Full Stack Software Engineer currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area
About Me
In late 2018, I decided to invest five months of my time into Hack Reactor, a software engineering immersive program based out of San Francisco, where I learned from veterans in the field, and rapidly developed my skills in full-stack development.
Here, I also learned a myriad of new habits and workflows. On dozens of occasions, I had the opportunity to work in teams of various sizes, where I practiced scrum methodology, which I've continued to utilize in my personal projects after the program.
Today, I am leading and contributing to a handful of passion projects, where I have the opportunity to ensure quality code and workflow.
Beyond this, I have been fortunate to have built out a solid and reliable network of like-minded individuals. I continue to do so each week through tech-related events and Meetups.
Projects
DeveloperWeek 2019 Hackathon - 2nd Place Overall
In February of this year, I participated in the DeveloperWeek SF Hackathon, where I had the opportunity to work with a diverse and passionate team. Together, we built a full stack application utilizing DocuSign’s eSignature verification and Clarifai’s image recognition. Our team, Clarisign, won 2nd place overall, among 150 teams.
Clarisign utilizes the DocuSign API for eSignature verification, and the Clarifai API for image/facial recognition. Designed with the business proposition of adding an additional verification step to ensure secure package delivery, requiring signature and facial recognition of the recipient for a complete delivery.
A few of my other recent projects QueryMasters - System design & backend development of an e-commerce reviews component
Scaled a reviews component in order to meet and handle web-scale traffic with a throughput of 1,000 requests per second and an error rate under 1%, querying a PostgreSQL database of 50 million records
Deployed to an AWS Virtual Private Cloud, allowing for use of an Auto Scaling Group and Elastic Load Balancer with EC2, to distribute traffic across multiple Regions and Availability Zones
Critique Eats - Dynamic header component for an e-commerce product page
Using the Scrum methodology, developed and deployed a fullstack app to AWS, using React, Express, and MongoDB
Containerized the app using Docker in order to implement rapid and flexible deployment
Styled app using React CSS Modules to address CSS specificity, avoiding conflict between modules
Integrated Trello with Github to encourage transparency and peer-review with a team of four
Used the Last.fm API to create a search feature and dashboard to display summarized data returned from the platform’s database
Organized data by date and various rankings in order to best represent user information
CUNY-IBM Watson Case Competition - Semi-Finalist
In early 2018, I took part in a cross-disciplined, CUNY-wide annual competition known as the CUNY-IBM Watson Case Competition. The CUNY-IBM Watson Case Competition is a collaboration between Baruch College’s Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, IBM Corporate Citizenship, the City University of New York, and the New York City Government.
My team, DataPass, chose to focus on improving the NYC Electronic Medical Records system, by designing a decentralized store where EMR could be both stored and analyzed by IBM Watson.
Here is a brief Case Analysis my team put together which advanced us into the semi-finals:
And here is the Executive Summary I wrote to be submitted to a panel of leaders in local government and healthcare:
