We provide books and other reading materials to incarcerated individuals in North Carolina and Alabama facilities with limited library resources. As a full stack software engineer, my role is in developing BellBooks: an application used for maintaining records of outgoing packages and automating administrative work. This was created to help us eliminate a six-month backlog of requests by removing often repeated clerical tasks that were time-consuming and error-prone to provide a fast, consistent solution. This application features automatic book lookup via scanner, an intuitive package and invoice generation flow, and a simplified process for auditing and modifying existing packages.

I support this project in a full-stack capacity, though my key responsibility is in leading front-end initiatives, which includes evolving the application and incorporating changes uncovered through user interviews as well as driving a re-launch of the front-end SvelteKit, a modern frontend JavaScript framework. I also work with onboarding new independent contributors to the development workflow who are often new to either web development or their engineering career.

Learn more about Prison Books Collective here: https://prisonbooks.info/about

Backend/Infrastructure Engineer, Release Engineering team

• Entered Meta by working to integrate a newer, faster, and more configurable framework for mobile releases by converting Jupiter Notebooks to server code

• Initiated a cross-platform project to improve the usefulness of operator-facing signals in our CI/CD pipelines for mobile releases

• Created a full-stack interface (Hack-lang & React) and process for initiating feedback loops between release operators and signal authors to minimize mobile releases going to public with issues

• Laid initial groundwork for allowing mobile releases to be automated by reducing signal noise and creating a datasource for tracking faulty or inconsistent release candidates with operator feedback

Android Engineer, Messenger Sharing Team

• Ensured user safety through thoughtful integration of reporting accessibility in our team's features

• Focused on respecting user privacy by limiting sharing capabilities and restricting internal visibility into features relating to end-to-end encryption and community messaging

• Worked across the stack maintaining Java and Kotlin source files on the client, and integrated backend Hack(PHP-based), GraphQL, and CQL (SQL with C-based optimizations) to enable core features and improve latency for users

Backend Engineer, Marketing Tech (Google Shopping, Product Feeds)

• Led [Go/Kafka] Google Shopping project responsible for approximately 30% of internal revenue and mitigated policy issues/downtime through improved data processing & caching; expanded countries of operation from approximately 14 to 20

• Helped to establish GoLang best practices, focusing on reliability and documentation through automated testing

• Re-architected [Go/AWS] software responsible for pushing product catalog to third party vendors to avoid losing these revenue streams

• Worked with small businesses and individuals to create websites, process and aggregate disorganized data, and create scripts or widgets to automate elements of their work

• Developed keen sense for creating readable, maintainable, extensible code and adhering to good git/VC hygiene

• Created Single-Page Applications using Vanilla HTML/CSS/JavaScript as well as Angular.js, Angular2+, Ionic Framework, and Electron

• Managed client online presence through Square, GSuite, and Google Firebase

• Provided asset creation and photo editing using tools like Affinity Designer/Photo and Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop/Animate