Experience

Codesmith

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer & Lead Instructor

  • Apr 2022 - Present

  • Developed and maintained internal tools, public site, and JavaScript learning platform with 165k+ annual users.• Employed Docker containers to facilitate consistent development environments across platforms, streamline workflows, and improve code integrations and deployment processes.• Integrated SQL data models and a query wrapper to offer an ORM-like solution for database queries, improving developer experience around readability, maintainability, and testability.• Expanded Jest and Enzyme testing suites to ensure a replicable TDD environment, verifying the proper rendering of React / Redux components and the functionality of Express middleware.• Provided technical training to junior engineers on core technologies including React, Redux, Node.js, Express, SQL, and MongoDB, as well as on fundamental concepts such as data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and time complexity.• Onboarded and mentored engineering teams through complete Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC), emphasizing Agile methodology, positive team dynamics, and comprehensive code reviews in order to ensure successful, on-time product launches.• Conducted technical interviews of prospective engineers focusing on in-depth JavaScript knowledge, technical communication, debugging skills, and overall company fit.• Effectively managed a team of 10 contractors and 2 full-time direct reports, driving completion of projects and iteration on processes. Show less

• Software Engineer & Engineering Instructor

  • Jan 2021 - Apr 2022


CS Engineering
• United Kingdom
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Software Engineer

  • 2021 - Present


lexiQL

• United States
• Software Development

• Software Engineer

  • 2021 - 2021

  • Engineered the central algorithm to produce boilerplate GraphQL schema configurations (including types, mutations, and resolvers) out of user-inputted relational database tables. • Leveraged React Context API and Hooks to comprehensively manage stateful logic by deploying updated state to modularized functional components, avoiding unnecessary component re-rendering, decreasing potential for errors by eliminating unnecessary prop-drilling, and enabling more declarative code. • Utilized React Router to create dynamic, declarative routes within an SPA, decreasing server calls with client-side routing while displaying multiple page views and measurably improving application TTI. • Designed a responsive, interactive visualizer for relational database tables and relationships, featuring custom nodes built with the React Flow data visualization library in order to render a meaningful custom database model. • Harnessed Sass to produce readable stylesheets, increasing reusability with variables and maintaining organized file structure by using distinct stylesheets for different React components and importing them into a single compiled CSS sheet for preprocessing. • Employed Node.js / Express for its event-driven, non-blocking input/output model, applying the middleware design pattern to produce a segmented backend featuring multiple modularized routers and controllers. • Configured custom Webpack to exercise granular control over file bundling by minifying and uglifying code to achieve a more efficient compiling and rendering process, while leveraging hot module reloading and server proxies for faster development environment. • Managed engineering team following Scrum and Agile methodology, unifying team efforts in an organized and efficient manner by maintaining daily stand-ups and sprint reviews. • Product developed under tech accelerator OS Labs (opensourcelabs.io). Show less



Open Source

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• algoLife | Algorithm solving platform with in-browser testing

  • 2020 - 2021

  • Implemented TypeScript’s static typing system in combination with Redux in order to manage stateful logic in line with the observer design pattern, producing testable and modular code while reducing runtime errors and minimizing prop-drilling.• Integrated custom unit tests written in Mocha / Chai testing libraries in order to conduct live in-browser testing of user-inputted solutions.• Developed persistent authentication with JWTs to ensure application security by verifying authenticated users, improving UX by preventing unnecessary logins and access by malicious actors while avoiding session ID / database calls.• Deployed a relational database with emphasis on ACID compliance, organizing scalable one-to-many relationships between tables while minimizing potential bugs with strictly-enforced schemas. Show less

• Yak Yak Yak | Websocket-powered anonymous live message board

  • 2020 - 2021

  • Utilizing React’s modular component architecture, constructed a responsive SPA composed of reusable, scalable components, thus streamlining development of UI elements to facilitate easier debugging and maintenance.• Injected Redux state management library to manage frontend state, limiting prop-drilling while maximizing efficiency by maintaining a single source of truth and ensuring that components re-render only as a result of mutations to subscribed components.• Designed RESTful API architecture in Node.js / Express to serve CRUD requests through custom routes and middleware, using JWTs to securely handle authenticated sessions and Bcrypt to verify password information, and implemented strong global error handling for erroneous endpoints.• Facilitated real-time user posting by employing WebSocket library, harnessing its fast reaction time and continuous updates to handle high-frequency messaging and up/downvoting with small payloads. Show less

• Egghead | Interactive flashcard study tool

  • 2020 - 2021

  • Leveraged React’s unidirectional data flow to precisely manage state updates, allowing for customization and recycling within the component hierarchy, thus reducing code redundancy and maximizing modularity.• Integrated client-side routing with React Router, using static routes to minimize requests to the backend APIs and limit taxing DOM re-rendering, and architected navigational flow to increase SPA performance and optimize UX.• Structured a Node.js / Express server to field HTTP requests effectively, enlisting the middleware design pattern to accommodate multiple endpoints and respond declaratively to requests.• Designed a non-relational database schema to store simple one-to-one relationship data points, enable seamless queries based on complex combinations of filters, and promote maintainability and scalability. Show less