Experience, Software Engineering
Curology
Senior Software Engineer
September 2022 - January 2024
- Technologies used: Laravel, Typescript, React, Git, Github.
Nordstrom Technology
- Member of Developer Experience teams building internal tools used by Nordstrom's thousands of technology employees.
- Technologies used: Node, Express, React, Mocha, Python, Pytest, Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab CI, Git, Gitlab.
Senior Software Engineer
July 2019 - November 2021
- Technical lead on project to produce standardized Docker images for company-wide use. Designed and worked with two other developers to build a Python script to build, validate, and publish images from Dockerfiles to container registries. Liaised with community members who contributed new images or image requests.
- As part of Nordstrom's Engineering Standards initiative, wrote and maintained the Software Documentation and Testing standards.
- Supported the internship program via mentoring, interviewing candidates, and attending campus and conference recruiting events.
Software Engineer
July 2018 - July 2019
- Built and maintained web applications with React, Node, Express, and Koa.
- Worked on Python script that scraped data from internal web sites and inserted into an Elasticsearch store for later use by an API.
- Led performance refactor project for React app and its backing Node/Express API, improving page load times up to 50%.
Drift Marketplace
Software Engineer
Feb 2017 - April 2018
- Member of engineering team of four in an early stage, green energy focused startup. Worked closely with design and marketing teams to take the product through alpha, beta, and public launches and Series A funding.
- Responsible for entire back end of user facing product. Led projects, delivered features, squashed bugs, and wrote unit and integration tests in codebase using Go, Protocol Buffers, and boltDB (a noSQL key/value store).
- Delivered accessible, responsive front end features, using HTML5, CSS3, SASS, and vanilla Javascript, to meet UX specs. Used vis.js and Google Charts libraries to build dynamic data visualizations for customer and internal use.
- Spearheaded documentation maintenance and organization. Mentored teammates who were new Go.
- Handled assorted third party integrations as they arose: Stripe, Plaid, Google Analytics with custom events, Google Tag Manager, Friendbuy (marketing partner). Built and maintained our blog's Wordpress instance.
- Managed production deploys, using Concourse automation.
- Technologies used: Golang, HTML, CSS, vanilla Javascript, Bolt DB, Protocol Buffers, Concourse (for CI/CD), Git, Github.
Glowforge
Software Engineer
February 2016 - August 2016
- Member of six person engineering team in early stage hardware startup.
- Delivered accessible, responsive, well tested front end code to user facing product, using HTML, SASS, and React with Redux architecture.
- Delivered well tested, robust features for Rails back end of user facing product, including SQL to access relational database.
- Participated in requirements definition for customer facing web application in preparation for and in support of beta launch.
- Technologies used: React, Redux, Mocha, Ruby on Rails, Docker, Git, Github.
Northwest Independent Ruby Development
Consultant
June 2013 - February 2016
- Worked on a wide variety of sizes and types of projects: prototypes, new products to market, existing products with thousands or millions of active daily users. Roles varied per project: solo dev, part of internal team, or embedded in client company.
- Led development teams for multiple client projects. This included requirements gathering, project management, and engineering team management.
- Mentored teammates in technical and professional development. Built curriculum for internal and external trainings on Angular and Rails.
Experience, Software Education
University of Washington, Information School
Guest Lecturer, Cooperative Software Development
March 2021 - present
University of Washington, Continuum College
Instructor, Certificate in Front End Development with HTML, CSS, and Javascript
August 2014 - March 2021
Advisory Board Member, Certificate in Front End Development with HTML, CSS, and Javascript
January 2014 - March 2021
Honors
Engineering Excellence Award, Curology Commercial Organization 2023
Values Award: Accountability, Curology 2023
Engineering Excellence Award, Nordstrom Platform Engineering Organization
2019
Teaching Excellence Award, University of Washington
2018
Featured Guest on KUOW's The Record
October 26, 2017
Listen to program here: http://kuow.org/post/record-thursday-october-26-2017
Education
University of Washington, Continuum College
Certificate, Ruby Programming
Florida Atlantic University
Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts