Full-Stack Software Engineer on the Backend/Admin Team tasked with maintaining data integrity and building features that facilitate district and school wide setup on the Seesaw platform.

Pandemic Note - Seesaw experienced rapid growth during the COVID-19 pandemic when schools across the globe started using the platform for remote learning.

Highlights:

Roster Sync Dashboard

• Helped build a dashboard that gives district admins power to transfer and update their own district data into Seesaw. It also highlights data transfer issues and how to solve them

• Vastly improved onboarding times for all users. Setups that took weeks now take a few days or less

• Transitioned legacy data transfer logic to support syncing multiple schools in one district

• Achieved faster data update times by also implementing smaller delta syncs (only applying data updates)

• Worked closely with Support Teams during rollout to address all incoming bugs and data issues

Data Resolution CSV Tool

• Created a lightweight CSV data update tool that allows support teams to fix the Top 10 data issues without Engineering involvement

• The tool now solves 75% of reoccurring support requests and data issues

Creative Tools Undo/Redo

• Implemented undo/redo functionality on our primary product feature, Creative Tools

• This is a powerful but kid-friendly version of a “slides” feature you may find in other products

• Handled undo/redo of inter-page manipulations (add, delete, reorder, etc.) and element additions to the page itself

• Work on an agile, cross-functional scrum team to implement features for a cloud-based

Electronic Health Record (EHR) web application using Ember.js

• Developed a modern authentication portal in React. Integrated with Amazon’s Cognito service to create a robust signup and login experience for our patient-facing application

• Built, extended, and maintained a UI component library to enforce existing design patterns and promote cohesiveness throughout our application

• Designed and consumed proprietary APIs that follow REST guidelines

• Systematically upgraded parts of our core application to newer versions of Ember.js

• Designed lectures to teach middle schools students programming fundamentals

• Lectures introduced basic concepts like boolean operators, primitive data types, conditionals, functions, and simple data structures

• Classes were taught as part of Martin Luther King Jr Middle Schools' free after school program

• Taught programming basics in Python and introduced HTML/CSS in some offerings of the program

• Worked with product and mechanical engineers to create “Internet of Things” (IoT) applications

• Connected devices were built using KinomaJS and prototyped on the Kinoma Create

• Leveraged popular REST APIs (including Bing Maps, Google Maps, Weather Underground, ect.), user-inputted data, and location-based real time data to create personalized physical desktop "buttons" that served to alert users based on their needs