Enterprise Web Development

Worked in a professional capacity to develop and maintain multiple enterprise web applications. The full-stack role involved all steps of development, including:

• Cross-team UI/UX design feedback
• Headless content management design and modeling
• Monorepo configuration with automated Serverless lambda deployments
• Trunk-based application and library development with React, Typescript and SCSS modules.
• Bootstrap design system
• GitHub actions CI/CD automation workflows (build, test, lint, deploy) with quality standards such as Husky and Commitlint
• Cross-team Agile processes, such as Kanban
• GoLang and Node.js AWS Lambda Serverless functions

Black Friday

Black Friday was a game dreamt up during an introductory computer game architecture and design class at Cornell. The team, self-dubbed Arrogant Bandit, consisted of 6 members.

My role in the project was team lead. Responsibilities included facilitating communication, meetings, and ideas. Most of the work that I did revolved around implementing A* pathfinding for the game's NPCs, and honing my time-management skills to keep the team on track. The game was originally created for Windows using the Microsoft XNA Framework (C#) and Farseer physics. It won the 'Audience Favorite' award at the Cornell yearly game showcase.

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Project Apollo

Project Apollo was created in the successive game design class at Cornell. The team also consisted of 6 members under the name 'Salty Enchilada'.

I was the lead developer on this project, responsible for much of the technical implementation. I worked mainly with the designer to create an intuitive and smooth UI/UX experience via menu navigation, progression, difficulty, and level design. I was also responsible for delegating assignments to the other 3 developers, checking progress, and overall utilizing time-management skills to keep us on track. The game was created using Cocos2D-X and is solely available for iOS devices. Apollo won the 'Most Polished Game' award at the Cornell yearly game showcase.

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Cloud Microservices

Migrating a .NET 4.0 web-service hosted on static physical and virtual servers, to a cloud microservices environment. I worked from the ground up to research and investigate various cloud providers, CI/CD processes, and Docker / VCS integrations. I created financial projections and capabilities comparisons of each topic, as well as estimates for projected impact and time savings. Afterwards, I was responsible for creating a base framework in Node.js using Gitlab CI/CD, Docker, and AWS to transform our monolithic endpoints into cloud-aware, globally load-balanced, auto-scaling microservices.

CI/CD Pipelines

CI/CD, DevOps, and Automation are some of my hobbies when working in a professional setting. Specifically, automating build, test, and deploy pipelines for different kinds of applications. I've learned that even a small change can lead to large time savings in the long run. I created a pipeline for build/test/deploy of cloud microservices, and a build, test, notify pipeline for a .NET application. The microservices solution, once implemented, saved ~20 minutes per deploy to the AWS cloud, creating a simple button click for deployments. This created a ~ %24,000 efficiency increase for engineers doing deployments for individual microservices, or full application deploys. The build, test, notify pipeline create a ~ %6,000 time savings for the quality assurance process. Both cases ensured consistent results and minimized the capacity for user error.