Employment
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2021 - Present Lead Software Engineer, Shop-Ware
- Designed deploy and on-call procedures. Reduced time to production deploy from 14 days to 1. Authored training curriculum and increased qualified deployers from 2 to 12.
- Empowered developers to operate on the application safely by automating tasks and documenting processes.
- Drove feature delivery from end-to-end. Collaborated with product managers, developers, designers, and leadership.
- Mentored teams of six developers through code review, one-on-one pairing, and group instruction.
- Architected full-stack enhancements to legacy web app and consuming services on Heroku, Rails, and PostgreSQL. Drove implementation towards simplicity, selecting the right tools for scale and ease of maintenance.
- Established patterns and foundations for developers to build on with individual contributions. Carefully selected compromises to balance quality and velocity.
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2015 - 2020 Senior Software Engineer, Instructure
- Contributed to suite of mature Ruby on Rails learning management webapps.
- Developed accessible, localized React and Ember frontend including contributions to shared component library.
- Supported service teams' networking needs using Docker, Kubernetes, and Envoy API gateway.
- Tuned monitors and alerts to minimize downtime and on-call incidents.
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2013 - 2015 Associate Software Engineer, Fidelity Investments
- Managed Java Spring project for deployment to internal PaaS.
- Enhanced legacy e-learning software with additional REST endpoints and web services.
- Constructed experimental JavaScript WebGL 3D portfolio visualization with gesture-based interface.
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2012 Undergraduate Researcher, Clemson University
- Maintained Perl backend to Genomics Institute web ordering system.
- Designed and implemented Java batch neuroimage processing, deidentification, and transfer tool.
Education
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2012 BS Computer Science, Minor Digital Production Arts, Clemson University