Experience

CoinCircle

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 2021 - Feb 2023

  Santa Monica, California, United States Wearing many hats on a small team in a fast paced start-up environment to build, market, and grow cryptocurrency platform with >100k users -Building cross-platform client facing applications for Web, iOS, and Android using technologies including React, Redux, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL, AWS ECS, Firebase, Solidity, and Go -Independently rebuilt user authentication service with secure, extensible, full-stack solution. Plug-in architecture with ability to easily add any new… Show more Wearing many hats on a small team in a fast paced start-up environment to build, market, and grow cryptocurrency platform with >100k users -Building cross-platform client facing applications for Web, iOS, and Android using technologies including React, Redux, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL, AWS ECS, Firebase, Solidity, and Go -Independently rebuilt user authentication service with secure, extensible, full-stack solution. Plug-in architecture with ability to easily add any new way to authenticate users (phone, twitter, ETH wallet,... ) while preventing account takeover to protect user funds -Exposed auth service as OAuth compliant external REST API and created embeddable component for “Sign in with...” functionality anywhere -Expanded Ethereum blockchain explorer to support for ERC-1155 NFTs in wallets with Go process and PostgreSQL triggers to parse and transform raw Ethereum logs ingested by Geth node -Built fault tolerant Node.js system to stream tweets in real-time to analyze user sentiment and award users for promoting the platform which significantly reduced the amount of dropped user tweet data -Created and deployed NFT contracts on Ethereum mainnet written in Solidity using IPFS for storage -Designed and delivered many full-stack features in app including frictionless 2 click sign-up with phone and automatic account log-in via SMS “magic link” which allowed for much greater user conversion Show less



Coco

• Design
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Developer

  • Jul 2020 - Aug 2020

  Los Angeles, California, United States Coco's First Mobile Engineer. Hired to architect initial app launch. Delivered a flexible one-stop mobile app for robot-transported food and household items allowing users to create accounts, and place and manage orders -Designed a React Native mobile application using Flask backend api endpoints to serve core functions -Created a Firebase backend to store user information, added Google sign-in functionality and migrated user account data to MongoDB storage allowing for scalable… Show more Coco's First Mobile Engineer. Hired to architect initial app launch. Delivered a flexible one-stop mobile app for robot-transported food and household items allowing users to create accounts, and place and manage orders -Designed a React Native mobile application using Flask backend api endpoints to serve core functions -Created a Firebase backend to store user information, added Google sign-in functionality and migrated user account data to MongoDB storage allowing for scalable storage of user data -Implemented seamless in-app payment options using Stripe and ApplyPay -Revamped location services allowing for growth of service by fetching region-dependent inventories Show less



Verizon Media

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Software Engineering Intern

  • Jun 2019 - Sep 2019

  San Francisco Bay Area -Worked on summer internship with Yahoo Gemini Native Ad platform team to replace an account history Oracle DB by implementing an Apache Druid datastore to allow for real-time data analytics of customer activity. -Identified major business needs and generated analytical queries to gain important insight from user data -Minimized latency between application and db by configuring for real-time ingestion of events, reduced storage footprint by 65%, and analyzed performance by ingesting… Show more -Worked on summer internship with Yahoo Gemini Native Ad platform team to replace an account history Oracle DB by implementing an Apache Druid datastore to allow for real-time data analytics of customer activity. -Identified major business needs and generated analytical queries to gain important insight from user data -Minimized latency between application and db by configuring for real-time ingestion of events, reduced storage footprint by 65%, and analyzed performance by ingesting over 700 million individual rows. -Maximized retention period of historical data through configuration of highly scalable, tiered data storage -Supported usability team wide by integrating datastore with Apache Superset data visualizer Show less



Stylify

• Czechia
• Retail Apparel and Fashion

• Software Development Intern

  • Jan 2019 - Jun 2019

  Greater Los Angeles Area -Improved data filtering speeds within app by implementing a Hive cluster with AWS Elastic MapReduce which allowed efficient, client-side searching of data -Created Python-based back-end functionality to queue AWS hosted DynamoDB data for a user’s purchase history -Wrote back-end functionality allowing user to submit a return request for an item from purchase history



Optum

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Technology Development Program Intern

  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  -Streamlined communication between business analysts and developers by creating an in-browser Gherkin editor which automatically updates CA Agile Central for all users. -Developed view logic in React on top of a SpringBoot backend and Docker container. -Followed modern Agile and ATDD practices using CA Agile Central, Jenkins, and Cucumber.



Calabrio, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Software Development Intern

  • Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Minneapolis, MN -Quality assurance work through manual testing of software for defects and confirming resolved defects -Designed and implemented selenium based, automated tests to detect and report software defects -Conducted security and performance tests to ensure a secure and efficient product -Designed and implemented API tests to holistically ensure the products effectiveness



Tonka Taxi

• United States

• Co-Founder

  • Jun 2014 - Aug 2017

  Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area Pre-Uber. Founded a local car and boat service; providing a safe, convenient transportation alternative to a loyal, growing client base. Customer growth and acquisition through online marketing.



True Value Company

• United States
• Wholesale
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sales Associate

  • Jun 2013 - Aug 2015

  Spring Park, MN Store employee managing cash register while assisting in completion of customers' projects. Provided hands on experiences with customers while suggesting plans to cater to the desires of customers and the projects they intended to complete. Built and assembled floor products in store including grills and benches.