Experience

Policygenius

• United States
• Insurance
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Site Reliability Engineer

  • 2020 - Present



Stride

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Developer

  • Feb 2019 - Jul 2020

  Enterprise Reinsurance Company - Terraform, AWS, Docker • Customized Gruntwork modules to build AWS Terraform infrastructure for an Angular + .NET web application • Provisioned build tools for in-house Windows developers using Docker, PowerShell, and SQL Server • Coached team members on infrastructure best practices, from AWS multi-account management to Terraform modularization and versioning

• Software Developer III

  • May 2018 - Feb 2019

  Commercial Insurance Company - Python, React, PostgreSQL • Built greenfield single platform underwriter application in React/Redux and Python (Flask) • Increased unit and integration test coverage with pytest and Jest • Served as team scrum master, facilitating sprint planning, review, demo, and retro Internal Projects • Co-designed agile interview • Facilitated pair programming interviews for mid and senior level candidates

• Software Developer II

  • Sep 2017 - May 2018

  Biomedical Startup - Rails, React, PHP • Rebuilt legacy PHP site in React on Rails, enabling passwordless checkout and resulting in conversion rate increasing by 51% • Coached team members on TDD and pair programming



Simon & Schuster

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Ruby on Rails Developer

  • 2016 - 2017

  + Built iterative features through MVC design and collaborative domain modeling + Ensured successful execution of Resque jobs that query external APIs, update and persist database records, and deliver files to 3rd party vendors + Refactored test suites to resolve randomly failing specs and decrease overall runtime + Redesigned layout and views for product pages using CSS Grid and Flexbox + Built iterative features through MVC design and collaborative domain modeling + Ensured successful execution of Resque jobs that query external APIs, update and persist database records, and deliver files to 3rd party vendors + Refactored test suites to resolve randomly failing specs and decrease overall runtime + Redesigned layout and views for product pages using CSS Grid and Flexbox



Groundwork Software

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer Apprentice

  • 2015 - 2016



Teach For America

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Corps Member

  • 2013 - 2015