Participated in company Hackathon
Reason for leaving:  No .NET clients at that time, so I left for other work.

Full Stack Web Developer

Grocery Shopper

• Kept customers happy and a rating of at least 4.8 stars at all times.
• Ran grocery services and learned how to make profit on the upper 1/6th of grocery orders.
• Kept mileage low while finding the best spots for work.

• Scanned the codebase for performance enhancements and reported them to the Technology Lead.
• Debugged complex Entity Framework to support Kendo Grid sorting, filters and pagination.
• Evaluated possible improvements of the software design, based on customer requests.
• Tech Stack: ASP.NET MVC, .NET Framework 4.8, SQL, SQL Server, and Redis.

R&D Software Engineer

• Assigned temporary Lead over the .NET Core REST API backend project and worked in a two-man team for CIBT’s .NET projects.
• Developed a RESTful API receiving form data from various Web apps and to feed into various REST APIs in our network to process Travel Visa Applications.
• Slimmed down .NET Core Docker images into containers with better performance and wrote documentation for future repeatability.

Software Developer

• Used LambdaTest to automate and track web, mobile and end-to-end testing of the MP2Energy website, eliminating the need for expensive physical devices and extra work.
• Automated Postman API calls from Azure Pipelines to record metrics for the Executive team and Business Analysts.
• Transformed web designs from UX team and custom content into working ReactJS UI Components.
• Wrote REST API calls using NextJS, Typescript and Axios to streamline user interface performance

• Attended required training sessions and seminars
• Learned land navigation, triage and weapons reassembly and cleaning
• Learned aquatic survival skills and basic drill and ceremony

Infantry Soldier - Specialist

• Brought critical performance issues found in Stored Procedures across all SQL Server databases to the attention of the Chief Technology Officer for remediation.
• Diagnosed malfunctions in the Mobile App solving or performing root cause analysis for up to 3 daily support tickets.
• Used Splunk to track and prioritize high-volumes of C# and SQL errors for triage.

Software Engineer

• Developed robust vendor bidding site that finds contractors for building new homes.
• Implemented UI components using React Hooks with multiple best practices and patterns.
• Developed Kendo UI grids using ReactJS and LESS (CSS) to ensure the possibility for flexible UI changes maintaining simplicity.

Software Application Developer

• Created a new UI for a new document management API, using Angular 9, Typescript and RXJS.
• Pair programmed an API and SQL Database for mapping wholesale loans and documents and deployed it using Jenkins.
• Retrofitted legacy code into a CLI using C#.

Full Stack Software Developer

• Recognized by lead IT manager for tackling new technologies and chosen to evangelize new Dataview360 web service endpoint synchronization software.
• Pair programmed an auxiliary calculator for processing loan schedules and during second sprint increased its processing throughput by up to 1500% using asynchronous threading and C#.
• Resolved front-end WPF bugs for Cash Store application in an Agile work setting.

Solutions Developer II

• Scripted around 40 automated CypressJS unit tests for smoke, regression and end-to-end testing for the CEO.
• Ran HP Fortify scans catching more than 20 potential information leaks and risky ReactJS or C# modules for the US Navy and DoD.
• Contributed some code ideas to the lead architect and his electric meter tracking system for an Oncor Energy project.

Junior Full Stack Developer

Junior .NET Engineer

Set up basic Jenkins builds for railway simulation software and worked on some R&amp;D concerning the Eggplant UI testing suite. Some basic coding with Perl, SQL and Linux before trying out C# (and loving it).

Splunk

Jenkins

Google Earth

Junior Software Engineer

Perl

Linux

Intern

• Collaborated with the Finance team on custom forms and validation for Car Capital’s insurance, employment and an MVC service for vehicle EINs.
• Worked several JIRA bugs and stories for the DEALS Car Financing software system in collaboration with the Senior developers.
• Improved on requirements gathering with great feedback from the team.

VueJS

Razor Pages

ASP.NET

SQL Server

AlpineJS

jQuery

Full-Stack Engineer

We modernized and refactored 3 projects for Four Hands furniture, upgrading the performance and developer experience. Created a powerful translator for the development team to transform all 60 of their internal marketplace projects into modernized versions while retaining all business logic and avoiding impacts to the business budget.

Retail Associate

Code Mechanic, martial artist & Linux enthusiast. ❤️s animals and C# & will talk your ear off ⚠️.

gumroad

projects

github

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