Software Engineer
2016 - 2018Aspiration Partners, LLC- Designed and delivered an SOA system for financial account opening and management.
- Implemented a solution for the processing and storage of PII and other sensitive data.
- Increased the account security by building a 2FA solution.
- Mitigated the amount of fraud by setting up a system for identity verification.
- Built a mechanism for migrating users from one banking partner to another.
- Optimized the performance via algorithms and query tuning; in one case, reducing the job execution time from eight hours to under one second.
- Proactively identified and communicated risks to management; created plans to mitigate risk in each of the projects.
- Managed the application deployment and post-deployment verification.
- Delivered improvements to internal admin portal built on React and Node.js.
- Implemented a system for ingesting files from a banking partner using Python.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Vault, GraphQLTech Lead
2014 - 2016The Honest Company, Inc.- Increased the customer conversion rate by 10% by optimizing the performance and UX of a web-based checkout flow.
- Enhanced an order management system with the capability to fulfill an order from multiple distribution centers.
- Built and A/B tested experimental features on top of an existing platform.
- Managed a cross-functional team of eight developers.
- Ensured the application performance by monitoring the system and delivering optimization patches.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Optimizely, MongoDB, CoffeeScriptSoftware Engineer
2013 - 2014Fiksu, Inc.- Developed a customer-facing web portal for the management of advertising campaigns.
- Crafted APIs and interactive data visualizations.
- Designed and delivered rapid prototypes of web GUIs.
- Expanded the functionality and improved the performance of administrative tools.
- Wrote and executed database migrations.
- Improved API performance via database query tuning.
- Integrated a web portal with Stripe.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Highcharts, MySQL