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Austin, TX Senior Software Engineer, January 2020 — Present Front-End Software Engineer, September 2018 — January 2020
- Consistently deliver intricate and accessible front-end focused features ahead of schedule with thorough tests.
- Collaborate with Product team on user research, planning, scoping, prototyping, and design of upcoming features.
- Advocate for user privacy by creating processes to consider security from product planning through code review.
- Write detailed documentation on technical architecture and development or project management best practices.
- Designed technical interview question and evaluation system for internship hiring process.
Software Engineer, San Francisco, CA July 2015 — August 2018
- Designed, built, and maintained full-stack features with complex visual requirements using Ember.js, Ruby, and Java.
- Coordinated team of three engineers and a product manager for four-month project; led reprioritization efforts when requirements changed and shipped functional feature within reduced timeline.
- Rolled out strict Content Security Policy to existing app with over 100,000 daily users without a single disruption.
- Implemented changes in distributed test runner to run only files related to changes; up to 94% reduction in resources.
- Created automated reports to track and identify test flakes, which were adopted and extended by four other teams.
- Researched and thoroughly documented institutional knowledge and processes, for team and for shared codebases.
- Designed quarterly surveys to track developer feedback for infrastructure team roadmap and key results tracking.
- Organized and facilitated community-building events including external technical talk events, internal panels on career levels, roundtable discussions for women in engineering, and accomplishment-tracking workshops.
- Regularly participated in hiring process; conducted over 100 technical interviews of industry candidates.
Houston, TX Research Assistant, Computer Science Department, January—June 2015
- Redesigned CodeSkulptor programming tool for student usability in collaboration with a UX researcher.
- Contributed major architectural improvements to Skulpt, an open-source JavaScript implementation of Python; rearchitected underlying class type system to be more extensible, unblocking long-standing feature requests.
- Introduced profiling and timing tools and decreased test run time by 6%.
Austin, TX Software Engineering Intern, June—August 2014
- Designed and built a single-page app with Backbone.js to dynamically render documentation about internal NPM packages; developed user experience for cross-functional team members with different goals.
- Wrote exemplar documentation to demonstrate best practices and interactive code examples.
November 2016 — December 2019
- Built and maintained open-source web app (Ember.js and Node/Express, automated Heroku deploy pipeline).
- Served 2,600 monthly active users, with more than 300,000 unique users over lifetime.
- Recommended resource in calls to action by Indivisible Guide, GitHub, Southern Poverty Law Center.
- Individual Contributors Managing Interns: Name a More Iconic Duo, I’ll Wait — Lead Dev Meetup Austin, July 2019
- Don’t Just Put a On It—Use the Power of the Browser! — EmberCamp 2019
- Deep Dive on Ember Events — EmberConf 2018, EmberFest 2017
Rice University Houston, TX B.A. with Honors in Computer Science