Nadia Magallon

Experience

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  Lisa Guernsey

  Jun 2011 - Aug 2014

  Research Assistant/Publicity Assistant

  Publicity Assistant (Summer 2012, Summer 2014)-Organized interviews. Several articles were written as a result-Updated and maintained website. Used HTML to conserve uniform formatting-Contacted reporters. Composed letters/emailsResearch Assistant (June 2011 – August 2011)-Compiled data. Formatted in an easy to follow, section by section document-Proposed future areas of research. Resulted in new topics of writing

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  Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

  Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

  Intern

  -Created story pitches. Sent them out to ~70 reporters and radio shows. -Manned Green Festival booth. Increased signatures for position platform

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  MIT Sloan School of Management

  Nov 2014 - Jan 2015

  Research Assistant

  -Merged multiple data sets with MS Access and Excel-Gathered information about thousands of companies and CEOs using Factiva

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  Beansprock

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2015

  Intern

  -Increased company awareness to over 100 people through social media platform (Twitter, Facebook).-Gathered information about ~30 universities, over 50 journalists, and contacted them about the start-up

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  MIT Media Lab

  Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  Research Assistant

  -Created web application of concatenated custom video snippets to showcase the capabilities of speech recognition program using ffmpeg, Python, JavaScript, and Flask-Implemented a Redis task queue to ensure closed AJAX loops-Maintained a material design UI with the JavaScript library React-Collaborated with multiple people on the project using Git and GitHub

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  Enterprise Community Partners

  Jun 2016 - May 2017

  Community Impact Strategies Data Intern

  - Designed data entry and analysis system for over 1100 surveys- Generated 17 Residence reports using data analysis done in R which was presented to a board - Results of analysis will impact over 4600 people (who live in affordable housing residences)- Trained and managed data entry interns- Gave basic tutorial of R and RStudio

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  Bates White Economic Consulting

  Jul 2017 - Jul 2018

  Consultant

  - Worked on a team to build an internal tool that can search and categorize many documents. Interfaced with Solr using Python to index documents, update relevant metadata, and run “More Like This” queries to retrieve similar documents.- Supported the team in deploying Blacklight and being able to scale up to 1M documents- Web scraped ~40K webpages using Python, Beautiful Soup, and Pandas to create an aggregate data set- Was a part of a team that refactored an internal tool, written in C++, used to run insurance allocations- Worked extensively on several settlement support cases using Stata and Excel Show less

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  InspiringApps

  Oct 2018 - Nov 2022

  Software Engineer

  - Collaborated with stakeholders to determine project requirements and led project demos, resulting in high client satisfaction and understanding of what was being built at each stage- Mentored software developers in multiple languages, providing guidance on code clarity and effectiveness, resulting in improved understanding of data structures and architecture principles- Created estimates and delegated tickets to teammates with a focus on balancing for growth opportunities and meeting deadlines- Developed Express & MySQL based RESTful APIs and backends to facilitate the functionality of multiple web and mobile applications- Collaborated in multi-person virtual teams using Git and GitHub to create 10+ CMS and complex mobile-first apps built with Javascript, HTML, and CSS- Spearheaded several company initiatives to increase company bonding and cohesion, including highly attended virtual meetups- Increased documentation and helped formally define processes and workflows to increase overall company efficiency and efficacy- Spun up AWS EC2 Ubuntu servers and utilized IAM policies, Cloudfront, RDS, Apache, PM2- Used AWS SageMaker to leverage cloud ML capabilities (text classification) into reusable API- Analyzed data collected from an iOS app to find trends in order to determine commonality for retention& expansion of app users- Wrote JS scripts to parse CSV data & automatically update database for healthcare billing Show less

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  Chief

  Nov 2022 - Oct 2024

  - Managed 4-9 software engineers ranging in seniority (junior to lead engineer) and expertise (React Native, full-stack, frontend). Coached them through performance goals and provided growth opportunities, resulting in them consistently getting on-track semi-annual reviews- Directed first A/B test and enhanced reporting for engineering team metrics including 50% bugs fixed per quarter, fewer than 3 major bugs per release, and team health scores of 7/10- Facilitated agile ceremonies to align on project goals, removed any blockers, and increased transparency into the status of ongoing work across the team, resulting in all team projects being delivered on schedule without compromising on maintainability and scalability- Won yearly Inclusivity at Chief award for fostering inclusive teams- Led multiple teams of up to 10 people including engineers, contractors, Product Manager, Design, and QA to release complex new digital features and automations for 20,000 users- Participated in an exclusive, invite-only Internal Advisory Board to promote better feedback within the company- Winner of the Tech team superlative “Chaos controller award” by routinely turning everyone’s craziest ideas into workable plans including running the Chief’24 Hackathon Show less - Partnered with Product and stakeholders for the planning and implementations of backend integrations, ensuring timely, accurate completion of team’s engineering tasks by deadlines- Coached and mentored engineers, helping to solve day-to-day problems and build long term skills, with a focus on continuous feedback- Prioritized work and daily staffing by creating tickets and story estimations, organizing upcoming sprints, and assigning tasks, resulting in less down time and clear ownership- Spearheaded a 2-week project that resulted in a 700% increase in database efficiency during high traffic events- Worked cross functionally within the organization in the Architecture and On-call guilds which spurred long term changes and best practices Show less

  • Engineering Manager

    Sept 2023 - Oct 2024

  • Lead Engineer

    Nov 2022 - Sept 2023
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  Wheel

  Dec 2024 - now

  Manager, Engineering