kubernetes to ensure high availability through horizontal scalability

• Leveraged Redis and websockets to enable bidirectional communication between client and server to enable real‑time updates to client

• Led company‑wide testing overhaul increasing speed of tests by 7x while simultaneously improving reliability and lowering costs

• Improved our public internationalization package by introducing support for dynamic language switching to enable server‑side rendering

• Collaborated with external vendor Translated to update our translation pipeline to move to new API version and launch 5 new languages

• Modernized tech stack by migrating REST stack to GraphQL allowing for more fine grained requests and responses

• Refactored service within monolith allowing multiple teams to leverage existing features across new services

• Took customer feedback to improve our open source public API by adding features, fixing bugs, and improving documentation

• Successfully deployed new public facing features in Java and JavaScript

• Primary developer for high impact login service that received millions of daily users

• Ensured code met National Federation of the Blind’s standards to increase accessibility

• Wrote end‑to‑end tests using Selenium and Jest to increase service’s resilience to human error

• Published meta‑data to Kafka streams used by cross‑functional teams