Senior Software Engineer

• Aug 2023 - Present

Manager, Pianist, Keyboardist

• Sep 2003 - Present

- Independently marketed bands and booked tours throughout North America - Negotiated and signed deals with Columbia and Atlantic Records - Independently marketed bands and booked tours throughout North America - Negotiated and signed deals with Columbia and Atlantic Records

Senior Frontend Engineer

• Feb 2023 - Aug 2023

- Implemented Sentry issue tracking and replay videos, integrating them with Slack notifications to inform the team of incoming issues, errors, or performance regressions. - Collaborated on designing and implementing a new feature using the NX monorepo, enabling customers to upgrade phone plans via either the customer-facing portal or admin dashboard on these NextJS apps. - Developed features allowing customers to add data to their existing plans. - Assisted in the implementation of a new public-facing site, utilizing the NextJS app router with React Server Components. - Led a Spike investigation on the usability and ergonomics of API endpoints for upcoming features. - Introduced the Sanity Content Management System (CMS) into the consumer-facing application, enabling quick and dynamic content updates. - Migrated the existing infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Terraform. - Enhanced the health and reliability of the analytics in the customer-facing app. - Strengthened the robustness of unit tests (Jest), integration tests (React Testing Library + MSW), and E2E tests (Cypress). - Introduced E2E tests into the admin application. Show less

Senior Software Engineer

• Oct 2022 - Dec 2022

- Wrote detailed end-to-end C4 architecture diagrams and RFCs to plan out a new admin application - Collaborated with designers, product, and frontend engineering team to build a React component library - Used Remix.run to help build a highly performant SSR React customer facing application Implemented code coverage and web accessibility checks into the CI pipeline - Optimized MongoDB collection structure to improve database performance and, as a consequence, a faster end-user experience - Added a search + drag and drop feature to allow admins to create and curate a list of trending artists/companies/music industry people visible that is ultimately displayed to end users Show less

Senior Software Engineer

• Dec 2021 - Sep 2022

- Built functionality to allow users to reorder past orders in the mobile app. - Created monorepo to house shared configuration between frontend/backend apps. - Helped set up e2e testing in the mobile apps using Detox. - Set up frontend caching on Google addresses, which reduced the Google Maps API bill. - Built state machine to handle complex post-delivery / previous order feedback surveys. - Built functionality to allow users to reorder past orders in the mobile app. - Created monorepo to house shared configuration between frontend/backend apps. - Helped set up e2e testing in the mobile apps using Detox. - Set up frontend caching on Google addresses, which reduced the Google Maps API bill. - Built state machine to handle complex post-delivery / previous order feedback surveys.

Senior Frontend Engineer

• Oct 2019 - Nov 2021

- Moved portal for car dealers into a separate micro-frontend. - Built dashboard analytics for car dealers using Redux-Saga for data flow and canvas for IE-compatible data visualizations. - Helped build and maintain a component library for heycar with React Storybook. - Simplified custom SSR configuration on heycar web app. - Implemented redux caching and cache invalidation strategies for various UI filters and features. This sped up the UX and eliminated the need for repeat API requests. - Implemented reusable API calls that abort unnecessary inflight AJAX requests. - Implemented reusable React hooks / Redux sagas for delaying loading indicators to improve UX. - Created a new UI to help heycar roll out a new leads reporting pricing model. - Refactored the portal for car dealers to use client-side rendering with routing served by AWS Lambda and assets served by AWS S3 and Cloudfront. Setup infrastructure deployments and changes with Terraform. - Moved the styling strategy of the main web app to using theming, making future rebranding efforts easier. Show less

Frontend Developer

• Jun 2017 - Sep 2019

- Rebuilt the media portal site for a major international client using Angular 7. More than tripled the site's Google PageSpeed Insights score in less than 3 months - Built a data collecting and product finder using React/Redux in less than 3 weeks - Built coupled and decoupled Drupal based sites - Built reusable UI and website components for various major international clients - Built and maintained other websites / hybrid iOS + Android apps - Rebuilt the media portal site for a major international client using Angular 7. More than tripled the site's Google PageSpeed Insights score in less than 3 months - Built a data collecting and product finder using React/Redux in less than 3 weeks - Built coupled and decoupled Drupal based sites - Built reusable UI and website components for various major international clients - Built and maintained other websites / hybrid iOS + Android apps

Software Engineer

• Nov 2016 - May 2017

- Full stack Rails development on the Jovoto crowdsourcing platform. - Full stack Rails development on the Jovoto crowdsourcing platform.

Frontend Developer

• Sep 2016 - Nov 2016

- Developed UI and overall applications that provide solutions for the cruise ship industry - Created reusable React components for the platform - Built out frontend features using React and Redux - Developed UI and overall applications that provide solutions for the cruise ship industry - Created reusable React components for the platform - Built out frontend features using React and Redux

Software Engineer

• Mar 2015 - May 2016

- Wrote software and developed RoR-based applications that provide cloud-based logistics solutions. - Built the marketing website from scratch using Ruby on Rails. - Wrote software and developed RoR-based applications that provide cloud-based logistics solutions. - Built the marketing website from scratch using Ruby on Rails.

Music Teacher

• Sep 1999 - Oct 2014

- Taught piano/guitar in English and German - Taught piano/guitar in English and German

Research Assistant

• Mar 2013 - Sep 2014

- Gathered, organized, and analyzed statistical data on prevalent DAX, MDAX, and TecDAX companies - Gathered, organized, and analyzed statistical data on prevalent DAX, MDAX, and TecDAX companies

Dean’s Assistant/Marketing Associate

• Oct 2011 - Sep 2014

- Performed market research and assessed university rankings in depth/Inputted data using SPSS - Attended meetings to implement new marketing strategies - Performed market research and assessed university rankings in depth/Inputted data using SPSS - Attended meetings to implement new marketing strategies

Legal Intern

• Jun 2004 - Aug 2005

- Assisted 8 attorneys with legal research and drafting various types of contracts - Assisted 8 attorneys with legal research and drafting various types of contracts