My joy as an engineer is in delivering a well designed, thoughtful product that works.

SKILLS

Frontend: React/Typescript, HTML, CSS, Templates, UX and mockups
Backend: Node/Express, Go, Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, designing APIs
DBs: Postgresql, MongoDB
CLI: go/cobra
CI/CD: Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CircleCI
Other: Product life cycle, testing, releases, content management systems, educational systems

EXPERIENCE

SynthesisAI, Software Engineer
San Francisco, Feb 2021 - Dec 2023

  • Learned golang and quickly began contributing to the code bases that form the product (CLI, API server, content generation pipeline, FE). Refactored a section of the api server code to be more modular, simplifying future feature adds
  • Owned product feature implementations: designed json specification for customer input, solved the domain logic and updated API endpoints, coordinated with the CG team for their needed input for their pipeline, following up post implementation by running the product to do a visual QA and outputs check, writing the docs and coordinating release to production
  • Solved domain logic challenges: created a complex query involving a shared pool of randomized results optimally distributed within specified subgroups while preventing duplicates. Implemented content metadata as a way to abstract building tedious lists and provide complex filtering of parameters, simplifying the user experience tenfold
  • Microservice architecture: Designed and built a custom CMS (MERN stack) for the metadata attached to our CG content data, reducing update time from 30 min full code deployment to a fractions of a second hitting an endpoint

D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere) - Software Engineer
San Francisco, Sep 2018 - Apr 2020 Documentation Team:

  • Maintained legacy static site code and builds for multiple versions of docs using CI/CD pipeline tooling, rapid response to any build failures and troubleshooting content display issues.
  • Owned the time-sensitive design, implementation, and deployment of a site refactor to accommodate tripled product docs during a high growth phase Conductor Team (B2B Learning Platform Startup within D2IQ):
  • Contributed multiple smaller design features transitioning from a POC to beta learning web app, adding both usability and interactivity such as quizzes, task completion feedback, and user account management
  • Researched, implemented, and deployed a temporary content management system (NetlifyCMS), drastically increasing the ability of writers to contribute learning content

App Academy — Hacker in Residence
San Francisco, Jan 2018 - Jul 2018

  • Hired part time post graduation, led technical and non-technical interviews with prospective students, assessing algorithmic aptitude in a variety of programming languages including Ruby, Python, Javascript and Java
  • Teaching assistant: Taught basic programming (Ruby) to more than 100 students as part of an evening bootcamp prep program

Personal Circumstances — Family Illness 2015-2017
My mother was dealing with end stage kidney failure and I came home from Germany, learned the accounting, farming and payroll practices for the farm management company she was the controller of, and helped her to continue doing what she loved most (running the business) up until the very end.

Emos Software GmbH — Product Design and Research
Deggendorf, Germany, Jun 2014 - Feb 2015

  • Mobile first UX/UI design using Balsamiq for a video streaming startup, filling in for lack of PM
  • Contributed to setting up and maintaining a bilingual Community Support Portal using Zendesk
  • Researched and advised on varying privacy laws between EU and US markets

Planet Mutlu — Jr. iOS Developer
Bremen, Germany, Sep 2013 - Jun 2014

  • Developed a hydration app for drinking enough fluids each day
  • Refactored older client apps to accommodate iOS deprecations
  • Advised on social media trends and American culture to guide english-language marketing strategies

Various Work Experience during University Years

  • Parking Enforcement Officer, Training Officer
  • Bus Driver (CA class B license)
  • Orientation Leader
  • Academic Advisor
  • Motorcycle Service Writer
  • Grocery Clerk
  • Legal Secretary
  • Security Dispatcher for Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet
  • Ambulance Dispatcher for Falck, LA and Orange County division

Formal Education

App Academy — Coding Bootcamp Oct 2017 - Jan 2018, San Francisco, CA One of the top 5 coding bootcamps in SF. Fullstack: Ruby/Rails/mySQL/JS/HTML/CSS/React

University of Bremen — Erasmus Mundus Scholarship 2011-2013, Bremen, Germany German Medieval Literature to the Renaissance

CSU Long Beach — MA German Literature
2010, Long Beach, CA German Literature from the Renaissance to Current Trends

CSU Fullerton - BA German Studies 2008, Fullerton, CA