Career Profile
Driven Software Engineer with extensive experience working in AGILE teams.
Experience
Fortune 40 home improvement retailer headquartered in Charlotte, NC.
- Responsible for designing, maintaining, and implementing Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs for the Customer Loyalty Team , interfacing with Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL databases, as well as other internal and external APIs.
- Develops robust and performant tests, using JUnit and Cucumber, as well as Kibana and Grafana for logging and analytics.
- Processes 34 million transactions per year, with over $100M in rewards awarded to Pro customers. Handles 2.7 million individual organizations since Pro Loyalty launch in January 2022.
Smart Sourcing Company headquartered in Tallahassee, FL.
- Developed and worked as the founding engineer for Hire Wells, a smart talent, vendor, supplier, and contractor sourcing chatbot deployed to Slack and Microsoft Teams that simplifies the sourcing process for companies of all sizes.
- Created and maintained a tech stack consisting of AWS servers, a Python backend, JavaScript and HTML frontend, as well as Intercom, Slack, and Microsoft Teams APIs to create a streamlined, cross-platform experience.
Fortune 40 home improvement retailer headquartered in Charlotte, NC.
- Developed and maintained Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs for the Enterprise Customer team. Utilized CI/CD tools with Google Cloud Platform, Spinnaker, and Kubernetes. Created data retrieval systems for PostgreSQL and Couchbase Databases.
- Created metric logging systems and employed them to create performance test and metrics analysis to ensure efficiently working code. Employed Apache JMeter and Prometheus to create metrics and perform stress tests. Developed JUnit tests and used them to ensure all code was free of errors.
HVAC/R Smart Tools Company headquartered in Miramar, FL.
- Developed an advanced, cross-platform IoT consumer app that enables BLE connectivity with smart devices, employing Apache Cordova, Ionic, AngularJS and TypeScript technologies to create native experiences on Android and iOS.
- Developed CDN and cache protocols and more efficiency measures on the CPS USA, Europe, and Australia WordPress sites to increase the PageSpeed Insight score by more than 50% on each site.
Fintech and Financial Service Provider headquartered in Guadalajara, Mexico.
- Assisted in the planning, development, and implementation of various fintech services and products.
- Developed an advanced, cross-platform cybersecurity app that enables Zell customers to use two-factor authentication to log into sensitive web portals, employing server-side ASP.NET and client-side JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, while interfacing with SQL database servers.
Education
- Computer Science Degree with a concentration in Mathematics.
- Member of the ACM @ FSU Club, Cybersecurity Club, Chess Club, and HackFSU.
Projects
Octobot -
Open-source group expense tracking web app.
Open-source group expense tracking web app.
- Co-Creator and responsible for leading a team of 4 developers.
- Using the latest ReactJS and Ionic Framework on the frontend, provides a responsive and intuitive UI to track expenses per person for large groups, allowing for multiple different expense split options.
- Supports the frontend with a Python/Flask backend, using SQLite to store and calculate transactions and owed amounts for each group.
Rikka-Bot -
Python Chatbot and moderation bot currently employed by over 135,000 Discord users worldwide.
Python Chatbot and moderation bot currently employed by over 135,000 Discord users worldwide.
- Designed, programmed, and currently hosts the project, and leads a team of 4 members on the development team.
- Integrated the Discord API, WolframAlpha API, Gizoogle.net API, Google Translate API, and CleverBot.io API to process and create intelligent responses based on user need, including language translation, moderation, and miscellaneous fun commands.
Calbot (HackFSU 2019 First Place Winner) -
Nutrition tracker that keeps track of intake through the latest in Computer Vision and artificial intelligence.
Nutrition tracker that keeps track of intake through the latest in Computer Vision and artificial intelligence.
- Designed and led a team of 3 developers in creating an advanced, cross-platform chatbot assistant that simplifies the nutrition tracking experience by offering a seamless experience using the most popular conversational clients.
- Employed the Google Cloud Computer Vision API to identify food in an image and used the WolframAlpha knowledgebase API to query for nnutrition information and logs and tracks them in an SQL database.
Dirac_AI -
Advanced Artificial Intelligence chatbot with a web and backend interface.
Advanced Artificial Intelligence chatbot with a web and backend interface.
- Designed, implemented, and hosts the project, and leads a team of 4 members on the development team.
- Created a recursive neural network self-learning system that improves based on user input.
- Designed an adaptable, modular bot able to be implemented into many different applications across the stack.