Experiences
Software Engineer III
Credit Karma
Charlotte, NC
December 2017 - Present
- Added features to the tax filing product using React, Redux, Emotion, and Spring
- Helped add monetization to the tax product for the first time using GraphQL
- Created APIs for the native app to communicate with the fraud detection service using PHP, TypeScript and GraphQL
- Added fraud detection logic to the legacy codebase using PHP
- Created interactive graphs using tax data with React, Victory.js and GraphQL
Software Engineer & Co-Founder
Youxpert
Charlotte, NC
January 2016 - June 2017
- Architected Ruby on Rails healthcare platform for San Francisco based startup MPI Cognition to demonstrate their patient record file system service to 15+ doctors during user testing sessions.
- Engineered ecommerce website Relax, Let Us Work using Wix, SEO and Google Analytics allowing users to purchase personal concierge services online, increasing sales by 40%
- Conducted user research, cognitive walkthroughs and A/B testing for parental control startup, Zabra , which led to 50% increase in site visitors per week.
- Developed company corporate site using JavaScript, ES6, and ReactJS, increasing sales by > 60% after launch.
Full Stack Software Engineering Intern
Carbon Five
San Francisco, CA
May 2016 - August 2016
- Met with startup founders daily to discuss features, suggest designs and explain agile development
- Gave advice during scrum meetings and strategized methods for solving software issues in a short-cycle, iterative, and agile environment
- Developed credit card and personal information authentication system using JavaScript, ReactJS, Redux and Ruby on Rails for Swell Investing’s stock trading platform.
- Followed TDD in creating socially responsible investment system, achieving 90%+ code coverage writing 60+ unit tests utilizing Jest, Enzyme and RSpec.
- Developed the user interface and the PDF generator for a React app that gets parents and kids together for an agreement about being responsible with new technology. Increasing visitors by 30%.
- Re-engineered front end and implemented Instagram feed to internal company dashboard using Sass, Ruby and Sinatra, increasing employee participation in all three offices by over 40%.
- Added features to an internal company Slack Bot using the Ruby Slack Client library, improving employee timekeeping
2016 Fellow
CODE2040
San Francisco, CA
June 2016 - August 2016
- Selected to be one of eighty-seven fellows out of nine hundred applicants for an intensive summer career accelerator in San Francisco
- Participated in a series of career building sessions on evenings and weekends at startups throughout the city
- Voted Most Likely to Become an Entrepreneur
- Went to workshops and networking events at the offices of: Galvanize, Carbon Five, Stitch Fix, Macy's, Twitter, Clover Health, Medium, NerdWallet, GitHub, CircleCI, Stripe, Envoy, TaskRabbit, Slack, Google and LinkedIn
Full Stack Software Engineering Intern
Hewlett-Packard
Corvallis, OR
May 2015 - August 2015
- Built, unit tested and added features to three Ruby on Rails web applications in 11 weeks using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap, RSpec, and Git in a Linux environment
- Wrote unit tests with RSpec and built the user interface with HTML and Sass for a customer-facing social media web app that received acclaim at demos in New York and Portland and The QVC Shopping Network.
- Designed automated tests using RSpec that measured the grading accuracy of a test grading app for local Oregon college students. Resulting in 0 bug reports after release.
- Gave advice during scrum meetings and strategized methods for solving software issues in a short-cycle, iterative, and agile environment
- Participated in usability testing events with cognitive walkthroughs
College of Engineering Dean's Office Assistant
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
October 2011 - May 2014
- Proofread documents and assembled materials for staff events, conferences and meetings
- Created digital copies of budget archives, increasing office storage space by 30%
- Assisted event coordinator in planning for an average of 3 office events per semester.
Volunteering Experience
Co-Founder & President
Advancing Innovative Minds
Charlotte, NC
September 2015 - December 2015
- Created a student organization to gather the university’s most innovative students and entrepreneurial resources to turn ideas into startup companies
- Gained fifty new members in four months, and held seminars with small business owners every two weeks.
- Designed the club web application with Rails, HTML, Sass and RSpec with built in online donations and user newsletter sign-up features, increasing membership sign ups by 150% and donations by 100%.
- Selected as a finalist in the North Carolina Social Entrepreneurship Competition.
- Won Best New Organization at UNC Charlotte out of 51 new organizations for demonstrating consistent flexibility, initiative, creativity, and perseverance.
Vice President & PCI Committee Member
National Society of Black Engineers
Charlotte, NC
October 2011 - May 2015
- Disseminating information among chapter members and alumni through the NSBE website
- Volunteer speaker for middle school academic development seminars
- Participating in Community Service and Mentoring Activities
- Created the new official website for the NSBE chapter at UNC Charlotte
Certifications
- Build a web app’s responsive layout and style appropriate to the user’s device using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript without the overhead of libraries or frameworks (such as jQuery)
- Use JavaScript to set up reliable front-end networking protocols with appropriate error handling
- Use accessibility best practices to make web apps accessible to all users, including those with visual, motor, hearing, and cognitive impairments
- Create progressive web apps that are available offline and provide a consistent, native-app-like experience
- Audit an app's performance to reduce page load times and maintain responsive user experiences
- Write unit tests that verify expected behaviors and diagnose common web-app problems
- Implement ES2015 syntax to perform common JavaScript tasks
- Design efficient and secure web forms with basic HTML in order to improve the user experience
Introduction to Product Management
Stanford University
- Studied how to interview potential users, find a product-market fit, test prototypes with customers and create product roadmaps
- Learned the creative problem-solving process called the Design Sprint. Used by Google Ventures and AJ&Smart to create product concepts and growth strategies
- Tackled several famous algorithms (Tower of Hanoi, The Knapsack Problem, Newton Raphson, and many search methods)
- Learned the fundamentals of data structures, recursion, testing and debugging
- Learned several software development processes (Agile (XP), Spiral, Waterfall & Rational Unified Process)
- Built a web application through Linux using Ruby on Rails, GitHub, and The Heroku Cloud Platform
- Studied how leadership works in different learning environments and practiced imagining the future of learning
- Learned all of the new features of HTML5 as well as making HTML5 apps
- Learned the history of educational technology and analyzed how different technologies teach users new information
- Learned the difference between PaaS, IaaS and SaaS, as well as when to use them
Publications
July 13th 2016
Creating a Digital Pedagogy: Exploring Online Learning Methods to Increase STEM Graduates
Westphalia Press
Students in the United States of America are falling behind in the global competition for employment in technological fields. The technology that led to this surge in competition may also be used to recreate this country’s educational system to prepare students for current and future technological industries. Doing so may improve the national economy, increase STEM graduates, improve tech employment diversity, and prepare students for the ever changing demands of companies in the Information Age.
Honors and Awards
April 20th 2015
Outstanding New Student Organization
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Selected out of 51 organizations created in 2014 for demonstrating consistent flexibility, initiative, creativity, and perseverance
December 5th 2014
Honorary Budding Scholar
The Dupont Summit
Invited to attend the 2014 Dupont Summit on Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Issues in Washington D.C. to present my research paper Creating a Digital Pedagogy: Exploring Online Learning Methods to Increase STEM Graduates