Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
United States
Building a new platform from the ground up to make life easier for content creators.
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2023
• Orchestrated the architecture and implementation of a Next.js/React web frontend for a fully-featured business-to-business tourist visa web application supporting 500K+ travelers, including extensive no-code configurability by internal operations. Devised and executed a data migration strategy for the transition of data for 1M+ customers from a NoSQL to PostgreSQL platform to handle scaling and architectural issues.
• Slashed media bandwidth costs by 50% by steering the migration from a Strapi CMS to Prismic's CMS platform.
• Reduced Vercel usage and cost metrics by 25% to 50%, with higher reductions over time due to consistent month-by-month growth in popularity.
• Implemented HTTP caching and client-side caching methodologies, resulting in a notable reduction of 1 to 2 seconds per page load for most users.
• Engineered an optimization and refactoring initiative for web content to elevate user experience.
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
Portland, Oregon, United States
• Utilized Node, Kubernetes, and RabbitMQ to integrate with diagnostic lab services through online processing of test results for at-home COVID tests and other at-home testing kits. Enabled white-label testing services and integrations by employing HL7 and FIHR health care data standards for data transfer within Truepill systems and external partners.
• Spearheaded the heightened adoption of automated processes and testing methodologies, fostering greater developer confidence in project outcomes.
• Streamlined and optimized business-critical backend systems to simplify the integration of external partner integrations.
• Applied React and Node frameworks to develop full-stack features across multiple backend frameworks.
• Performed improved automated testing/verification processes and gained positive reception from fellow developers.
• Designed code-based integrated documentation generation by simplifying integration processes for external partners and contributing to user-friendly experience.
2018 — 2020
2018 — 2020
Portland, Oregon Area
• Administered the end-to-end development of features using a comprehensive mix of React, Angular, and Java for both frontend and backend frameworks.
• Created new application features from end to end, including S3 file handling, database storage and retrieval, and the development of complex multi-step user interfaces.
• Led the implementation of automated infrastructure to replace manual processes and elevate code quality.
• Realized time savings of 15-30 mins/day per developer by restructuring a manual, multi-part build process for the website into a single integrated, automated build process using the Parcel bundler and Node tooling, and implementing automatic linting, error checking, and unit testing.
• Refactored frontend systems and data retrieval mechanisms for retrieval and manipulation of multi-million-row datasets.
2017 — 2018
2017 — 2018
• Designed the architecture for a sophisticated React- and Redux-based single-page-application web frontend, with a system including persistent optimized WebSocket connections and handling for suboptimal network conditions.
• Innovatively created a React-based language parser and domain-specific rendering system from the ground up to empower data input workers in crafting complex UI designs without the need for programming knowledge.
Education
Portland State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Portland Community College