Developed APIs (Python/Flask) and frontend (JavaScript/React), performed data migrations (MySQL, Postgres, Alembic, Snowflake), ensured adequate testing (Pytest, Cypress, Postman), and implemented product feedback to provide features for e-commerce merchants to create campaigns, discover creators, and generate metrics.

Groomed product requirements with product managers and engineers to make quality MVPs and feature updates to meet OKRs and succeed during major e-commerce events. (Notion, Figma, Vercel, Jira)

Monitored and improved web app performance (DataDog) as systems scaled to optimize user experience.

Engaged with principal architect to incrementally improve team’s development experience, such as speeding up the CI/CD pipeline and reducing time for new hires to make their first pull-request. (Jenkins, Docker, AWS)

Collaborated with engineering and sales teams to create a transparent marketplace for creators to choose from a vast product selection with competitive commission rates.

Company Description:

Howl (Series A)(formerly Narrativ) is a creator platform for the customer-centric and product-obsessed. Creators of every size use Howl’s commerce and payments technology to get better rates and easy payments for their big ideas. Creators on Howl earn more when they open doors for others, and have the tools to turn their craft into a business.

Led small software team of senior and junior engineers to meet program milestones by managing workflow, grooming product backlog, leading code reviews, removing blockers, and interfacing with EPMs, customers, and product teams.

Implemented software updates for new interface requirements stemming from hardware upgrades.

Investigated, fixed, and tested software issues reported by test engineers.

Led effort to resolve or mitigate high risk software vulnerabilities.

Prototyped program to synchronize sensor data to ensure sonar accuracy.

Converted legacy software from C to C++ to increase modularity and maintainability.

Updated data analysis software to increase data analysis plot generation speeds and improve user experience.

Refitted submarines with new software and hardware with subcontractors, navy sailors, and field engineers.

Coordinated stakeholder meetings to determine resolution of problem reports as the problem manager. Proposed resolutions of problem reports via investigations, developing software solutions, and burndown metrics.

Managed effort to review backlog of fleet issues to develop concepts for software enhancement.

Prepared for Software Qualification Test and System Acceptance Test through procedures updates, dry runs, requirements analysis, and stakeholder review meetings. Formally demonstrated a temporary alteration system.

Drafted new requirements for future navigation capability. Modeled affected subsystems in Cameo to demonstrate impact of proposed capabilities.

Assessed budgeting status (ACWP, BCWP, ETCs, EVs) of work packages and submitted variance reports.

Coded and regression-tested GUI updates to modernize user experience per new design requirements.

Participated in code reviews, design meetings, scrums, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and product demos.

Investigated software bugs and problem reports, and proposed solutions for review and implementation.

Derived use cases and product requirements of the user interface. Modeled system using SysML diagrams (use cases, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams).

Led peer review board meetings to ensure delivery of customer deliverables to capture contract award.