Lead frontend project initiatives and legacy code refactor with emphasis on React, Node.js, and best practices.

Co-Scrum Master managing sprint features, backlogs, and tech debt along with SOX security reviews and audits.

PREVIOUS TEAM (From: 09/2021 - 01/2024)

Lead initiatives to refactor and expand our portal and demo web applications, transitioning them to operate on the Next.js

Contribute to the development of new UI/UX components that provide accessibility focused guidance out of the box.

Collaborate with Designers, PMs, and cross-functional teams to enhance software functionality and user experience.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation scripts used within our Release and PR review process.

Lead system and dependency upgrades within codebase to set us up for our v4 package release.

Lead tech debt removal efforts that reduced build times by 45% and cleared/refactored our codebase removing 30% of redundant code. Included revisiting the Lerna Monorepo, Jest, TypeScript, and Eslint configurations.

Worked with cross-functional teams on adoption of Coherence controls

Stayed with the Lighthouse team as we moved from Microsoft to GitHub.

Built GitHub importer tooling to migrate CI/CD pipelines from multiple sources including Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps to GitHub Workflow Actions using REST APIs.

Investigated usage and test mapped of 30+ plugins into GitHub Actions. (Docker, Bash, Azure, Git, Trello)

Required to understand the CLI commands and flags available as well as dive into each tool usability.

Stack/Tools: Ruby, Rails, Github, Azure, AzureDevops, YAML. Postman.

Joined and was an active member of the OctoGatos ERG

Was part of the Lighthouse team that moved from team to team within Microsoft that helped improved efficiencies, create work flows, and tooling to increase productivity.

Led integration of Nitpicker tool into Merlinbot suite of Microsoft internal tools.

Implemented backend extension using TypeScript/React that assisted WWL team automate their educational courses. Lowering their course completion time from 12+ months to average of 6 months.

Worked closely with these teams to understand their needs and areas of improvement which led to recommendations on how we can increase their effectiveness.

Tech Stack: React/Typescript, C#, Azure DevOps, Azure.

Software Design Engineer - Microsoft LEAP (InConsulting)

Build and update new features within the Azure DevOps Admin Experience using React, TypeScript, and C#.

Meet with product manager to assess design mock ups and determine timeline for feature customer releases.

Fix feature bugs and develop features within 3-week agile sprints while participating in daily standups.