Summary

Full-stack developer looking for high quality products to develop and interesting problems to solve. 

Experience
8/'19 to 7/'20
Site Reliability Engineer
Amount · 
Chicago, IL

  • Migrating existing cloud infrastructure and networking to accommodate tech department splitting off into separate company
  • Writing libraries and scripts to add more automation to routine tasks (e.g. a Python wrapper for the Hashicorp Vault API)
  • Writing and updating terraform modules to maintain reusability and backwards compatibility
  • Assisting developers with deployment and infrastructure issues


10/'18 to 8/'19
Backend Engineer
DivvyDOSE · 
Chicago, IL

  • Added major features and third-party integrations to Flask pharmacy application, including automated credit card processing and an automated insurance refill process
  • Updated existing MVP to enhance performance of complex SQL queries as customers increase and scalability became a higher priority
  • Improved unit test coverage and increased speed of test runs
  • Created and advocated for proposal to introduce local automated feature testing to improve confidence in deploys

5/'16 to 10/'18
Software Engineer
Leapfrog Online · 
Evanston, IL

  • Developed and maintained company's primary platform and a real-time lead monitoring tool (both Rails-based)
  • Built and iterated on Python and/or Django-based microservices to integrate with main platform
  • Spearheaded effort to monitor application crashes more effectively with Sentry
  • Built integrations with Facebook ads and several Google-owned advertising services
  • Worked one-on-one with manager on strategy to enhance fair hiring practices
  • Led effort to redesign and improve onboarding process for new engineers

Skills
Backend Python, Ruby, Django, Rails, Redis, Postgres, Git/Github, SQLAlchemy, Sinatra, Flask
Frontend React/Redux, JavaScript, Angular
Testing Rspec, Unittest / Mock, Capybara, Selenium, Jasmine, Sinon, Chai, Pytest
Infrastructure/Tooling Jenkins, AWS, Consul, Docker, Terraform, Vault, Cloudflare, Datadog, Sentry
Education
2011
Loyola University Chicago
MA Women's Studies and Gender Studies
2009
Northwestern University
BA English Literature
Volunteering
1/'17 to 2/'17
Chicago Public Library · Co-instructor of 4-week Intro to Python course
3/'16 to 6/'16
Girl Develop It · Teaching Assistant