Designed and implemented innovative solutions using Ruby on Rails, third-party APIs, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL to automate tax operations, expand local tax coverage, and improve accuracy for small business tax filings.

Led the initiative to expand Gusto’s tax support by adding 850+ local taxes, marking the most significant addition since 2015, enhancing the platform's ability by supporting a broader range of local tax jurisdictions.

Utilized Regex to reconcile tax data across multiple systems and databases, ensuring consistency and accuracy.

Engineered custom scripts using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL to automate bulk tax addition processes, significantly reducing hours of manual effort, minimizing human error, and increasing overall efficiency.

Implemented unit tests using RSpec and JUnit to ensure code reliability and maintain high test coverage.

Led a cross-team effort to phase out a legacy codebase, systematically removing its dependencies from core systems to streamline maintainability, reduce technical debt, and enhance platform stability.

Integrated a third-party geolocation API into the tax platform to verify customer addresses with high precision, ensuring the correct application of local tax rates based on exact jurisdictions.

Regularly participated in pair programming sessions to review and refine code, fostering a culture of quality and collaboration, where domain-specific knowledge and best practices were shared with team members.

Revamped in-house systems with JavaScript, React, GraphQL, and Ruby on Rails to improve internal workflows, enable seamless data retrieval, and create more efficient tools for tax processing and compliance management.

Invented monitoring and alerting tools to detect elusive bugs, diagnose performance bottlenecks, optimize slow GraphQL queries, and ensure seamless system operations during critical tax deadlines.

Spearheaded solutions utilizing JavaScript/Java Spring Boot/NodeJS/Ruby on Rails/NextJS/Typescript/React.js and Vue.js/Angular/AWS/PostgreSQL stack to optimize the performance and functionality of the Shopify based platform.

Managed and enhanced CanvasPrints.com, integrating new features to improve user satisfaction and optimize the customer experience, directly contributing to a 0.3% higher customer satisfaction reviews and a 6% increase in CRO.

Led end-to-end development of the scalable project 'EPOD,' involving architecture design, database creation, controllers, React components, and RESTful APIs to interact with each other and enhance the user experience.

Introduced an advanced automated testing strategy for new deployments, resulting in a 20% reduction in post-deployment issues, ensuring uninterrupted operation of critical website features during continuous updates.

Developed and implemented backend features and UI/UX for a website system enabling efficient product management for Administrators and empowering Merchants to manage their products and dedicated web spaces.

Leveraged Hibernate ORM to streamline database interactions and ensure efficient data management for the platform

Integrated Sidekiq to manage background job processing, enabling asynchronous execution of time-consuming tasks, reducing server load, and ensuring that critical operations were handled seamlessly in the background

Appointed to keep the engineering team current with industry best practices and emerging technologies to integrate the latest advancements onto all projects, resulting in a 5% increase in efficiency and accelerated project completion.

Designed back-end functionality for user-friendly websites using NodeJS, Typescript, React, Java, Angular, and Ruby.

Designed back-end functionality for user-friendly websites using NodeJS, Typescript, React, Java, Angular, and Ruby.

Crafted a backend application that dynamically generates Zoom meetings/webinars when new meetings are inserted into a MySQL database, saving hundreds of hours of manual meeting creation.

Developed a web application that allows users to import an Excel document of meeting attendees and automatically generates and emails certificates for each attendee, saving hours of manual certificate creation.

Oversaw client relationships across the development lifecycle, monitoring progress, upgrading UI/UX, deployed applications using AWS, and delivering feedback to ensure the successful completion of projects.

Initiated a MySQL database for record management while using Java, Ruby, and AWS to engage with the system.

Facilitated front-end website design and modeling with JavaScript/React/NodeJS for an improved user experience.

Diagnosed and resolved user/software problems, implementing solutions to boost company efficiency and customer satisfaction.