Resume

Smile Brands Inc12/2024 – 12/2025

Driving a comprehensive internal modernization program, upgrading legacy applications and infrastructure to align with cloud-native architectures, microservices, and containerized deployments.

• Introducing serverless solutions (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge) and event-driven workflows to replace monolithic services.
• Modernizing the DevOps toolchain, integrating CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline to automate deployments, testing, and rollbacks.
• Enhancing system monitoring and alerting with CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana to improve MTTR and reduce downtime.
• Resolving complex data integrity issues affecting user applications by diagnosing root causes in distributed systems, stabilizing data pipelines, and ensuring database synchronization consistency.
• Investigating undocumented infrastructure to map API behavior, hidden dependencies, and integration points that impact critical user workflows.
• Supporting after-hours operations to minimize downtime and risk during high-impact incidents.
• Leading incident response and root cause analysis, ensuring lessons learned translate into preventive automation and system hardening.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)JavaScriptFull-Stack DevelopmentJavaJenkinsDistributed SystemsDockerAPI DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentSoftwarePythonWeb Services APIBack-End Web DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)Node.jsTypeScript

Ascendion04/2023 – 08/2024

Advancing on a state-of-the-art internal metric ticketing research tool for management to visualize important data sets within different departments of Azure Web Services.

• Conducted a thorough audit of the entire system operations throughout the development cycle, including release management, coding practices, code reviewing, and gatekeeping. Identified missing or inadequate facilities that pinpointed inefficiencies for management.
• Implemented robust CI/CD pipelines and established code policies for the front-end, back-end, and data-syncing processes (database). This initiative aimed to automate and analyze code smells, vulnerabilities, and risk points within release and deployment cycles.
• Enhanced the testing coverage for the existing front-end, which was previously lacking comprehensive testing. Developed a comprehensive testing suite using Jasmine, significantly increasing test coverage from 30% to 90%
• Collaborated with management in the hiring process, actively participating in interviews and assisting in the selection of potential new team members.

HTML5SCSSAngular 15React.jsJavaScriptRXJSCypressJasmineAzure DevOps

Cognizant03/2021 – 11/2023

Engineered custom solutions for diverse range of assignments and technologies by developing onto existing platforms; contributed towards 6+ projects on-time with varying stakeholder requirements and Agile methodologies, meeting 100% of deliverables.

• Engineered Angular & React solutions for large scale client projects within Agile methodology, providing technical leadership and collaborating with distributed development teams across different time zones. Clients included:
  • Banking: M&T Bank, PNC, Wells Fargo.
  • Healthcare: Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, Anthem.
  • Insurance: Pacific Specialty Insurance.
• Contributed to documentation, testing, and styling, outside of primary objectives and my individual contributor requirements.
• Streamlined technical documentation process by developing a standardized format and creating 50+ technical documents; reduced documentation time by 30% and improved team efficiency.

HTML5SCSSReact.jsGraphQLAngular 5-13ES5ES6RXJSbackbone.jsSwaggerNPMGitVSCodeCypressJenkins.NET

Vaco LLC11/2020 – 03/2021

Aided in the development and contribution of a new corporate CRM tool for Google Pay corporate clients using Angular; reduced customer support issues by 25% and increased sales by 17%.

• Worked with a small team as individual contributor to output features from high priority tickets within individual stakeholders.
• Developed organization documents within this product to help smooth out onboarding. Feedback for smoother ticket creation with necessary information for less back and forth, etc.

HTML5SCSSAngular 7ES6TypeScriptJasminePrismic

IPG - Media Brands12/2018 – 05/2020

Architected and developed and architected Out of Home project within Unity, a corporate platform, for advertisers to purchase and place outdoor and transit ads; led team of 5 front-end to finish custom solution within 8 months.

• Developed from scratch written in JavaScript a Google Maps API driven search tool for ad searching, negotiating, and purchasing.
• Coached an offshore team to deliver high quality work, set strategy and delegate during late hours to fulfill sprint objectives.
• Had highest scrum velocity out of corporate software ladder, averaging above 35% per sprint.

HTML5SCSSAngular 5 SPAES5ES6Swagger APINPMGitVSCodeCypressJenkinsGoogle Maps API

Phenomenex05/2017 – 12/2018

Developed next-generation software for Phenomenex's internal systems and external websites using the latest FED technologies; built fast and reactive models for modern and older viewports, resulting in a 50% reduction in page load time.

• Led the front-end team to solve critical tasks for modern and effective development within different departments; collaborated with cross-functional teams to reduce the number of bugs by 80%. Improve workflows of existing data entry systems by 90%.
• Implemented DevOps protocol for continuous deployment and FED workflow architecture for fast and intuitive modeling; streamlined the development process and reduced the time-to-market by 100%.
• Built SCSS BEM aesthetic skeletons for encapsulating data structures; promoted the use of best practices, resulting in a 40% reduction in CSS code duplication.

HTML5SCSSAngular 2-5ES6ExpressNode.jsSwagger APIYAMLNPMGitPhotoshopVSTSVS