tl;dr
Software engineer and Ruby on Rails developer with 14 years of software development experience specialized in web development.
Experience
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN
- Staff Software Engineer Feb. 2022 — Present
- Senior Bioinformatics Portal Engineer Nov. 2021 — Feb. 2022
- Associate Software Development Engineer Sept. 2019 — Nov. 2021
- Web Developer Feb. 2019 — Sept. 2019
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- Collaborate on the St. Jude Cloud with a focused, growing team within the institution
- Migrate aging client-side dependencies, including React v15.x to v16.9+, and reimplement crucial logic
- Automate deployment by assisting in converting from AWS OpsWorks to Terraform and Packer
- Modernize project by Dockerizing application, fixing test suite, and enforcing critical testing procedures
- Implement new features for Ruby on Rails project while ensuring application health and up-to-date security
- Initiate routine code assessment via pull request and weekly review with junior and senior developers
- Propose new ideas to better the product development and user experience of the St. Jude Cloud
- Brainstorm with fellow developers to advise and converge on coding techniques and conventions
LensRentals
Cordova, TN
- Web Developer May. 2014 — Feb. 2018
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- Collaborated with a focused, distributed team while utilizing Git on a daily basis to manage source code
- Developed complex, automated meta-model systems to efficiently categorize warehouse products
- Created Go microservices to automatically ship packages intelligently, cheaply, and quickly
- Implemented ReactJS web clients to reduce user error and time spent per task for logistical processes
- Maintained Rails v2.0 apps running on Ruby v1.8.7 and migrated code up to Rails v5.0 and Ruby v2.3.5
- Tested code using various frameworks including RSpec, Cucumber, Jasmine, Chai, Enzyme, and Jest
- Containerized projects using Docker for development, continuous integration, and automated deployment
Education
University of Memphis
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B. S. Computer Science (3.9 Core, 3.3 overall GPA) Aug. 2010 — Sept. 2014
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- The University of Memphis Dean’s Scholarship
- Helen Hardin Honors Program
Major Projects
WhereFi: Global WiFi Mapping using Sinatra and Android
2014
- Collaborated as a three-person team to develop an original system to track WiFi
- Crowdsourced WiFi hotspot recognition utilizing Android WiFi and GPS capabilities
- Optimized for little redundancy and overhead while running in the background
- Utilized Sinatra, Unicorn, and Nginx to handle remote computation and web services
- Created an original application to monitor, log, and reconstruct unencrypted network traffic
- Utilized Python bindings to the Qt framework to design and implemented a graphical interface
- Optimized for speed using multiprocessing to run computationally intensive features in real-time
- Generated graphs and other visual data analysis tools to display aggregated network information
Skills
Frontend
React / Javascript / Typescript
Backend
Ruby / Rails / Javascript / Typescript / Go / NodeJS
Databases
PostgreSQL / MySQL
Cloud
AWS / Azure / Terraform / Kubernetes / Helm
Misc
Git / Vim / Lua / Rust / LaTeX