I am a former journalism major adapting my skills in communication and intentional composition to a career in software engineering.
Experience
2022 — Now
2021 — 2022
2021 — 2022
Designed and implemented frameworkless frontend to support initial launch in July 2021 of Pando application to customers.
Migrated entire frontend architecture to Vue 3 and Vite in 3 weeks post-MVP launch.
Planned, scoped, and implemented full stack features including self and colleague assessments, assessment calibrations, 360 feedback, employee deletion for GDPR, and more.
Provided interim engineering leadership in early stages of MVP development.
2016 — 2021
2016 — 2021
Greater Seattle Area
Architected and implemented the MVP version of a flexible yet powerful machine learning platform to support applied machine learning features (including diverse use cases like NLP, binary classification, etc.) at Qualtrics using a system of AWS SageMaker and custom Dockerized components. Also defined the technical north star for the future of the machine learning platform.
Built features to supplement an intelligent, intuitive, and delightful statistical analysis software called Stats iQ using Python (numpy, pandas, TensorFlow) and JavaScript (NodeJS, React, Redux) backed by various datastores (Redis, MySQL) with a team of five other engineers. Some highlights: deprecating and rewriting a crosstabulation (Crosstabs) product, localization, a variable creation workflow (including variable bucketing and formula processing).
Designed, wrote, and maintained an operational tool used to monitor background job failures and other operational status indicators across multiple data centers in a single frontend interface written in JavaScript with React and Node, with data replicated in MongoDB clusters per data center.
2013 — 2016
Indiana University Bloomington
Led a project-focused lab section of C335 Computer Structures each week to teach multi-layer computer structure concepts so students can follow their C programs to assembly language and machine code on STM32 hardware.
Debugged and improved student code to be run on an ARM Cortex-M4 processor and interact with various peripherals, including an LCD display, Wii Nunchuk, and audio amplifier.
Taught fundamental computer science concepts like recursion, simple data structures, and professional coding practices in a weekly lab section of C211 Intro to Computer Science.
Mentored beginner to intermediate programmers as an upperclassman resource while fostering enthusiasm and inclusion during office hours and lab time.
Provided constructive feedback on programming assignments and exams to help students improve.
Named Undergraduate Instructor of the Year in 2015-2016 for the department of Computer Science.
2013 — 2015
2013 — 2015
Indiana University Bloomington
ServeIT is a group of IU Bloomington students who provide IT services to non-profit organizations in the Bloomington community.
(Fall 2015) Implemented a WordPress redesign of the Monroe County History Center’s website with six other team members to accept donations, volunteer applications, and venue reservations online, showcase artifact collections, and promote special events.
(Fall 2013) Directed a design team to create visually appealing and functional database interfaces for two nonprofit clients in the Bloomington community.
(Summer 2013) Collaborated with team members to finalize a Drupal website for the Leadership in Bloomington-Monroe County Alumni Association, while independently learning Drupal and CiviCRM through research and experimentation.
Education
Indiana University Bloomington
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
2012 — 2016