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Experience

Senior Software Engineer

PeloTech
Sep 2024-Present
  • Migrated an antiquated .NET project into an event-driven, OLAP-backed distributed system (Kafka -> Clickhouse).
  • Designed and implemented full-stack TypeScript applications with RESTful APIs, role-based access control, and real-time analytics serving 10,000+ users.
  • Built scalable third-party API integrations with robust error handling, pagination strategies, and retry mechanisms to ensure system reliability.
  • Led monorepo architecture migration and service refactoring, improving build performance by 40% and enabling cross-team code sharing.
  • Established comprehensive test automation with Playwright e2e coverage and performance optimization, reducing production incidents by 60%.

Search Engineer

Discovery Education
Mar 2021-Sep 2024
  • Architected large-scale search infrastructure serving 5M+ queries/day, orchestrating Elasticsearch cluster upgrade with zero downtime and 3x performance improvement.
  • Built JavaScript/TypeScript features for search term correction and recommendations, optimizing algorithms for sub-100ms query response times at scale.

Full Stack Developer

Pareto Intelligence
Mar 2019-Mar 2021
  • Engineered distributed data processing system handling 1M+ records/day using Kafka event streams, with React/TypeScript Ul for data reconciliation and visualization.
  • Designed and deployed cloud-native microservices on AWS with reusable TypeScript component libraries, improving development velocity across 5 engineering teams.
  • Lead a company-wide initiative to teach Python to all teams, creating tailored workflows to aid them in their daily tasks.

Education

Loyola University of Chicago

MS: Mathematics

Jan 2017-Dec 2018

Focus in Number / Group Theory

Loyola University of Chicago

BS: Math & Econ

Aug 2014 May 2018

Honors/Cum Laude