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Full Stack Engineer @ ChowNow From January 2017 to November 2017 (11 months) Playa Vista, CASoftware Developer @ Hulu From January 2018 to March 2019 (1 year 3 months) Santa Monica, CAPrincipal Front End Engineer @ ChowNow Leading the front end engineering team on developing ChowNow's latest consumer product, Discover (https://eat.chownow.com). Introduced new technologies to the team...

Full Stack Engineer @ ChowNow From January 2017 to November 2017 (11 months) Playa Vista, CASoftware Developer @ Hulu From January 2018 to March 2019 (1 year 3 months) Santa Monica, CAPrincipal Front End Engineer @ ChowNow Leading the front end engineering team on developing ChowNow's latest consumer product, Discover (https://eat.chownow.com). Introduced new technologies to the team (React, Redux, Webpack, PWA best practices) and architected the platform to scale well as more features were requested from product teams. Focus on performance and scalable code. * Migrated Discover from Ember.js to React and re-architected the platform to help address growing pains* Decoupled front-end application from back-end API, allowing it to be developed and deployed as a standalone application* Introduced redux-saga to deal with side-effects, which helped keep both Redux actions & components pure and maintainable* Worked on moving Discover application towards a PWA, including introducing a service worker to provide limited offline support / better load times. * Built unit testing infrastructure on Jest* Improved application performance 10x after introducing React, and reduced CI builds from~10min average to ~3min average* Restructured front-end hiring process and helped introduce more cohesive developmentworkflow (structured release changelog, git flow, milestones)* Proposed and executed the move to a monorepo git structure and worked on scripts/tools to streamline that workflow. Created initial scaffolding for sharing scripts/modules across projects. From November 2017 to January 2018 (3 months) Playa Vista, CASoftware Engineer @ Bottlenose * Core member in developing flagship product, Nerve Center, built on React + Redux. The Nerve Center platform continuously aggregates and analyzes data across 2M+ digital and traditional data sources to construct timely, usable business insights.* Help maintain and add new features to new API, built on Koa with Mongo + Mongoose as the data store & ODM.* Maintain & add features to data visualization library built on D3 + Backbone* Create & maintain Ansible playbooks to help automate deployment* Containerize applications using Docker From November 2015 to December 2016 (1 year 2 months) Lead Software Developer @ Taggler / Ultrapress * Led the development of front-end and back-end features for a growing e-commerce startup* Implemented and maintained new features for Django-based website From July 2013 to November 2015 (2 years 5 months) Marina Del Rey, CAAssociate Web Developer @ KutterGroup, LLC * Developed and maintained applications for high profile clients* Created custom modules in Drupal to meet specific client needs* In addition to CI & Drupal, heavy usage of Rails, PHP, HTML5, CSS, MongoDB, Vagrant, and MySQL From November 2011 to November 2014 (3 years 1 month) Web Developer @ Wildwood School * Spearheaded the creation of a custom attendance & assessment system built on Zend Framework* Optimized database and code to support hundreds of requests from students & faculty* Worked closely with school IT department and faculty to address concerns and simplify the process of grading* Moved the school off of a paper-based sign out & attendance system, and implemented a custom system using barcode scanners. From 2010 to June 2013 (3 years) EMT-B @ Bard College Emergency Medical Services * BLS EMT-B certified under NY state. * Responded to emergency calls received on-campus and in the local area 24 hours a week. From 2011 to May 2013 (2 years) Advertising Assistant @ WonderHowTo * Reached out to community forums, as well as websites such as Yahoo Answers, to try and attract new viewers.* Provided assistance to the marketing department* Helped launch the Worlds program (http://www.wonderhowto.com/worlds/)* Reached out to local businesses to bring them into the Worlds network. From September 2009 to June 2010 (10 months) Senior Software Developer @ Hulu * Helped with the migration of Hulu web applications from Rails monolith to Next.js* Acted as React & Next.js subject-matter expert, featured in Next.js case-study* Built components & infrastructure for core hulu.com applications, responsible for serving millions of users per month* Improved front-end testing practices with the introduction of Testing Library, while migrating away from tests that shallow render & assert on implementation details* Established relationships with various Next.js core contributors and Google Chrome team* Advocate for DX: championed a cross-team focus on improving the developer experience by introducing tools to ease the development process* Advocate for accessibility; researched and implemented tools to do automatic accessibility audits and block inaccessible components from being released. This tool won a company hackathon.* Poured into the team by mentoring, answering questions, and jumping in to help diagnose & improve performance-related issues* Mentored & interviewed several interns as part of Hulu’s internship program* Improved performance audit score of account management from low 40s to high 80s & 90s* Participated in developer rotation to assist other Hulu web teams with technical challenges From March 2019 to September 2019 (7 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaLead Software Engineer @ InVision Building collaboration tools to improve the lives of frontend developers and designers. From September 2019 to July 2020 (11 months) Remote, USCo-Founder @ Blush Blush is a tool that allows people to create, mix, and customize illustrations from artists around the world. We're working on bringing illustrations to everyone, so that people in marketing, social media, and content creation can tell their stories in a creative way.🏆 #1 Product of the Week, #2 Product of the Month (Product Hunt)🏆 Featured Figma Plugin Software Engineering Consultant @ InVision Temporary part-time consulting work to off-board responsibilities and help the team meet deadlines. From July 2020 to September 2020 (3 months)