Senior Software Engineer - Maximus Contract - Tysons, VA
(2024-08)
- Led the shift from a Node.js and TypeScript monolith to independently deployable Products, Link, AI, and Ads microservices connected through internal REST APIs, improving scalability and team autonomy.
- Architected an AWS serverless platform with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, and AWS CDK, making environments repeatable through Infrastructure as Code.
- Designed REST APIs around AI models that generated context-aware ads, images, articles, and page sections across five embed types, expanding reusable publisher experiences.
- Led a client-facing AI-powered content-to-commerce platform from concept to production across 10+ publisher sites, reaching 150K+ daily impressions at a 0.5% CTR.
- Built React and TypeScript embeds hosted on S3 and CloudFront, letting publishers add dynamic commerce content without custom page rewrites and cutting integration effort.
- Used SQS to decouple AI-generation and delivery workflows, protecting API responsiveness and stabilizing high-volume publishing jobs.
- Automated Jest and Playwright checks, packaging, promotion, and rollback in GitHub Actions, cutting average deployment time by 35%.
- Added CloudWatch dashboards, Sentry alerts, and structured Node.js logs, helping engineers isolate failures quickly and limit disruption across publisher sites.
- Tuned Lambda execution, DynamoDB access patterns, S3 usage, and CloudFront delivery, lowering monthly AWS spend by 18% without compromising responsiveness.
- Applied AWS IAM, least-privilege access, managed secrets, input validation, and dependency scanning, reducing late-stage security findings and release delays.
- Mentored engineers through microservice boundaries, AWS CDK reviews, and incident follow-up while targeted automation saved about eight hours per sprint.
Staff Software Engineer - Spot Insurance Contract - Austin, TX
(2023-07 - 2024-08)
- Led development of responsive React 18 dashboards for insurance workflows, giving users clearer access to operational and customer data across desktop and mobile layouts.
- Modernized legacy Create React App applications by migrating to Vite and TypeScript, improving build speed, maintainability, and developer feedback cycles.
- Improved Core Web Vitals by 60% on the primary landing page through code splitting, React Suspense, and lazy loading, creating a faster customer entry experience.
- Integrated REST APIs with TanStack Query, standardizing caching, request state, and error handling for dependable dashboard data.
- Built reusable React 18 components and responsive HTML5/CSS3 layouts, reducing duplication and keeping insurance workflows visually consistent.
- Used feature flags and Sentry to stage front-end releases and detect client-side failures, reducing risk to active insurance users.
- Expanded Jest, React Testing Library, and Playwright coverage, reducing escaped defects in critical insurance workflows by 26%.
- Drove TypeScript, React, accessibility, and performance standards across product, design, and backend teams, reducing UI rework and delivery friction.
- Resolved Vite build and GitHub Actions failures, reducing release rework and improving front-end delivery reliability.
Senior Developer - Shopify Contract - Remote | USA
(2022-01 - 2023-07)
- Shipped a cross-platform commerce platform with React Native and Next.js, using React Native Web and Solito to reduce duplicate work and accelerate web/mobile feature parity.
- Built mobile interactions with Reanimated and responsive Next.js experiences, delivering consistent customer journeys while preserving platform-specific behavior.
- Integrated Apollo GraphQL and Auth0 for authenticated customer data flows, providing consistent sessions and dependable commerce data access across web and mobile.
- Created shared components and documented them in Storybook, shortening interface review cycles and reducing rework between engineering and product partners.
- Implemented Detox and Playwright coverage in GitHub Actions, reducing cross-platform release risk and improving confidence in customer-critical journeys.
Staff Software Engineer - Workrise Contract - Austin, TX
(2020-10 - 2021-12)
- Guided React Native, Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL delivery for worker onboarding and marketplace workflows, helping users move through core tasks with less friction.
- Separated Node.js capabilities behind clear GraphQL contracts, enabling faster product changes without coordinating the entire marketplace as one release.
- Improved PostgreSQL access patterns after reviewing slow marketplace workflows, reducing response delays in high-use worker and staffing experiences.
- Automated Docker builds, Jest checks, and deployments with GitHub Actions and Pulumi, reducing release-cycle time by 34% and giving distributed teams a consistent process.
- Led TypeScript reviews, Sentry-based incident follow-up, and production-readiness discussions, reducing repeat issues and improving marketplace reliability after launch.
Software Engineer | Senior Software Engineer - RetailMeNot, Inc. - Austin, TX
(2013-01 - 2020-10)
- Progressed through five engineering levels while building React, Node.js, SQL, and AWS products that supported offer discovery and advertiser campaigns, resulting in faster offer discovery for users.
- Created reusable React patterns and shared build conventions, helping product teams deliver consumer experiences faster with fewer release differences.
- Delivered Node.js REST integrations and PostgreSQL services for high-traffic offer and merchant experiences, improving the reliability of data moving into production.
- Improved release quality with Jest, Docker, CI/CD automation, Sentry monitoring, and incremental safeguards, reducing deployment-related defects by 27% across web and mobile products.
- Mentored engineers, reviewed JavaScript and TypeScript changes, and led production follow-up, scaling consistent engineering quality across product teams.
