Objective
As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in customer-facing features, I excel at transforming designs into accessible, intuitive, and high-impact user experiences (UX). I focus on development, architecting robust solutions, and ensuring usability and responsive functionality across devices to address real customer challenges. With expertise in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, I build user-friendly interfaces that boost satisfaction and engagement, while mentoring peers to elevate team performance. Eager to innovate, I collaborate with designers and developers to deliver cutting-edge, scalable solutions that surpass customer expectations through top-tier frontend development.
Experience
IntuitSenior Software Engineer
2015 – Present
- Spearheaded front-end innovation as Lead Instructor for Intuit’s Front-End Deep Dive, helping create a curriculum that accelerated onboarding for new engineers and elevated team expertise.
- Helped develop a deep dive front-end curriculum for incoming engineers.
- Architected scalable, customer-facing solutions, integrating React-based UIs with backend systems and defining RESTful APIs for tools like an AWS-powered link shortener.
- Mentored junior engineers across global teams in India and the U.S., fostering mastery of modern front-end tools (Node, Webpack, SASS) and best practices, driving a 20% uplift in team productivity.
- Pioneered an abstraction layer for the Google Search Appliance, enabling a backend-agnostic front-end with features like people search and autocomplete, enhancing user engagement.
- Championed Agile adoption, streamlining workflows and increasing project velocity by 15%, while collaborating with UX designers to deliver custom, responsive UI components.
Independent Contractor
2000 – 2015
- Developed and launched Drupal websites, including a commerce solution for a drama school that unlocked revenue streams from ticket sales and donations.
- Empowered companies by training teams to maintain and update Drupal sites, cutting costs equivalent to a part-time engineer’s salary.
TopixFront-end Engineer
2013 – 2015
- Engineered responsive front-end systems for Topix’s high-traffic Stars and Offbeat sites, driving daily revenue from $5,000 to a peak of $45,000 through seamless, user-focused design.
- Built a powerful front-end tool integrating Topix data servers with Facebook’s ad network, empowering the marketing team to optimize ad bidding and slashing monthly costs by ~$10,000.
- Crafted an intuitive front-end interface for the editorial team, featuring a multi-question quiz builder with image uploads, streamlining content creation and boosting engagement.
FigFront-end Engineer
2012 – 2013
- Co-created a mobile-first platform for holistic wellness coaching, tracking, and accountability, delivering seamless experiences across iOS and Android with a focus on user empowerment.
- Transformed a Photoshop design into a fully functional main site, building both front-end and back-end systems using Drupal to streamline development and launch.
- Engineered a sleek front-end application with the Sencha HTML5 platform, leveraging SASS and Compass to craft responsive, high-performance interfaces.
Projects
Intuit Aid AssistSoftware Engineer
- React, SASS, IntuitAppFabric
- Partnered with the Intuit's Aid Assist team to develop a component for Covid (PPP) Estimator
Intuit Open Source siteSoftware Engineer
- React, Styled Components, IntuitAppFabric
- Partnered with the Intuit's Open Source team to lead/build/mentor the front-end objectives and best practices for the open source website.
One Intuit Technology FrameworkSoftware Engineer
- React, Redux, D3, SASS, GraphQL, Apollo, Node JS
- Partnered with the Intuit's technology team helped standardize data structure and coded a reusable framework to display data trends for various Intuit Technologies and groups.
One Intuit Forum DashboardSoftware Engineer
- React, Redux, D3, SASS, GraphQL, Apollo, Node, Express
- Partnered with Intuit's Finance team and lead the front-end engineering objectives of building a single page application for Intuit's CEO staff, which included D3 graphs demonstrating financial trends and declines with realtime commentary.
'A day in the life' functional onboarding appSoftware Engineer
- React, Redux, SASS
- Partnered with the Intuit's hiring engineering team to help build a training app that allowed newly hired engineers to hit the ground running.
T4I Password PortalSoftware Engineer
- React, Redux, SASS, Node, Express
- Partnered with the Intuit's India team to help build an internal password portal which helped tackle one of the contingent workers biggest road blocks.
Intuit InsightFront-end Engineer
- Angular, React, Javascript, SASS, Webpack, Gulp
- Coded all front-end components of Intuit's intranet.
Intuit Link ShortenerFull Stack
- Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB, ClaudiaJS, Angular, HTML, CSS, Javascript
- Coded the API's for a link shortner using AWS technologies with an Angular front-end
Topix Facebook Ad Buying ToolFront-end Engineer
- AngularJS, Javascript, HTML, CSS, SASS, Compass,Foundation
- Developed a tool that interfaces with Topix data servers and Facebooks ad network which allowed our marketing team to bid and buy ads on Facebook.
Topix Quiz Editor
- AngularJS, Javascript, HTML, CSS, SASS, Compass
- Developed the front-end for an editorial team to write multi-question quizzes complete with an image uploading tool for each question.
stars.topix.com, offbeat.topix.com, politix.topix.comFront-end Engineer
- Foundation, HTML, CSS and JQuery
- Coded High visibility forward facing sites of Topix’s Stars and Offbeat, that see thousands of users every day. This company was purchased by publishers clearning house and these links are no loger active.
fig.com Full-stack Engineer
- Drupal, HTML5, CSS and JQuery, PHP
- For both projects, I was given a Photoshop file and content. Built each site Using Drupal for front and back end.