In addition to my role as Senior Software Engineer at Feathr, I led a team of 3 software engineers and drove the delivery of complex technical projects on time.

Duties include:

• Working directly with the Engineering Director and VP of Product to ensure the team is aligned with the company's goals and vision

• Hiring, onboarding and training new software engineers

• Mentoring and developing a team of software engineers to help them grow professionally and reach their goals

Feathr is a SaaS product that offers digital marketing tools for associations, nonprofits and event organizers. Here I worked cross-functionally with customer-facing teams and other engineers to iteratively improve UX for various features and integrations based on customer feedback, as well as deliver on company goals every quarter.

Main tasks:

• Building, testing, and maintaining secure and performant RESTful API endpoints consumed by frontend applications using Python/Flask, MongoDB, ElasticSearch and Redis

• Writing performant MongoDB and ElasticSearch queries/aggregations for reports and tooling

• Designing and implementing frontend features using React/Typescript/MobX

• Integrating, scaling and testing third party APIs

• Building integration testing frameworks and staging environments as part of CI

• Documenting APIs and systems for engineers using industry standard tools like Swagger and OpenAPI

Notable Projects:

• Added a completely new revenue stream for the company by re-engineering the product's Facebook integration process and UI to create a seamless and frictionless customer experience. This allowed the company to automatically bill clients on a monthly basis for their Facebook ad spend when previously they were only reporting on it, all while improving the customer (and developer) UX

• Architected and built dynamic temporary staging and QA environments for backend microservices and frontend applications that were automatically deployed as part of the team's development CI/CD process using Helm and Kubernetes

• Played a critical role in developing an integration testing framework that would allow our third party APIs to be tested as part of CI

Main Technologies:

• Languages and Frameworks: Python/Flask, React and Typescript

• Databases: ElasticSearch, MongoDB Atlas, Redis

• Automated Testing Frameworks: PyTest and Jest

• GitOps and DevOps: Docker, Drone, K8s, Helm

• AWS: EC2, S3, Cloudfront, IAM, SecretsManager, CertsManager, EKS, ECR, Lambda

Shadow Health develops educational software that delivers interactive learning environments and virtual patient simulations for nursing and allied health education programs globally. With 600,000+ users, accredited colleges around the world are using the web product which offers a rich curriculum of digital patient clinical scenarios to facilitate clinical reasoning and therapeutic communication in nursing education.

Some of my contributions to the company include:

• Employing TDD and OOP/DDD to redesign a monolithic legacy Ruby on Rails web application by splitting core components into separate services, optimizing database queries and leveraging eagerloading and memoization to improve performance

• Developing secure, RESTful public APIs using JWT and OAuth2 authentication to interface with services and responsive front-end clients

• Architecting a system that allows the web product to be seamlessly integrated with customers' learning platforms using IMS Global's Learning Tools Interoperability standard

• Building a CI/CD pipeline consisting of GitHub/GitLab web hooks, Jenkins for automated builds and scripting, and Infrastructure as Code to provision resources with AWS Cloudformation

• Helping to hire, onboard, and mentor engineers

Main Technologies:

• Languages and Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, React, Angular, JavaScript, Sass, Haml

• Databases: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis

• Automated Tests: RSpec, Mocha

• Automated Deployment: Jenkins for executing deploy scripts that utilized AWS Cloudformation templates to create stacks in VPCs/Subnets consisting of EC2 instances, Auto Scaling Groups, ElastiCache, and RDS/DynamoDB instances