Writing backend services for the Trading team

• Spun up the companies first backend Java services

• Hired and onboarded our second backend engineer

• Wrote developer documentation around our API standards, architecture decision records (ADRS), API resource request/response payloads through Spring REST Docs, and OpenAPI Definition

• Integrated our authentication system with Google OIDC and wrote an ABAC authorization system through Spring Security

• Wrote Java services to connect to AWS SES, AWS Lambda, AWS S3, Google Drive, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Jira Cloud

• Wrote CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to run linting, type checking, unit tests, code coverage reports, and deployments to ECS

• Mentored QA engineer in writing maintainable code for our Playwright E2E suite for our API and UI

Accomplishments

• Supported Warby Parker's point of sales (POS) system and doctor's portal used across 150+ stores in the US and Canada

• Led a project to create a Frame Style Assistant application that helps retail employees find the perfect frame for each customer

• Facilitated discussions on tooling, code style, and deployment across our 10 frontend applications

• Partnered with design to create a design system for our retail applications and component library to centralize our code and gain consistency across our applications

• Created documentation to onboard new employees onto our eco-system

• Wrote a migration plan to replace all legacy APIs with Warby's new unified API suite

Technologies used:

• Javascript: React, Redux, Typescript, Emotion, Testing Library, Storybook

• Python: Tornado, SQLAlchemy

• Databases: PostgresSQL

• Infrastructure: CircleCI, AWS

Extra:

• Gave talks on module resolution, Node's debugger, and Typescript at our Frontend Guild

• Ran a book club on The Phoenix Project to help our team talk about process

• Participated in Inclusion in Tech activities

• Created a "Frame quiz" to help employees learn all of Warby Parker's frame names

Technologies used:

• Java: Spring, Maven, Hibernate, Project Reactor

• Javascript: Typescript, React, Redux, Node

• Databases: Oracle, Cassandra

• Infrastructure: Jenkins, AWS, New Relic, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Solr

Extra:

• Co-led a Design System working group to unify our internal applications and speed up development

• Mentored a manual QA member in programming and resulted in a 6 month automation effort

• Mentored a designer in frontend development and resulted in her publishing production code

• Participated in a book club around the book Inspired by Marty Cagen to improve product development in our org

• Ran a Scrum Working Group for our department

• Ran #RandomCoffees to increase collaboration in our department

• Participated in Girls Who Code, Code.org, OC Grip and other volunteer programs

• Co-teach upper division ICS 161 "Game Engines Lab" course with Collin Helstien.

• Develop 10 week coursework and lectures