Experience
2023 — Now
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2023
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Client: FinTech Startup - Customer Rewards Gamification
Technologies Used: Java, Spring Boot with JPA, CockroachDB, GraphQL, React.Js, Python, Databricks, Datadog
• Developed the reward functionality across multiple backend systems, which involves immediately granting customers a “game” that can be played for cash or gift cards upon purchase. Solution uses a GraphQL gateway backed by multiple Spring Boot applications in an event-driven microservice architecture in AWS EKS.
• Designed and implemented a facade pattern to simplify underlying subsystem support for third-party payment integrations, ensured idempotency across microservices, and Ensured action idempotency across Amazon SQS microservices
• Reduced database interaction time 50% by addressing N+1 querying issues in critical path systems
• Created data visualization using Python in Databricks to tune the rules and payout of the rewards game.
Project: Internal Intellectual Property Development
Technologies Used: TypeScript, SCSS, Vue.Js, Java, Spring Boot with JPA, Postgres
• Enhanced a labor scheduling application, which provides visibility into people and the teams they work on, by implementing new functionality, updating dependencies, and working across the full stack.
Client: F100 Financial Institution - Labor Scheduling Application
Technologies Used: Kotlin, React.Js, Postgres, Spring Boot
• Designed and developed a labor forecasting application to manage client’s labor expenses across multiple dimensions such as location, associate/contractor ratio, division, and cross-division teams.
• Worked alongside project stakeholders to promote the application leading to funding an enterprise wide version of the application
2020 — 2023
2020 — 2023
Richmond, Virginia, United States
2020 — 2020
2020 — 2020
Leveraged technical skillset to identify and automate an inefficient, manual task by developing an application (Python & VBA) to systemically validate data feed
Collaborated between multiple work streams to integrate with new or previously unused, existing architecture
Led solutioning meetings with client that sold 1200 hours of additional work to build new capabilities under urgent mission critical deadlines
2019 — 2020
2019 — 2020
Arlington, VA
Education
Virginia Tech
Bachelor's degree
2015 — 2019