Experience

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  Smith college

  Feb 2013 - May 2014

  Studio assistant

  Maintained the printmaking studio by restocking supplies, taking regular inventory, as well as assisting the professors with any additional tasks such as greeting guest artists.

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  Through my window

  Feb 2014 - Apr 2014

  Graphic designer

  Worked as the graphic designer on a project developing resources for teaching engineering to 3rd-8th grade students. Developed a cohesive layout and design for a Teacher’s Guide using the Adobe Creative Suite, and incorporated feedback from the director of press and outreach. Collaborated with the team illustrator to integrate drawings into the layout.

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  Eliot school of fine & applied arts

  Sept 2014 - Jun 2015

  Teaching assistant

  The Eliot School is a community arts organization that teaches a variety of classes on-site and outsources artist-teachers to urban, full-inclusion schools without art programs. Courses Assistant-taught| Woodworking, 7th - 8th grade, Irving Middle School and Up Academy.Students attended twice weekly. They worked with hand tools to make assigned projects (e.g., gumball machine, box, car).

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  Boston arts academy

  Jan 2016 - May 2016

  Student teacher

  Implemented diagnostic strategies to evaluate students and address potentialissues with subject comprehension, motivation, or inter-student conflictsPlanned curriculum for 9th-12th grade art majors that incorporated staterequirements, problem solving opportunities, concrete objectives, and socialawarenessLed classes of 20-30 high schoolers and established a strong rapport with eachstudent

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  Self-employed

  Sept 2016 - Mar 2018

  Freelance artist + designer

  Developed original concepts and illustrations for greeting cards and art prints.Fostered relationships with local artists and art enthusiasts and promoted mywork at monthly art markets.

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  Artisan's asylum, inc.

  Jul 2017 - Oct 2017

  Lead teacher: introduction to screenprinting

  Led introductory screen printing coursesEvaluated and solved exposure unit technical issues with shop leadProvided students with troubleshooting strategies and maintained classmorale through the inevitable errors that come with a medium as unpredictableas printmaking

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  Ruby for good

  Sept 2018 - Mar 2020

  Volunteer open source developer

  Implemented new features, debugged front-end issues, and increased test coverage for various open source projects including“Terrastories” and “Voices of Consent”

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  Bloc

  Sept 2018 - May 2019

  Full-stack web development immersive student

  9 month full-stack web development immersive program

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  Rockcreek

  Jun 2019 - Jun 2024

  Delivered new data collection and analysis features fully eliminating excel from the investment team’s workflow and ultimately jumping from 10 companies managed to over 2 thousand.Pioneered a “smart” profile builder that utilizes Anthropic’s Claude LLM to generate investment details in our system from user uploaded fact sheets and pitch books.Built specialized functionality to support tailored demonstrations to prospective clients by enabling authorized users to assume the roles and entitlements of any user, enhancing customer understanding and engagement.Drove architecture and design from the frontend to the backend as lead developer on various projects.Created numerous custom UI components and approximately 50 new GraphQL endpoints for a client facing application with 10k users.Built a region evacuation pipeline to conduct disaster recovery testing of our kubernetes applications. Worked collaboratively with domain experts and cross-functional teams to gather requirements and pinpoint opportunities for impactful technical solutions. Onboarded new team members and mentored junior developers through pair programming and code reviews. Lead knowledge sharing sessions on following best practices and paired 1x1 with early career engineers on common challenges like debugging and effective testing. Show less Collaborated on the creation of a unified application suite that consolidated multiple databases, replaced a legacy API with GraphQL,and refactored our client-facing application leading to a 60% reduction in service desk tickets and overall restored trust in our products.Spearheaded the development of a new GitOps deployment pipeline and created the initial Kubernetes application manifests as part ofthe migration to AWS EKS.Optimized and improved the consistency of data visualizations across our application suite by wrapping our charting library in anormalized GraphQL endpoint.Paired with another developer on the rewriting and re-platforming of our cron jobs from windows task scheduler running on a solitarylaptop to an Apache Airflow instance hosted on our kubernetes clusters allowing for better environment separation and monitoring. Show less

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Mar 2022 - Jun 2024

  • Software Developer

    Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
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  Mitre

  Jul 2024 - now

  Senior software engineer