• Transitioned into a leadership role, ensuring a smooth knowledge transfer maintaining prior team momentum

• Empowered new team to achieve new heights, delivering high-visibility and critical projects

• Collaborated with stakeholders to clearly define project requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives

• Bridged communication gaps between frontend and backend of team improving collaboration and on-time delivery

• Facilitated key Agile Scrum ceremonies (daily standup, sprint planning, and retrospectives) to maintain project visibility and progress

• Fostered inter-team collaboration by enabling team members to lend expertise to other projects

• Maintained code quality across the organization by performing sanity checks on team member bug tickets and reviewing backend code for other teams

• Conducted regular one-on-one meetings with team members to provide coaching, address concerns, and promote growth

• Defined team goals and established a culture of continuous improvement

• Designed and implemented features from conception, collaborating with team leads and product managers to translate requirements into functional code

• Developed and maintained over 10 RESTful API endpoints with unit and integration tests for robust functionality.

• Streamlined testing new API endpoints through the creation of Python scripts

• Updated database version control by authoring Flyway scripts for efficient Postgres migrations

• Mentored and onboarded new backend engineers, fostering a supportive and collaborative team environment

• Developed tool that converted and migrated database entries without resulting in downtime for platform users.

• Repaired and improved pipeline that maintained resource isolation by reducing latency and allowing preemptive isolation.

• Tested and documented instructions for blue-green deployment feature.

• Coded job that provided daily updates via email of the functions deployed to each development environment.

• Prepared transition from legacy monolithic service to newer service that utilized microservices.

• Improved backend of legacy service to perform data retrieval for users with negligible performance hit.

• Retooled aspects of frontend to display information in a more accommodating way for users.

• Worked with development team ranging from 3-10 members.

• Documented various engineering and support processes allowing new team members to be productive more efficiently.

• Participated in disaster recovery exercises.

• Assisted developers from other teams with making technical decisions by weighing pros and cons.

• Negotiated tasks with offshore teams.

• Supported legacy application with 12-hour availability window and requests ranging from general inquiries to downtime resolution.

• Onboarded 10+client systems to use with services offered.

• Mentored 2 new hires to the company on different teams enhancing their transition into the company.

• Interviewed 5+ candidates on their behavioral fit while providing a positive experience and avoiding implicit bias

First Rotation (Developer Efficiency Group):

• Produced Jenkins plugin that recorded and reported build information for analytics purposes with virtually no decline in performance.

• Participated in code review prior to pushing to production.

• Collaborated with team working on analytics tool to assist with progress on development and optimization.

• Presented updates on progress and research on plugin.

• Contributed to other projects on the team to break monotony and avoid burn out.

• Answered support questions regarding the company's build and deployment stack.

Second Rotation (Application Platform Services):

• Collaborated on REST API that reduced the barrier to entry of utilizing the team's service requiring 90% less metadata entry.

• Developed solution for storing and querying user information with MongoDB.

• Produced unit tests for REST endpoint methods and error handling classes.

• Transitioned to working on legacy product live in production.