• Re-engineered class based React components into functional components utilizing React and Redux hooks to improve codebase readability for an internal administration tool.

• Increased Jest unit test coverage to ensure functionality of Node.js backend controllers to increase the reliability of a public site serving 150k users annually.

• Carried out code reviews for engineers, ensuring engineering best practices, and led technical lectures for engineers on topics including the JavaScript DOM, React, Redux, and Authentication.

• Mentored teams of engineers through the complete Software Development Life Cycle of an open source product to ensure effective collaboration, agile methodology, and proper workflow from ideation to deployment.

• Conducted technical interviews to assess JavaScript knowledge, technical communication skills, problem solving ability and overall company culture fit of applicants.

• Constructed a React based, web browser interface with reusable components to display urgently relevant Apache Kafka broker metric information efficiently

• Integrated Adobe’s React Aria library of hooks to create easily modifiable React components that are more compatible with screen readers and keyboard navigation to provide an accessible user experience

• Created a Jest, Jest-Axe, and React Testing Library to run a parallel suite of unit tests to ensure functionality and reliability of new features, accuracy of React component rendering, and to catch fundamental accessibility issues

• Utilized Docker to construct a containerized Apache Kafka server with synthetic client workloads used as an internal tool capable of being deployed on a variety of operating systems

• Built Figma mockups to allow for easy iteration of application design and establish clear style objectives

• Managed Jira and Confluence workspaces to organize scrum sprints and maintain proper Agile workflow