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Senior Software Engineer at Currency

Full Stack Engineer

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- Led ~15 technical candidate interviews; hired and trained 2 team members.
- Served as scrum leader and insured my team stayed focused and on track during our sprints.
- Built relationships with sensor companies, and integrated their hardware into our data pipeline using
Docker, Node.js, and AWS.

Data Acquisition Team Lead

- Created a modular network of microservices using docker-compose to manage data-collection from various types of sensors in 17 Class A office buildings scattered across the northeast US.
- Provisioned servers by using Ansible to deploy a suite of custom systemd services that kicked off Docker and bash processes.
- Built a frontend dashboard with react-redux for configuring remote data-collection computers.
- Developed a NodeJS process to write BACnet commands to Building Management Systems to change fan speeds.

Full Stack Developer

Fullstack Academy

- Solo taught a 48 hour course on the fundamentals of programming in JavaScript.
- Subjects included variables, functions, control flow, iteration, data structures, scope and closures, prototypes and constructors, callbacks, time complexity, pass-by-reference vs pass-by-value, recursion, and API calls. 
- Lectured and provided one-on-one instruction, created problem sets and practice tests, filmed solution videos, and managed course materials on Fullstack's online learning platform.

Instructor

Columbia University in the City of New York

•	Discovered previously unrecognized coupling between ocean circulation and Near East climate, and wrote the findings into my masters thesis. 
•	Attended international conferences. 
•	Trained other researchers in the use of a million dollar mass spectrometer and scanning electron microscope.

Graduate Research Assistant in Geochemistry

•	Lectured to groups of 20+ students on topics such as Thermodynamics and isotopic decay
•	Led review sessions, and assisted in the creation and grading of exams

Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Geosciences

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

•	Maintained and performed inventory for a high profile geochemistry laboratory
•	Performed isotopic analyses on lava flows and Dead Sea sediments
•	Developed new lab protocols

Lab Manager

Isotope geochemist turned software engineer and NYC --> LA transplant. I like playing outside and building friendly, empowering software.

Skills / Tools
Frontend: JavaScript, React, Redux, AngularJS, jQuery, HTML, Webpack, PostCSS
Backend: NodeJS, Go, Python (beginner), REST, gRPC, ExpressJS, JWT auth, web sockets, GraphQL, microservice architecture
Databases: MongoDB + Mongoose, Postgres + Sequelize, SQL
Ops: Docker, Ansible, AWS, VirtualBox, Vagrant, Packer, bash scripting, Linux networking, systemd
Testing: Mocha, Chai, Jasmine, Sinon, Nock, Jest, React Testing Library, gotest, pytest
Mobile: Cordova + Ionic, React Native
General: Unix terminal, Git, GitHub, BitBucket, Jira, Agile

I like this joke:
"There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."

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