Backend-focused engineer leading a team of 5 developers migrating a production API from Django to NestJS (Node.js), including greenfield database schema and endpoint design, with emphasis on high-scale performance and reliability.

Key accomplishments:

• Led a full rewrite of a legacy Django API to NestJS, including database schema redesign, endpoint redesign, and zero-downtime data migration, enabling long-planned product features

• Led a successful MVP launch with minimal post-release defects

• Designed and implemented a high-throughput, fault-tolerant data import system

• Designed and shipped multiple Kafka-driven asynchronous features to improve decoupling and efficiency

• Added extensive observability making troubleshooting easy

• Developed full-stack applications using Vue and AngularJS for front-end and Node, Python, PostgreSQL for back-end.

• Designed reusable components and state management patterns to enhance application performance.

• Achieved a 20x speed optimization for backend endpoints, significantly improving user experience.

• Documented TypeScript best practices to streamline development processes and improve team efficiency.

Extended and maintained 200K lines-of-code legacy web app built with JQuery and Backbone. Architected and developed our future client written with Angular and TypeScript. Maintained Jenkins script that builds, tests, and deploys web apps using Helm, Kubernetes, and Docker.

Developed CRM using Vue, Node, and PostgreSQL. Scripted ETL process in Python to hydrate our CRM data. Developed mobile-native web app with Ionic.

Developed web software that integrates with our ECM product, and is written with our in-house JavaScript framework that uses JQuery and BackboneJS