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CodePath

• Delivered ~870 hours of group and 1:1 technical interview coaching experience, mentoring candidates on data structures, algorithms, and system design.
• Teach people about data structures and algorithms and prepare them for interviews.
• Review resumes and give advice to get people the jobs and internships they want.
• Attend engineering leadership programs in San Francisco, California.

Scout Motors

• Developed a robust and high-performance web application using Golang, adhering to best practices for maintainable and scalable code.
• Implemented RESTful API endpoints to facilitate seamless data exchange between the server and client applications.
• Utilized Go's concurrency model to optimize application performance, effectively handling multiple requests simultaneously.
• Integrated various third-party libraries and frameworks to extend the functionality and efficiency of the application.
• Conducted thorough unit testing and integration testing to ensure code quality and reliability, achieving over 90 percent test coverage.
• Deployed the application using Docker for containerization, ensuring consistent environments across development, testing, and production.
• Implemented logging and monitoring solutions to track application performance and quickly identify and resolve issues.
• Collaborated with a cross-functional team, including front-end developers, UX designers, and product managers, to define project requirements and deliverables.
• Utilized version control systems like Git for efficient source code management and collaboration.
• Provided comprehensive documentation for the codebase, including API documentation, to facilitate future development and maintenance.
• Optimized database interactions using Go's database/sql package, improving query performance and reducing latency.
• Participated in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Successfully migrated legacy code from a different programming language to Golang, resulting in a more efficient and maintainable codebase.
• Leveraged Golang’s standard library to minimize external dependencies and reduce potential security vulnerabilities.
• Developed automated CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and GitLab CI to streamline the deployment process and reduce manual intervention.
• Tools: Sumo Logic, AWS, Stripe, Dwolla, Wex, Bash, Node.js, JavaScript, SQL, Jira, PostgreSQL, Confluence, React, TypeScript, Kotlin

GasBuddy

• Design and develop efficient database structures and queries to optimize the performance of GasBuddy's Payment services backend systems.
• Perform testing to ensure systems meet documented user requirements.
• Troubleshoot, test, and validate software issues. Resolve issues with due urgency and maintain thorough documentation of all software solutions.
• Develop and implement scalable and efficient backend solutions to support GasBuddy's platform.
• Conduct code reviews of team members' code to ensure adherence to best practices and maintain code quality standards.
• Collaborate with the team to develop and implement innovative and user-friendly solutions for GasBuddy's Payment services that enhance the customer experience.
• Work with the Product Owner to prioritize and plan the development of new features for GasBuddy's Payment services.
• Participate in regular team meetings to provide updates on the progress of feature development and discuss any challenges or roadblocks.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for GasBuddy's Payment services backend systems.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of GasBuddy's Payment services backend systems by providing feedback and suggestions for enhancements and optimizations.
• Tools: Sumo Logic, AWS, Stripe, Dwolla, Wex, Bash, Node.js, JavaScript, SQL, Jira, PostgreSQL, Confluence, React, TypeScript, Kotlin

Atlassian

• Inspired and mentored less experienced engineers and interns.
• Interviewed candidates in system design.
• Won 5th place in ShipIt 2022 hackathon out of 400 teams with 7 teammates for employee birthday/anniversaries generator web app built with React & Node.
• Worked in a startup-like environment that was fast-paced, continuously changing, and with rapidly increasing responsibilities day-by-day because the team had too many high-priority projects and too few engineers.
• Built and shipped back-end API features and capabilities daily in a highly scalable, cross-geo distributed environment.
• Ensured full visibility, error reporting, and monitoring of high performing backend services and independently created and presented multiple TechOps reports.
• Developed and debugged APIs and features for Cloud Security Link's Identity And Access Management and User Provisioning microservices to scale from syncing 1000s of group memberships to 12+ million on Atlassian Access Admin customer site.
• Optimized queries for databases containing tables for users, groups, and group memberships by 500x.
• Worked with Java, Kotlin, Splunk, SignalFx, Pollinator, LaunchDarkly, pganalyze, SAML, OAuth, Okta, Microsoft Azure, User Provisioning, Agile Methodologies, PostgreSQL, and AWS stack, including security, deployment pipelines, and automation.
• Completed on-call rotations, led the team to solve major incidents, attended to customer questions about team's services and APIs, wrote documentation of common questions and answers for support engineers to reference.
• Became an expert in streamhub, shipyard, and AWS SQS resources domain and wrote technical tutorials and reference pages for teammates and new hires.
• Gained experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).
• Demonstrated high-quality technical writing.
• Managed internal and external customer requirements and expectations.
• Gained experience defining SLOs/SLIs and implementing monitoring, alerting, and runbooks for backend services.
• Tools: Bitbucket, Confluence, Java, SAML, OAuth, Spring Framework, AWS, Splunk, Kotlin, Linux, Bash, SQL, Git, Jira, PostgreSQL

