Experience

Pumpkin

• United States
• Insurance
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Dec 2022 - Present



Vault Workforce Screening

• United States
• Human Resources Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Oct 2020 - Dec 2022

  As a key contributor to creation of a new Clinical Trial platform: - Worked directly with clients to support data pipeline for a major clinical trial, explained technical constraints to healthcare professionals, wrote code to preserve integrity in trial data - Designed and wrote initial data models (SQLAlchemy/Alembic) - Built reliable APIs in data reporting pipeline, event logging, patient creation and clinical trial enrollment ensuring extensive test coverage, secure patient PHI, HIPAA compliance, SOC2 compliance - Refactored the authorization layer for all internal and external endpoints, improving code performance as well as stack-onboarding, upkeep, and testability by creating a reusable module As an early-stage engineer: - Triaged production outages and user-facing issues (on-call rotation) - Managed release to production (release-manager rotation) - Provided mentorship and guidance to new engineers as team grew to match demand during COVID, contributed to formation of an onboarding curriculum, interviewed prospective candidates Show less



Annalect

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • May 2018 - Oct 2020

  - Member of small "Annalect Labs" prototyping incubator: met with stakeholders to understand tech needs and bring new ideas to life with code - Designed and implemented the back-end of 3 applications, brought from prototype to fully-scaled global web-applications: providing actionable insights to thousands of daily users media/advertising professionals across the globe. - Developed algorithms to analyze audience behavior based on click-stream and other data sources, leveraging Python, SQL, and a variety of internally-developed (REST) and 3rd-party Machine Learning APIs, as well as AWS and GCP technologies - Updated stack from Python2 to Python3, migrated data warehousing & transfer pipeline to support GDPR compliance - Led regular tech talks / "lab" activities to introduce new technologies to engineering and promote technical literacy outside of engineering - Conducted interviews + helped with onboarding new "apprentice" engineers Show less



Carnegie Mellon University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2016 - Dec 2016

  TA for 21-241, Matrices and Linear Transformations, an introductory course in applied and theoretical linear algebra. Responsibilities included preparing and leading a weekly 50-minute recitation for a section of 30 students, holding office hours, and grading for exams and assignments. TA for 21-241, Matrices and Linear Transformations, an introductory course in applied and theoretical linear algebra. Responsibilities included preparing and leading a weekly 50-minute recitation for a section of 30 students, holding office hours, and grading for exams and assignments.



MathIly-Er

• Salem, Oregon

• Apprentice Instructor

  • Jun 2016 - Jul 2016

  Developed and executed daily Inquiry-Based Learning sessions for 20 students ages 14-17; taught mini-courses in Non-Euclidean Geometry, Topology, and Combinatorial Colorings (Graph Theory); wrote problem sets based on daily discussions and mentored students at this 5-week intensive summer math program Developed and executed daily Inquiry-Based Learning sessions for 20 students ages 14-17; taught mini-courses in Non-Euclidean Geometry, Topology, and Combinatorial Colorings (Graph Theory); wrote problem sets based on daily discussions and mentored students at this 5-week intensive summer math program



Carnegie Mellon University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • May 2015 - Jul 2015

  Received an NSF grant to conduct a research project of my choosing as a SUAMI fellow (Summer Undergraduate Applied Mathematics Institute) through the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie Mellon. (See publications) Received an NSF grant to conduct a research project of my choosing as a SUAMI fellow (Summer Undergraduate Applied Mathematics Institute) through the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie Mellon. (See publications)



Carnegie Mellon University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Course Assistant, 21-101 Fermat's Last Theorem

  • Jan 2015 - Mar 2015

  Served as an assignment grader and mentor for first-year students in a seminar about Fermat's Last Theorem: its history, the mathematicians involved in its proof, and the proof itself.

• Grader, 21-127 Concepts of Mathematics

  • Sep 2014 - Dec 2014

  Assignments grader for 21-127, Concepts of Mathematics, an introductory course in topics in discrete mathematics and proof writing.



Center for Nonlinear Analysis

• Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Undergraduate Researcher in Mathematics

  • May 2014 - Jul 2014

  Received an NSF grant to conduct a research project of my choosing as a SUAMI fellow (Summer Undergraduate Applied Mathematics Institute) through the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie Mellon. (See publications) Received an NSF grant to conduct a research project of my choosing as a SUAMI fellow (Summer Undergraduate Applied Mathematics Institute) through the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie Mellon. (See publications)



Frontier UK

• Koh Smach, Cambodia

• Field Research Assistant

  • May 2013 - Jun 2013

  Data collection for a study on coral reef habitats off the remote island of Koh Smach, in Cambodia. Data collection for a study on coral reef habitats off the remote island of Koh Smach, in Cambodia.