Hi, I’m Mariah, a Senior Software Engineer with over 5 years of experience crafting innovative and impactful solutions in the tech industry. I love finding creative ways to bring a little joy to someone’s day through code.
Experience
2022 — 2025
Portland, Oregon, United States
• Contributed to the development of a full-stack e-commerce application that evolved from a greenfield project into a mature application, streamlining online grocery order management for store leads and associates in over 2,400 stores.
• Promoted from software engineer to senior software engineer after 2 years of driving team improvements, proactively identifying areas for enhancement, and consistently prioritizing customer needs.
• Led the initiative to enhance application accessibility, implementing features like dark mode, improved keyboard navigation, and integrating TestCafe with Deque Axe for automated testing, all aimed at meeting WCAG 2.1AA standards.
• Collaborated with the QA team to transition integration tests to Playwright, improving test automation performance by reducing test execution time by roughly 30% and leveraging its advanced debugging tools.
• Led cross-functional initiatives as feature lead and primary point of contact, helping define technical implementations, writing and reviewing user stories in JIRA, and supporting cross-functional testing efforts in pilot stores.
• Served as team representative on the Standards Committee, collaborating on the development of the technology division’s standards and helping prepare for technical audits.
2020 — 2022
2020 — 2022
Portland, Oregon, United States
• Coordinated cross-functional teams to integrate Microsoft PowerBI reporting into the application, delivering actionable metrics on labor utilization, productivity, order and item fulfillment and analysis, enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Worked with cross-functional teams and senior engineers to optimize application performance by implementing a RESTful API with the CQRS pattern, enabling rapid scalability to over 2,000 stores.
• Facilitated knowledge sharing efforts by onboarding new team members, creating technical design documents, and consistently updating team documentation.
2019 — 2020
2019 — 2020
Portland, Oregon Area
• Full stack contributor to yield management team developing products used by data scientists and analysts to set and analyze rates and reservations.
• Shipped greenfield project within six months of hire. Productionized a machine learning model by building out a RESTful API using FastAPI and automated the predictions using Python scripts, Docker and AWS Simple Queue Service. Service was used to provide the estimated annual revenue of Vacasa homes on the real estate website allowing clients to see their potential ROI.
• Delivered a new platform for analysts that expedited time spent on tasks from 3 hours to 15 minutes as part of a cross-functional team. Stood up the infrastructure for a scalable AWS ECS stack and enforced authentication through the load balancer using a cloud-based IAM provider, worked on feature development in React, and participated in user acceptance testing. Platform will eventually host multiple services that will further enhance the analyst’s workflow in setting and analyzing rates.
• Wrote technical design documents which leveraged full stack knowledge and provided guidelines for projects involving serverless architecture and outlined functional and non-functional requirements, security and testing considerations.
• Mentored a software development apprentice in React and coding best practices.
• Skills: JavaScript, Python, SQL, React, Redux, Express, FastAPI, CircleCi, Jenkins, Terraform, AWS, Jest, Enzyme, Pytest, Agile
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
Portland, Oregon Area
• Assisted students in learning foundational skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git and GitHub.
• Participated in code reviews for projects ranging from vanilla to full-stack JavaScript.
• Provided guidance and resources for a cohort of approximately 30 students.
2018 — 2019
Portland, Oregon Area
Career Track | 480 hours | Advanced Full-Stack Software Development
• Client-side applications incorporating: React and Redux
• Server-side applications incorporating: Express, Node.js, and Mongoose & MongoDB
• TDD using Mocha & Chai and Jest & Enzyme
• Responsive design with CSS grid and SCC/CSS modular solutions
• Algorithms & big O notation
• Static site generation with Gatsby and Contentful
Bootcamp 2 | 160 Hours | Intermediate Software Development
• Single-page applications
• Functional programming
• Web applications incorporating Vue.js, Express, PostgreSQL & Node.js
• RESTful API design
Bootcamp 1 | 160 Hours | Fundamentals of Software Development
• Object-oriented Programming
• JavaScript & ES6 syntax
• Semantic HTML5
• CSS, including Flexbox
• Version control with Git & Github
• VSCode and ESLint
Education
San Diego State University
Bachelor's Degree
2010 — 2014