Zalando Lounge
Go Engineer6/2021 to 11/2021

• Participating in the design and development of Go microservices surrounding sales campaigns for the Zalando fashion store.
• Drafted database design proposal and implemented the best solution in Postgres.
• Responsible for developing frontend review tool for selecting/filtering articles based on planned GMV target and additional user defined matching criteria.

Axel Springer
Software Engineer12/2020 to 6/2021

• Responsible for developing premium services for News Media Technology brands.
• Optimized existing fraud detection application built in Go that detected user device sessions.
• Built and customized iframe components for offer pages and articles using React and Typescript.
• Created a video paywall frontend component.
• Managed AWS infrastructure with Terraform modules.
• Monitored logs and metrics in Kibana and Grafana.
• Configured Github action pipelines to execute image comparison tests and archive the resulting screenshots.
• Automated end to end tests in Ghost Inspector.

Udemy
Docker Mastery Teaching Assistant4/2020 to present

• Assist Docker Captain Bret Fisher with his Docker Mastery course. Responsibilities include answering student questions in Udemy and Slack.

Vector Analysis
Solutions Architect6/2019 to 12/2019

• Developed an email engine for sending and creating responsive emails with React, MGML, Node, TypeScript and Sendgrid.
• Developed a blog application with GatsbyJS leveraging client data from Contentful headless CMS.
• Created a Docker Swarm cluster on Digital Ocean and deployed the solution.
• Integrated Drone CI and Portainer within the cluster to support CI/CD.
• Used Traefik and Let’s encrypt to proxy services with TLS encryption.

Akelius
Software Engineer9/2018 to 11/2020

• Built management software for the staff department to manage all employees.
• Responsible for full stack development. Used: React, Redux, NodeJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and Azure.
• Took ownership in ensuring the product had an excellent user experience and a functional user interface.
• Dockerized the entire backend environment for development and deployment using docker-compose and custom multi-stage build Dockerfiles.
• Developed a permission strategy consisting of multiple user roles and app resources. Permissions had a fine-grained control of access down to a resource's data attributes.
• Used of Auth0 for authentication and to store user roles.
• Implemented translation feature for 5 diferent lanaguages.
• Quality tested high security-focused application with Jest and Enzyme.
• Encouraged customer discovery interviews, participated as an interviewer and summarized findings.

Siemens AG
Digital Frontend Engineer4/2017 to 8/2018

• Created 4 analytic app prototypes for power plant performance monitoring.
• Built a brand style library for a suite of applications.
• Co-created a customer workshop agenda with a digital business model developer.
• Made scalable and interactive D3 graph components.
• Created Sketch UI designs then uploaded them to Invision Enterprise to share clickable mockups with teams and product owners or customers.
• Critiqued UI Designs from external contractors.
• Validated/invalidated assumptions, for example: problem hypotheses, user scenarios, and ui designs with customer feedback.
• Examined organizational focus and stressed the importance of mission, vision, and culture.
• Performed customer discovery interviews.
• Established lightning talks.
• Live recorded my lighting talk about co-creation and customer development.
• Made everyone on my team feel like they belonged.
• Promoted team first, customer second.

Mass Mutual Financial
Application Developer 11/2015 to 1/2017

• Performed full stack development with Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL.
• Built the frontend of a loan request microservice using AngularJS, Bootstrap, NPM, Sass, jQuery, ES6, and JSPM.
• Built a brand style library.
• Re-designed existing features in applications.
• Given assignments without prior knowledge of the technology required but learned quickly and executed within a 2 week Sprint.
• Wrote unit tests using Rspec and FactoryGirl.
• Wrote front-end integration tests using Selenium-based framework called Watir.
• Performed cross-browser/device compatibility testing.
• Deployed private repositories to Artifactory, pulled them down using npm.
• Scheduled user research sessions to learn from real users.
• Participated in daily stand ups and used JIRA.
• Leveraged Gulp for task-running.
• Researched new technologies and discussed trends from Thoughtworks' Technology Radar.

Unbound Commerce
Lead Web Developer 03/2015 to 10/2015

• Developed a mobile version of a customer's existing Yahoo Store site.
• Responsible for front-end development.
• Used JavaSever Pages (JSP), HTML5, JQuery, Robert T. Morris Language (RTML), and CSS3.
• Made code changes to a browser-based editor.
• Allocated work to team members according to priority and difficulty using Trello.
• Had direct client interaction via email and phone.
• Sent invoices to customers.
• Updated system record of customer information: email, phone number, credit card etc. while on phone with them.
• Called people to pay outstanding balances.
• Trained onboarding members.
• Re-designed or upgraded existing mobile sites from basic to premium.
• Contributed customer support through email and via Zoho CRM. Responded to complaints, questions, and fixed bugs.
• Used Google Speed Test to optimize mobile sites, making changes based on the recommendations provided.
• Merged new code with existing code and previewed changes before making it live.
• Tested functionality of completed work.
• Implemented new features to live mobile sites: custom search with filter, custom collapsible nav, scroll to the top bottom, drop down lists, contact form, tap to zoom etc.
• Performed cross-browser/device compatibility testing.

M.F.A. Visual and Performing Arts, Tufts University, 2012-2015

B.F.A. & Philosophy Minor, Visual and Performing Arts, Tufts University, 2008 - 2012

Notable Courses

Introduction to Data Science, General Assembly, 2016

Unix System Administration, Tufts University 2013

Notable Workshops

Data Driven Product Management, Beyond Machine, 2018

3-Day Advanced Ultimate Go Training, Ardan Labs, with Bill Kennedy, 2019

Kubernetes vs. Swarm, Goto Berlin, with Bret Fisher, 2019