resume.md

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gallery	Resume	/resume/	I am a passionate software engineer who enjoys creating useful tools to make life easier for end users. I advocate for good test coverage and testing practices, leverage code linters to enhance the code review process, and push for readability over performance where applicable. I am always looking to learn new things and love taking on different projects to get a feel for the various technologies that constantly emerge in our field. Below you will find my resume from newest to oldest positions along with technologies I know and memberships I am part of.

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		<h3>PayPal (Braintree)</h3>
		<h4>Member of Technical Staff II Software Engineer</h4>

		<h5>Oct 2020 - Present</h5>

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      <li>Lead team initiatives, interview potential candidates, and mentor new hires</li>
      <li>Implement new reports in Merchant Sandbox environment using Spark, Scala, and Snowflake schema datalake</li>
      <li>Design fact and dimension tables in Snowflake schema datalake</li>
      <li>Provide SME engineering advice to 2 separate verticals related to Billpay</li>
      <li>Design and implement a distributed feature validation platform to monitor downstream regressions related to Billpay (PayPal, Braintree, Venmo, and Hyperwallet systems)</li>
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		<h3>Amazon Web Services (AWS)</h3>
		<h4>Software Engineer II</h4>

		<h5>May 2016 - Oct 2020</h5>

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			<li>Support the Control Plane core services under the AWS Elastic Load Balancer team</li>
			<li>Enhance and support operationally the core scaling service for customer load balancers</li>
			<li>Help manage security patches for both OS and software</li>
			<li>Scale out services and build automation tooling for new AWS region launches</li>
			<li>Part of an on-call rotation for operationally supporting the ELB Control Plane</li>
			<li>Use Java, Ruby, Ruby on Rails to add new features to existing services and launch new services</li>
			<li>Work on extremely large scale distributed systems and micro services</li>
				<li>Interview potential candidates for ELB</li>
				<li>Official AWS Bar Raiser</li>
			<li>Mentor interns and new full-time hires on the team</li>
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		<h3>Enova International</h3>
		<h4>Senior Software Engineer</h4>

		<h5>July 2015 - April 2016</h5>

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			<li>Use Ruby on Rails, Postgres, and Riak for use in customer data modeling</li>
			<li>Implement Ruby on Rails projects for the analytics team</li>
			<li>Use Golang for performance in realtime data applications</li>
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		<h3>UnitedHealth Group</h3>
		<h4>Software Engineer</h4>

		<h5>June 2013 - June 2015</h5>

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			<li>Use Perl, Java, Javascript, HTML/CSS/SASS, Backbone/Handlebars to write Emergency Department EMR Application</li>
			<li>Research and implement new product ideas</li>
			<li>Fix security issues and harden the system</li>
			<li>Fix bugs and defects for release in service packs</li>
			<li>Work with java REST service to implement performance gains</li>
			<li>Work in an Agile team with remote team members</li>
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		<h3>Select Italy</h3>
		<h4>Web Developer</h4>

		<h5>October 2012 - April 2013</h5>

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			<li>Integrated a live hotel booking process into the existing website using php, javascript, and html/css</li>
			<li>Worked with a third party vendor's API to connect the live hotel booking workflow</li>
			<li>Find and fix bugs in the website</li>
			<li>Enhance functionality for both end users and internal users</li>
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		<h3>Puerto Rican Cultural Center of Chicago</h3>
		<h4>Volunteer Software Developer</h4>

		<h5>August 2012 - April 2016</h5>

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			<li>Creating a website to handle converting and preserving historical documents in a digital format</li>
			<li>Ability to search for documents based on various categorized tags</li>
			<li>Ability to restrict which documents can be viewed based on permissions and roles</li>
			<li>Ability to scan in documents remotely to the web server</li>
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		<h3>Technologies and Skills</h3>

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			<li>Ruby on Rails</li>
			<li>RSpec</li>
				<li>Java</li>
				<li>AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, DDB, Kinesis, Route53, SQS/SNS, ElasticBeanstalk)</li>
      <li>Docker</li>
      <li>Kubernetes</li>
			<li>Postgres</li>
			<li>HTML/CSS/SASS</li>
			<li>Javascript (React, Vue)</li>
			<li>Bootstrap</li>
			<li>Node/Express/npm</li>
			<li>Golang</li>
			<li>Python</li>
			<li>C#</li>
			<li>JQuery/JQuery UI</li>
				<li>Backbone/Handlebars</li>
			<li>Information Security/Cryptography</li>
			<li>Linux</li>
			<li>Git</li>
			<li>Agile/Scrum</li>
			<li>JSON/XML</li>
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		<h3>Memberships</h3>

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			<li>Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)</li>
			<li>Chicago Java Users Group</li>
			<li>ChicagoRuby</li>
			<li>Chicago Security Group</li>
			<li>Chicago City Data Group</li>
			<li>Chicago Javascript Group</li>
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