Work Experience

July 2024 – Present

Software Developer III

  • Frontend development lead for a CRM and content creation platform built with React and Next.js
  • Established SAML and OAuth connectivity for the Canva API, leveraging PKCE flow with SHA-256 encoding and verification
  • Scoped contexts for persistent state management within defined boundaries to reduce network traffic and optimize memory consumption

June 2023 – July 2024

Team Leader, Product Development

  • Launched company's first public-facing .NET APIs, opening the platform to external partners
  • Directed engineering teams in onboarding third-party vendors, defining connectivity standards
  • Championed a structured testing discipline with quality benchmarks to reduce regression risk

Sept 2021 – June 2023

Software Developer II

  • Introduced organization to enterprise NoSQL platforms with auto-scaling cloud infrastructure
  • Migrated a terabyte of SQL Server data to Azure Cosmos DB, alleviating costs of on-premises servers
  • Developed eventually consistent data replication pipelines with Apache Spark to maintain legacy reports

Sept 2019 – Sept 2021

Trainee → Software Developer I

  • Earned MVP recognition during the developer training program for peer mentorship and technical merit
  • Delivered regulatory compliance updates ahead of competitors using a stangler pattern to route loans based on submission date
  • Led development of RESTful income calculation APIs, eliminating manual underwriting processes performed in Excel macros

Education

Michigan State University

Bachelor of Arts, Elementary Education — May 2015