Senior Software Engineer

• Jun 2021 - Present

Orum is the simplest API integration for instant payouts. Our easy-to-integrate API allows you to implement instant payouts in one sprint or less. You save money by avoiding engineering and operating costs, enjoy informed partner support, and gain access to all major rails without costly bank integrations or prolonged compliance. Plus, you’ll be able to launch new payout experiences to attract and monetize more customers. Founded by Stephany Kirkpatrick and led by expert fintech operators from LearnVest, Square, N26, Klarna, Marqeta, and Stash, Orum has raised over $82M from leading investors, including Accel, Canapi, Bain Capital Ventures, Inspired Capital, Homebrew, Acrew, BoxGroup, Clocktower Ventures, Primary Ventures, SVB Capital, and American Express Ventures. We provide the technology and expertise required to power a better financial system where everyone has the freedom to build to their potential. To learn more, visit Orum.io. Show less

Full Stack Software Engineer

• Sep 2018 - May 2021

First contributed to the development and release of our MVP with the rest of the engineering team. Up to the first half of my tenure, I've continued with product development in collaboration with our lead designer and product manager. Although there was front-end work to be completed (React/Redux), I've had more interest in the backend/infrastructure work (Typescript, NodeJS, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Azure). For the second half of my tenure, I joined the newly-created DevSecOps team, where I reported directly to the CISO. It was in this team where I focused on supporting our Engineering and Data Science teams' needs as well as focus on infrastructure and security initiatives (CircleCI, Terraform, Azure). Some of the tasks required (to name a few) were setting up private AKS clusters for use within our VNETs (adhering to RFC 1918) + peering and private links, integrating Azure Active Directory to our AKS clusters for cluster access via RBAC, networking setup and security within our Firewall (+ rules), and supporting our pen-testing efforts + remediation. Lead and owned initiatives and proposals for improvements within our current infrastructure and systems. * Proposed the use of Istio within all of our AKS clusters for increasing our security position (mTLS + certificate rotation, also ultimately enabling HSTS by default), overall maturity and support level for solution, and ease/abstraction of networking rules. * To reduce overhead of our GraphQL services' development and support, proposed the use of graph databases with GraphQL support * Hardened access to our storage accounts that are used in our Databricks instances to further protect PII and sensitive data (eventually setup our data governance solution in our private network to support this) * Lead and setup our Kafka cluster on AKS, delegating k8s pods onto specific nodes via pod affinity/anti-affinity and Azure Node Pools + tuning exercise Show less

Senior Developer

• Nov 2016 - Aug 2018

Worked on and lead various projects with different teams per contracts set with our customers. During this period I've refocused my interests from the Microsoft stack to open source software. I've gained more experience on the front-end (React/Redux (ES5 + lodash + CSS-in-JS), Material UI, Mapbox) with an introduction into DevOps and infrastructure (Docker and Kubernetes utilizing Azure AKS, SSL/TLS (create CSR via openssl and submit to CA + installation of certs on an NGINX ingress controller in k8s + DNS setup). Supported back-end development using Node.js (ES5 + express) + MySQL + Azure CosmoDB (Gremlin). Show less

Software Design Engineer II (Contract)

• May 2016 - Nov 2016

As part of the E-Receipt group, tasked with supporting, testing, enhancing, and modernizing the feature. Responsible for code-reviews, documentation, estimation, and design discussions. As part of the modernization efforts, first introduction into Go and it's potential applications. As part of the E-Receipt group, tasked with supporting, testing, enhancing, and modernizing the feature. Responsible for code-reviews, documentation, estimation, and design discussions. As part of the modernization efforts, first introduction into Go and it's potential applications.

Programmer Analyst II

• Jan 2011 - May 2016

Full-stack developer working closely with factory workers, subject matter experts, upper management, and other technical teams on providing solutions to improve productivity on the factory floor. Complete ownership of supported applications, from factory-specific (~30 users) to production and mission-critical applications (~30,000 users). Responsible for scoping solution with customers and functional analysts, to estimation of work, testing and pushing work to the test environment, to coordinating delivery of functionality with customers, to releasing final work to production. On call for production outages; honored SLA agreements, all different with specific customers. - ASP.NET MVC & Web API (RESTful) - jQuery, Bootstrap, Knockout (SPA) - C# (Linq, Tasks/Threading, Async) - Batch Job Scheduling and Management (including ETL jobs) - Veracode Security Scanning (fixed security vulnerabilities, including XSS and SQL Injection issues) - Oracle (Job scheduler, bulk processing, SQL Tuning) - SQL Server (SQL Tuning) Show less

Student Web Developer

• Sep 2010 - Jul 2011

Programmer Analyst (Internship)

• Jun 2010 - Aug 2010

Was tasked to modernize internal tools and applications. Worked closely with mentors on overall scope of projects and to understand customer expectations: - Applied jQuery to target applications to improve usability - Rewrote an ASP.NET VB application using C# and improved usability using jQuery and MS AjaxToolKit Was tasked to modernize internal tools and applications. Worked closely with mentors on overall scope of projects and to understand customer expectations: - Applied jQuery to target applications to improve usability - Rewrote an ASP.NET VB application using C# and improved usability using jQuery and MS AjaxToolKit

Student Web Developer

• Oct 2009 - Jun 2010

Worked closely with the Pathologists at the University of Washington Medical Center to prototype a Death Certificate Printing Service to expedite this process (fill out form via web site and print out fields onto official Washington State death certificates via dot-matrix printer): - ASP.NET MVC - Entity Framework - Linq - SQL Server - C# - jQuery - MS AjaxToolKit - Adobe Professional (.xfdf file format used to create forms) Worked closely with the Pathologists at the University of Washington Medical Center to prototype a Death Certificate Printing Service to expedite this process (fill out form via web site and print out fields onto official Washington State death certificates via dot-matrix printer): - ASP.NET MVC - Entity Framework - Linq - SQL Server - C# - jQuery - MS AjaxToolKit - Adobe Professional (.xfdf file format used to create forms)

Quality Assurance / Development Support (Co-op/Internship)

• Apr 2008 - Sep 2008

Continued my internship as a software tester (logging in bugs and testing), but began fixing smaller bugs alongside the developers. Worked on a time-entry prototype to be used to replace our manual time-entry prrocess (Microsoft Infopath, C#, XPath). Continued my internship as a software tester (logging in bugs and testing), but began fixing smaller bugs alongside the developers. Worked on a time-entry prototype to be used to replace our manual time-entry prrocess (Microsoft Infopath, C#, XPath).

Software Tester (Co-op/Internship)

• Jun 2007 - Aug 2007

Began my experiences as an intern, going over the software development life cycle as well as train to be a software tester. Spent the summer logging in bugs and testing the company's main product: - ASP.NET - C# - HTML/CSS - Javascript Began my experiences as an intern, going over the software development life cycle as well as train to be a software tester. Spent the summer logging in bugs and testing the company's main product: - ASP.NET - C# - HTML/CSS - Javascript