Software Engineer
Better.com
Feb 2020 - Present
• 3 years 8 monthsMarketplace
- Lead on redesign of Rates page, making rate selection simpler and clearer for borrowers, leading to 30% increase in app to lock. Primarily frontend work in React/TypeScript.
- Part of small, fast-paced team tasked to introduce a new loan product: HELOC
- Worked on migration of pricing and eligibility from monolithic codebase to new service written in Go and utilizing AWS Lamba
Partnerships
- Team lead on Sustain pod, working with long-lasting partners, most notable Ally Bank
- Automated the discounts process for existing Ally customers, leveraging our mortgage engine and an API provided by Ally
- Migrated Ally from a white label partnership to a broker-lender model, opening up 13+ states and increasing volume by 14%
- Expedited preapproval process for Credit Karma customers using data provided by CK
Full Stack Engineer
Genius
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
• 7 months- Developed user-friendly, engaging ad products, including the addition of a collapsable, large-format, multimedia unit to our most trafficked page, using Google Ad Manager for testing and tracking
- Built and templatized interactive trivia ad unit using Celtra, JavaScript & CSS
- Responded to high urgency alerts, managed deploys, ran database maintenance, triaged bugs, and fulfilled company-wide tech requests as part of rotating team lead/on call responsibility
Software Engineer
iCapital Network, Inc.
Apr 2017 - Apr 2019
• 2 years 1 month- Member of small team tasked to migrate Angular front-end, built within platform’s monolithic Rails codebase, to a separate React-based app.
- Lead developer on brand new Investor Profile experience, a cornerstone feature of the core application, built using React, Redux, Webpack, Yarn, and Jest.
- Complete ownership of Investor Profile, front-end and back, working to increase test coverage and improve key aspects, such as completeness analysis.
- Full stack development using Ruby, Rails, React, Angular, and PostgreSQL on a platform managing $40B of assets across 300+ funds for over 70,000 clients.
Web Developer
Harvard Business Publishing
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
• 1 year 8 months- Authored custom RSS solution after third-party APIs were deprecated
- Led onboarding and knowledge transfer effort when versioned flagship product was scheduled for retirement and passed on to a new team abroad
- Customized hundreds of client instances using CSS, JavaScript, and Photoshop
Research Technician
Arietis Corp
Dec 2011 - Sep 2014
• 2 years 10 months- Lead Screener, H. pylori small molecule high throughput screen. Tested over 200,000 compounds at Harvard Medical School Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology (ICCB). Performed follow-up dose response, cytotoxicity, and specificity tests with 0.3% of compounds.
- Antimicrobial discovery, therapy development for recalcitrant infection, novel drug assay design and development, drug validation using MIC, IC50, MBC, and cytotoxicity, mechanism of action testing, and assisting in mouse studies.