Yum! Brands

Designed, developed, and deployed the Loyalty and Promotion services for YUM's eCommerce Platform, driving a 56% increase in registered customer orders and playing a pivotal role in achieving $20 billion in annual digital sales

Lead Back-End Software Engineer

Developed the Customer and Authentication services for YUM's eCommerce Platform, enabling seamless digital ordering for over 100 million customers across more than 45,000 restaurants worldwide.

Senior Back-End Software Engineer

YouTube

- Co-organizer of DFW's largest software developer meetup (Dallas Software Developers)
- Producer and host of the Junior Jobs Podcast
- Conference and bootcamp guest speaker

Community Organizer & Content Creator

Pariveda Solutions

Led the end-to-end delivery of a $10 million cloud migration effort, overseeing 3 teams across engineering, QA, and DevOps (total of 12 contributors). Delivered the initiative under budget and on-time, while achieving near-zero customer impact (99.99% uptime)

Software Engineering Manager

- Setup a new cloud CI/CD pipeline for an on-prem VR experience, reducing install times by over 90% through using TravisCI and custom scripts
- Developed a cloud-based real-time leaderboard API able to consume 100+ requests per second by following data lake best-practices
- Trained and led a team of 12+ developers on Swift and increased team velocity by 15% by enabling the refactor from a legacy Xamarin.iOS app to a new native iOS app

Associate Full-Stack Mobile Developer

- Developed a mobile app for a national health services company, cutting call-center response times by 99% by automating doctor recommendations and cost estimates 
- Created intellectual capital that reduced the time to create a new mobile app by 75% through a re-useable, internal mobile framework that followed best practices

Full-Stack Mobile Developer

mCubed Labs

- Increased team velocity by 15% and reduced defect rate by 20% through introducing test-driven development, MVVM, and the active record pattern
- Built 9 separate mobile applications across 3 industries by using Objective-C and Java

Mobile Developer

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

- Saved nearly $3,000 monthly in developer time-savings by researching and documenting comprehensive requirements
- Increased employee productivity by 6% by implementing agile best-practices

Business Analyst

I am a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience supporting small startups to Fortune 100 companies, currently building the new eCommerce platform for the world's largest restaurant company (Node.js, React Native, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, GraphQL)

I am also an independent programming teacher and career coach for those looking for a new job in tech. My opinions are my own

Erik Andersen

This Dot

- Built and mentored a cross‑functional team of engineers and AI specialists to develop internal tools and client deliverables, accelerating project delivery timelines by standardizing best practices and frameworks.
- Directed the efforts of engineering to build 6 Applications for Docusign IAM, helping businesses leverage Docusign integrations and automation in a way that supports their workflows.
- Spearheaded an initiative and strategy to create a community for C Suite leaders to share value and ideas with each other at exclusive, only lunches that led to triple-digit growth of members and contributors.
- Leading an initiative to acquire new clients, expanding our current client base by 25%
- Spearheaded partnerships with leading tech conferences, enabling the company to showcase its expertise and attract new high-profile clients.

Director of Technology

Dallas Software Developers Group

Providing Resources and Assistance to developers in the local Dallas community. Leading Workshops and lessons to help those that need it most.

Technical Leader, Organizer, and Admin

JavaMug Dallas

Treasurer

Collin College - Software Development

Web Advisory Board Member

AutoZone

- Delivered an improvement to the existing Deals sales funnel resulting in a 44% increase in customers who explored available deals and an overall 43% increase in deals added to their cart.
- Developed a new streamlined sign-in flow launched in Q1 of 2024, contributing to a 214% increase in linked accounts to loyalty or legacy accounts, 231,022 vs 73,440 the previous year.
- Increased Testing Code Coverage by 50% by adding integration tests throughout the code base to create higher-quality code less prone to bugs and errors.
- Increasing the website's accessibility by working on Accessible features and tasks in an initiative to improve the compliance and readability of the site with screen readers by 60% in Q3 of 2023 - Q1 of 2024.
- Modernized the shopping funnel to increase customer retention and trust in the checkout flow.
- Migrated our codebase from React-Redux to React Query while maintaining code quality standards.

Senior Software Engineer

Frontdoor, Inc.

- Leading an initiative to add a testing framework and standards across multiple repos to help developers test code that will end up in production.
- Utilizing Golang and Kafka, created a service that would automatically generate accounts for new contracts without requiring users to go through a lengthy sign up process.
- Interviewed, created documentation and assisted with the onboarding of multiple developers to help onboard them quickly.
- Working on an initiative to Rapidly optimize several slower performing pages on our website to lead to a better customer experience.
- Added Tealium tracking to several pages that allow the company to better understand what products and pages relate to customers and which products are being abandoned.

Software Engineer

Google

- Maintain the content on several different sites with a focus on converting viewers to attendees.
- Worked directly with the Android Dev team to release educational tech content and led several hands on workshops with Android Developers across North America
- Cross-collaborated with teams across the Globe on several initiatives such as the Global Developer Call, DevFest North America, North America Connect Summit and more, Events where we bring Developers together to learn and engage with new technical content.
- Worked with the Europe Team to help engage many of their inactive communities resulting in a very well received session of actionable steps to bring their tech communities back to life during the pandemic.
- Delivered a talk for actionable ways we can deliver technical content in a way that is more approachable, The talk was delivered to Googlers and over 300 Global community leaders, which was the highest rated talk of the entire event.

DevEcosystems | DevRel for Google Technologies

Shelby County Schools

Assisting Shelby County Schools as a Board member for STEM activities.

STEM Board Member For Shelby County Schools

- Led a RTB initiative and was the sole member on the team for several months using a Java/Angular tech stack.
- We rewrote the entire codebase in React/Go so I adapted to the shift in technologies, learned them and became a valued member on the team, solving problems and creating working solutions for the needs of the business.
- Our team created a new sales funnel for the company that led to a 30% increase in customer conversion rates and a 7% increase in customers being able to reach customer care instead of abandoning carts.
- Worked with a team of Engineers to completely recreate our entire site from scratch.
- Worked on Microservices and creating Endpoints for new services.

LaunchCode

-Guiding students, providing advice and explaining teaching material.
-Conducting office hours to ensure students have the ability to receive extra attention.
-Going above and beyond to help bring the strongest graduation rate for the Incredible students involved in the program.
-Shaping the next group of developers entering the workforce.

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Experienced problem solver and leader with a proven track record of success in software development, leveraging Java, Spring framework, or Golang to build scalable and secure solutions that empower businesses and instill trust in users through intuitive React.js frontends. Currently spearheading the Dallas Software Developers Group, fostering a vibrant local tech ecosystem through workshops, cohorts, and meetups.

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