Computer Engineering

Provided technical product ownership in micro frontend architecture and developer ergonomics.

Co-lead a team of 15+ front end developers writing applications serving ~20M monthly active users.

Coordinated the upgrade of 30+ user-facing JSTOR applications to new Django and Python versions with no down time.

Identified infrastructure cost reductions and non-profit vendor discounts, saving over $50K annually.

Created, released, and oversaw maintenance of apiron, ITHAKA's first actively-maintained open source software.

Worked with design, brand, and product development to define the direction and lead the implementation of the Pharos design system.

Built an internal code and architecture documentation system using Sphinx, and documented learning paths for future documentation efforts.

Worked with engineering leadership to create diversified avenues for team learning and discussion, resulting in mentorship groups, open office hours, and recurring tech talk spaces.

Lead Web Application Developer

Developed capabilities and competencies in modular software for developer productivity and platform stability.

Principal Engineer

Championed and coordinated the transition to HTTPS for all user-facing pages on the JSTOR platform.

Helped transition core JSTOR functionality from a proprietary CMS to AWS-hosted Django applications.

Represented ITHAKA and JSTOR as a speaker at 4 technical conferences nationally and internationally.

Designed and implemented continuous integration and publishing pipelines for internally-shared Python software.

Took Build Smarter, a public-facing outlet for our technical learnings, from concept to reality in collaboration with design and marketing.

Web Application Developer

Guided the evolution of the architecture and software development life cycle.

Designed and guided implementation of a scalable link shortening and interaction analytics system for SMS-based communication campaigns.

Integrated feature flagging for decoupled development of incomplete features without risk of exposure to users.

Developed and guided execution of strategy to transition to API-first development to support a new line of API-based business.

Designed and implemented an end-to-end CI/CD workflow from pre-commit validations to automated testing and merge-based deployments.

Designed and led the migration from Google Cloud Platform to Amazon Web Services.

Technology Advisor

Compendia Bioscience was acquired by Life Technologies in October 2012 for an undisclosed amount, and Life Technologies was acquired by Thermo Fisher in February 2014 for $13.6B.

Built a feature extraction and translation tool for Variant Call Format (VCF) files.

Optimized and scaled a bioinformatics processing pipeline to hundreds of oncogenomics datasets. 

Introduced tight feedback loops in our data processing pipeline to save developers potentially hours of wasted time on a daily basis.

Designed and built internal tools to support our data curation and research teams.

Software Engineer II

Designed, developed, and implemented algorithms for C/C++ applications in computer vision and automatic target recognition.

Software Development Engineer

Updated and maintained source code for various C/C++ applications.

Software Engineering Intern

Guiding the evolution of ITHAKA's UI Engineering platform and practices to enable our mission to provide affordable access to knowledge and education for people around the world.

Technical Architect

Author of Publishing Python Packages 🐍📦⬆ and Practices of the Python Pro 🐍📘 Technical Architect at ITHAKA

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