History with Docker

Consulting as a software engineer. Mentoring programmers at all levels of experience. Volunteer time each week toward building systems to assist with coordinating community outreach. Also volunteer on open source projects.

• While helping a team with their React based frontend (without any experience with React) created a custom calendar component that fit their needs after recognizing that the off-the-shelf open source options wouldn’t work for them. Was able to deliver this component ahead of schedule with test coverage and with an array of date utilities that came to be adopted by the team throughout the rest of the code base.

• Led the development of a Natural Language Processing service to improve the usability of a client’s provider search feature

• An organization’s management was considering rewriting a legacy Rails application they’d inherited. I suggested that they might consider keeping the legacy app while adapting it to their micro service architecture. Within a few weeks the app was upgraded and Dockerized with the beginnings of test coverage (before this there were no tests). It also now had JSON API, and a new Svelte-based UI (according to organizational standards) with no prior Svelte experience.

• With no Julia programming experience was able to help a high functioning team improve the quality of their Julia code base and testing which identified a critical production bug

• Contributed Ruby, Java and Clojure bindings to a new open source programming language

• Rescued the source code of a running Rails application. The developer had unfortunately disappeared. Was able to collect source code from AWS ElasticBeanstalk deployments (while having to fill in a number of missing pieces). Got it into a Github repository, upgraded from Rails & Ruby, and resolved a number of bugs and issues on it’s Vue.js frontend (having never used Vue.js before this).

Hired on full-time after a six-month contract (from 3/2019—9/2019). Served as a lead engineer on a team of nine.

• Was awarded multiple “I Care” awards by teammates & customers

• Enjoyed mentoring junior developers

• Led the design, development and integration (across various IT teams) of a system that has become the flagship product of the team used by over 30 clinics throughout the hospital system and a waiting list of many more; saving the organization millions of dollars

• Completed a project within a few months that had been stalled for over 3 years

• Helped organization quickly pivot to remote teams by leading the development of a clean & user-friendly time-tracking application during the pandemic from a very raw prototype that had been previously developed

• Led an experimental project to create a compiler to automate the conversion of legacy applications

• With little mobile programming experience built a well received iPad kiosk app