As a Senior Software Engineer on the Customer Experience team at Home Chef, my day-to-day work is similar to previous roles; however, there is greater responsibility to deliver highly effective, maintainable code at a pace that meets business demands. The Senior Engineer role also emphasizes pairing with others and serving as a critical voice on the team during feature development.

Some major wins include:

𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥-𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞, including new backend data modeling, service-layer logic, API updates, and customer-facing pricing calculations.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 “𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞” 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬.

𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 that have generated increased revenue for the business.

Spearheaded an engineer-led, biweekly “tech debt refinement” meeting to scope, ticket, and estimate codebase enhancements. The format proved so successful that it was later adopted by peer teams.

Platform upgrades across our primary technology stacks as part of a small, six-month engineering team. This work included a 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐫-𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐮𝐩𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞, extensive dependency updates, improved resource utilization, and infrastructure reallocation to better support primary database replicas.

Participation on a squad that revamped our engineering interview process, involving significant documentation and process changes.

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These accomplishments span backend infrastructure (Rails) and front-end systems across the Home Chef web application (React) and mobile app (React Native), emphasizing well-tested, scalable code and a “leave it better than you found it” mindset.

After my promotion to SEII, I transitioned to the CX team while continuing to work with the same core stack, adding React Native for mobile feature work.

Some key achievements include: Rails 5 → 6 migration, full-stack modeling for opt-ins/add-ons/promotions, major database truncations yielding 30–40% storage savings, and enabling landscape mode on mobile tablets through React Native updates.

Built and maintained a wide variety of internal tools with Ruby on Rails and ActiveAdmin.

Contributed to React applications using Redux, functional components, and modern JavaScript tooling.

Created the foundation for a meal comparison tool and modernized the e-commerce menu management system with Redux and functional React patterns, strengthening my fluency with production-scale applications.

Assisted instructors in facilitating a learning environment for bootcamp students, including reviewing Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code.

Served as a tech lead for bootcamp graduates, supporting technical interview preparation through whiteboarding, project work, and career coaching.

Co-led a post-bootcamp technical interview prep course, planning and delivering multiple hours of curriculum for each session.

Team member in HERE’s next generation 3D mapping data creation. My contributions included updates to a vanilla javascript dashboard where mapped "tiles" of the world were submitted for final publishing. I also worked on pipelines that ingested and refined those tiles which were used by other parts of the organization.

Some tools used in the development process included:

• JS, Scala, AWS -> Redshift/S3/EC2/EMR, Jenkins, Gerrit, & Jira.

Workflow involved Agile methodologies employed by Scrum. Projects were iterated on in two week sprints where tangible features were designed, coded, unit and acceptance tested.