• Collaborated with the information security team on a multi-quarter security enhancement initiative to fortify application defenses and user data privacy for Upstart’s dealership operations platform. Key achievements included:

• Configured role-based authentication pathways.

• Enhanced data privacy by masking personally identifiable information (PII).

• Implemented XSS prevention measures through rigorous input sanitization.

• Implemented multi-factor authentication (MFA) to strengthen system security.

• Established cookie-based session management with time-based expiration, unifying sessions across applications.

• Utilized React, Next.js, and MUI to engineer and maintain dealership operations application, managed inventory, sales reporting, and daily operations.

• Transitioned the codebase to a monorepo architecture, enhancing development efficiency and maintainability.

• Integrated Amplitude analytics for real-time user activity tracking, streamlining issue resolution.

• Applied Zod for API validation to preemptively address type errors, minimizing debugging efforts.

• Maintained and upgraded legacy codebases.

• Boosted backend performance, optimizing database queries to cut API response times by 90%.

Optimized data retrieval processes, reducing unnecessary database loads.-Refined queries to retrieve only the necessary information, improving efficiency by avoiding unnecessary data retrieval from entire tables.

• Converted legacy code to TypeScript, reducing errors and improving bug prevention.

• Augmented test coverage with additional unit and integration tests to capture all potential edge cases.

• Improved user facing application load times by utilizing best practices and technologies

• Advocated for and implemented Redis to cache our translation service, which saved us 90% in costs and reduced page load times by 33%.

• Created a webhook for the translation service to automatically refresh the cache.

• Refactored api calls by reducing the amount of unnecessary functions and calls to the database which led to a 30% decrease in page load times

• Utilized Nextjs with SSR (server-side rendering) which increased web page load speed by 50% and improved code structure.

• Built modern features while managing legacy applications

• Created Node microservices to retire old php services in our ongoing process to clean up legacy code.

• Used Graphql for a new feature that allows clients to collaborate with each other, enabling them to highlight and comment on text, share images and reports with each other.

• Integrated SSO login for .edu accounts, ensuring easier, faster and safer logins for educators and students.

• Implemented an autocomplete search feature for the global search bar. Instead of hitting the api for the labels on-change, we loaded the labels in the front end and query through that, thus -reducing the load on the backend, improving the response speed.

• Created report editor, a new internal tool used by our editors to create custom magazine pages and pdfs to share with our customers.

• Promoted code reusability, quality and services stability with testing

• Used React, React Hooks, Rebass and Styled-components to design front end and created reusable components.

• Ensured all code is up to standard (linting) and fully tested using Jest (Our code has 100% test coverage).

• Published NPM packages to our private registry to promote reusability.

Tech Spec - Javascript, Html, CSS, Sass, BootStrap, EJS Template, Node, Express, and MongoDB.

• Built both the frontend and backend for real-time messaging using WebSockets with socket.io

• Worked closely with the UX team to redesign our Homepage from scratch. We made the frontend responsive, as well as re-architected our backend API to be more modular.

• Refactored our database in MongoDB to maintain consistent naming standards and restructured our collections to fit a more normalized schema.

• Added functionality for notifications and reminders, via email or text message using Twilio and Nodemailer.

• Worked quickly in a small fast-moving team of engineers to push out new features but also clean up tech debt.

• Mentored junior engineers on the usage of Node/Express, and interacting with MongoDB. Taught them coding standards for Javascript, especially ES6.