Atlassian

• Led 10 interns to compete an annual ShipIt hackathon and developed a Slack API using Git, Bash, Node.js, and Heroku to motivate employees to volunteer for causes/events sponsored by Atlassian. The integration contains a Leaderboard showing the employees who have volunteered for the most causes/events and recommendations for the best volunteer opportunities based on employee votes and reviews.
• Migrate user provisioning REST API load tests from Gatling, which is written in Scala, to our internal testing tool written in Python to execute 1000+ requests per minute per HTTP method.
• Simulate 1000, 2000, and 5000 users. Test GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE types of APIs. Monitor CPU and Memory use.
• Analyze data gathered from load test runs via signalFX dashboards and Splunk logs, provide sound recommendations for performance improvements, and identify bottlenecks of application.
• Improved performance of PATCH API response by 10 times.
• Cached GET API requests to relieve load on the Postgres database and to improve response times.
• Tools: Scala, Python, Gatling, PostgreSQL, SAML, OAuth, AWS, Linux, Bash, Spring Framework, Splunk, SQL, Git, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket

Google

• Delivered 1230 hours of software engineering and leadership and project management and product management experience.
• Collaborated with a team of peers and a Google software engineer to design and implement a swimming pool rental web application using Java, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS over the course of 10 weeks, leveraging various Google Cloud Platform APIs, including App Engine and Datastore.
• Practiced industry best practices such as: contributing to open source software using Git and GitHub, conducting code reviews with/for teammates, extending an existing codebase, participating in distributed development, designing new components and interfaces and leading them to completion.
• Built a map with a search box that finds all of the swimming pools in a specified city within a chosen country and displays markers for all of the pools returned, with on-click details for each pool using the Google Places API and Google Maps JavaScript API.
• Presented ideas and development plans to senior software engineers and engineering managers at Google Cloud HQ in Sunnyvale, CA.
• Mentored by software engineer on Google Shopping team in Cambridge, MA.
• Tools: GCP, Bash, SQL, HTML, Git, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Java Servlet

Dominion Energy

• Designed and built an issue and assignment tracking ASP.NET and C# application for the Fault Analysis team which standardizes the process of reporting accidents that occur at company substations and managing employees progress to resolve issues and prevent future problems.
• Coordinated weekly meetings with the team to present project scope, goals, and deliverables to ensure consistency with company strategy and commitments.
• Delivered comprehensive documentation of project development and subsequent revisions to include insights from all stakeholders and ensure that future developers can understand and maintain the application.
• Tools: Bash, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, C#, ASP.NET, jQuery, AJAX

VCU

• Worked 7 nights per week for free while attending full-load of university math, computer science, and physical sciences courses.
• Delivered 732 hours of research experience.
• Collaborated with graduate students to develop a web tool for users to quickly identify diseases that influence other diseases.
• Developed color-coded network visualizations using D3.js to visualize connections between specific disease miRNAs.
• Managed large databases that support web applications using SQL and PHP on phpMyAdmin.
• Tools: Bash, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, D3.js

Yobbz

• Worked and logged 17-18 hours per weekday for free for a startup company during senior experience which was last couple months of high school.
• Delivered 810 hours of software engineering experience, producing website features and functionalities in production environment.
• Engineered the company website content and improved its functionality and design using HTML5, CSS, and jQuery.
• Conferred with the company owner to prioritize needs, resolve conflicts, develop content criteria, and choose solutions.
• Reduced team product development time by creating an interactive mobile application prototype for the developers to reference.
• Tools: HTML, CSS

Arlington Public Library

• Taught students from Washington-Liberty High School and Swanson Middle School in Arlington, Virginia in Algebra 1, Algebra 2, and Geometry.

Languages and Databases

Python

HTML5

CSS3

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Shell Scripting

Libraries

NumPy

Pandas

D3.js

React

Lodash

Moment.js

Frameworks

Django

Flask

Bootstrap

Node.js

Next.js

Express.js

Other

Git

AWS

GCP

SignalFx

Opsgenie

Splunk