Highlights:

• Planned and developed a solution for automatic SSN and EIN verification at scale by interfacing with the newly developed IRS API. This service operated in compliance with IRS's safeguards such as a daily quote of "similar" requests, and custom authorization workflow.

• Developed pipelines for the creation of 1099B and 1099MISC forms and their IRS FIRE file counterparts. This was done through both modifications of legacy Python code as well as a complete rewrite for certain forms in Typescript using React-pdf (would recommend).

• Established patterns of data validation through the use of Zod parsing and opaque types which is now used throughout the company.

• Helped develop cross-organization CircleCI deploy patterns using Jinja to allow for multi-account configuration via a yaml config file.

Highlights:

• Overhauled Twitter and Facebook ingestion pipelines to use newly available metrics from Twitter's early-access V2 API and Facebook's V10 API.

• Resolved multi-hop timeouts for very large requests by refactoring the pipeline to use Transfer-Encoding: chunked.

• Solved Scala's case class limit of 22 properties (which had unknowingly been reached on a core data model) by switching to a Trait implementation with an implicit conversion to a case class. This solution offered a drop-in replacement that allowed the continued use of pattern matching.

• Launched campaign to make open-source contributions to the Twitter4s (Twitter for Scala) library.

• Aided in the deprecation of Angular.js by rebuilding the dashboard in react.

Highlights:

• Initiated the transition from Perl w/ CGI to TypeScript w/ Express, using Nginx to serve up new components as they became available.

• Allowed for the deprecation of IE11 by replacing a homebrew Internet Explorer plugin, used to access the filesystem from the browser, with a thin client offering the same utility but compatible with all browsers.

• Developed AWS infrastructure using SAM and CloudFormation to open up migration potential in the future.

• Introduced and standardized development and productivity tools such as JetBrains WebStorm and YouTrack.

• Dockerized the build processes of integrated components such as CKEditor and EditInPlace

• Represented Lucidoc at career fairs and Meetups, researched candidates and conducted interviews.

Highlights:

• Mentored and trained new coaches in proper instruction techniques.

• Taught a small army of children from ages 6-16 Python, JavaScript, Java, and Scratch.

• Established a standardized curriculum for new students to create online games.

During my time at Bellevue College I would often host free classes and workshops for students who wanted to learn additional skills and frameworks. These classes would range from 'Introduction to Python,' to 'Express.js authentication using Passport.' A friend turned me on to TheCoderSchool which was looking for tutors so I took the job. I now teach weekly game development classes in Scratch for groups of children ranging from 6-12. I also hold two-on-one sessions for students looking to learn the basics of Java, Python, or JavaScript as well as Unity game development or 3D modeling using Blender.