Front-end Developer in Philadelphia, PA, United States

An online version of the board game hive written in JavaScript. Multiplayer is implemented using WebSockets and a Python webserver. The game includes all the classic pieces from the board game hive and custom fan-created pieces, many of which are my own creation.

The app is designed to function in both online and offline modes. It uses WebSockets for multiplayer and chat functionality. I am currently working on adding a replay system.

A web app for coordinating students, teachers, makers, and volunteers at one of the world's largest makerspaces. The application also has a permissions API and an RFID system to ensure that members and visitors cannot operate equipment, use supplies, or access the building without proper authorization.

During my tenure at TXRX Labs, I volunteered as the vice president and taught several dozen classes in rapid prototyping, 3D printing, CNC manufacturing, Python, JavaScript, and more. The makerspace grew from a few dozen people in a 4,000 square foot space to a 40,0000-square-foot multi-building teaching 3,000+ students yearly. The web portal I made helped ease the administrative burden of coordinating the various roles in the organization. I am confident that the lab could not have undergone 10x growth in two years without the web portal and associated infrastructure.

Proscia's digital pathology platform is used to explore, annotate, and analyze whole slide images for clinical and research pathology. I was the sole front-end programmer for the refactor and redesign of Proscia's digital pathology platform. I rewrote the entire front end from scratch, eliminating five years of tech debt and reducing the repository size threefold.

Because the API team was simultaneously rewriting the back end for the app, I wrote the application to function in standalone mode. The API connection could be disabled via the feature flag. This meant the front end could function independently from the API, storing all information in RAM only. Developing with both online and offline capabilities reduced the overhead of not having to run the full stack during development which allowed for faster development, easier debugging, and an overall more stable product.

During this process, I upgraded the platform to Vue 3, standardized the data store, and built a custom component library. I also built functional, snapshot, unit, and integration tests for the application and created a detailed list of user stories and acceptance criteria to make future development more stable.

MyNico sought to disrupt the rental industry by offering tenants partial ownership in the investment company's portfolio. Because the goal was to disrupt the tenant-landlord relationship, this project underwent many revisions and stages of rapid prototyping, adding and removing features on the fly. There were also legal constraints because the app combined both investment and commercial services, necessitating multiple checkout systems in order to comply with regulations. I worked very closely with the company to refine their business model and quickly explore what solutions fit their particular needs.

As the primary developer, I had to make many feature flags that would work in any combination. The app had to work with multiple CRMs, payment processors, and other third-party APIs. This meant that our database was not the source of truth for most of the data on the site, and most data was cached or fetched on the fly.