Résumé

Experience

1. 1. 

      Lead Web Application Developer

      ITHAKA

      2018–2021

      • Co-lead a team of 15 front end developers writing applications serving millions of active users.
      • 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.
      • Created, released, and oversaw maintenance of apiron, ITHAKA's first actively-maintained open source software.
      • Co-championed the value of a design system for the JSTOR platform. Worked with design, brand, and product development to define the direction and lead the implementation.
      • Built an internal code and architecture documentation system using Sphinx, and built a mind map to identify opportunities for knowledge sharing.
      • Coordinated the upgrade of 30+ user-facing JSTOR applications to new Django and Python versions with no down time.

   2. Web Application Developer

      ITHAKA

      2014–2018

      • Helped transition core JSTOR functionality from a proprietary CMS to AWS-hosted Django applications.
      • Took Build Smarter, a public-facing outlet for our technical learnings, from concept to reality in collaboration with design and marketing.
      • Championed the transition to HTTPS for all user-facing pages on the JSTOR platform.
      • 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.
2. 1. 

      Software Development Engineer II

      Thermo Fisher Scientific (Previously Life Technologies)

      2014

      • Built a feature extraction and translation tool for Variant Call Format (VCF) files.
      • Optimized and scaled a bioinformatics processing pipeline to hundreds of oncogemonics datasets.

   2. Software Development Engineer II

      Life Technologies (Previously Compendia Bioscience)

      2013–2014

      • Introduced tight feedback loops in our data processing pipeline to save developers potentially hours of wasted time.
      • Designed and built internal tools to support our data curation and research teams.

   3. Software Development Engineer

      Compendia Bioscience

      2012–2013

      • Integrated and operated a bioinformatics processing pipeline for oncogenomics datasets.
3. 1. 

      Software Development Engineer

      SAIC

      2011–2012

      • Developed novel inference algorithms for telemetry data.
      • Implemented an image processing algorithm to translate data between coordinate systems.
      • Retrofitted an existing prediction pipeline to enable dynamic input data.

   2. Software Engineering Intern

      SAIC

      2010–2011

      • Built an interactive graphical interface in MATLAB on top of existing software for easier analysis.

Skills