Senior Software Engineer - The New York Times, Wirecutter

Software Engineer: 10/20 - 01/22
Senior Software Engineer: 01/22 - Present

As an engineer on the Reader Growth team I focus on features related to growing our audience including SEO optimizations, improving Core Web Vitals, off-platform presence (newsletters and Apple News), and integrating with services that NYT teams provide. Some projects that I acted as tech lead on include:

  • • A service that publishes all Wirecutter content to The New York Times publishing pipeline
  • • The data and api migration of newsletter subscription services
  • • A feature called Live Blog Posts that has resulted in Wirecutter articles getting top prioritization in Google News feeds during major deal events
  • • A brand new interactive article type called Product Finder
  • • Building a custom pipeline that transforms and publishes Wirecutter content to Apple News
• Javascript, React, Node, GraphQL, NextJS, Python, PHP, Wordpress, AWS, GCP, CircleCI, Docker

Full Stack Developer - Gordon Food Service

02/19 - 10/20

Develop and maintain a suite of customer-facing applications known as Gordon Now that automate customer support duties, provide information and ordering options, and enhance the customer experience while working in an Agile setting. These applications are in the form of a mobile app (iOS & Android), a Google Voice Assistant, and a chatbot that is embedded and tailored to various internal and customer-facing sites. I also helped design and build out the CI/CD processes that enforce code quality and automate deployments.

Web Developer (as a contractor) - Gordon Food Service

06/18 - 02/19

Collaborated with many teams on a variety of projects in the marketing technology department. Notable projects include building multiple ETL processes that gather customer data from siloed sources which are then unified in Salesforce to power targeted digital marketing efforts, and scaling an internal ad server to support internationalized ads for Canadian customers.

• Javascript, React, React Native, Redux, Redux-Saga, Expo, Angular, Python, Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, PHP, Drupal 8, Wordpress, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Jenkins, MySQL

Web Developer - One Stop Inc.

11/16 - 06/18

Maintained and added features to a legacy B2B e-commerce site that handled ~80% of all sales. Lead the development of a complete redesign of the UI, and rearchitected the front end and middleware applications away from a deprecated framework and onto a modern tech stack. Also, set up load balancing and replication for the existing database, and ported the entire development environment from virtual machines to Docker containers.

• Javascript, Typescript, React, MobX, Vue, Node, Express, jQuery, PHP, Python Django, Postgres, MongoDB, Vagrant, Docker

Education

08/09 - 05/13

Central Michigan University - Mount Pleasant, MI

Bachelor of Applied Arts in 2-D Design; Philosophy Minor