May 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr · New York, United States

• Implemented custom authentication using Web3Auth and WAGMI protocols with RainbowKit, enabling seamless login and profile registration for users, resulting in enhanced security, privacy, and a streamlined user experience for logging in with multiple wallets and Email.
• Utilized AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and Lambda functions to implement ECDSA signatures, ensuring secure contract signing from a protected endpoint, enhancing data integrity, and mitigating the risk of tampering or unauthorized access.
• Built a robust data repository using Prisma and PostgreSQL, effectively managing marketplace users' profiles, owned assets, and tracking the artwork of partnered artists. This centralized database solution optimized data organization, retrieval, and facilitated seamless tracking of user transactions, leading to improved operational efficiency and enhanced user satisfaction.
• Successfully executed a seamless data migration process, transferring data from a relational database to a document database in Firebase, improving scalability, flexibility, and real-time data synchronization, enabling efficient data querying and retrieval, while ensuring data integrity and providing a solid foundation for future application growth

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 · 2 mos · New York, United States

• Lead the instruction of courses on under the hood details of Node.js. Involved intimately delving deep into the internal workings of Node.js including the V8 engine, libuv, the event loop and everything in between through lectures, diagraming, and help desk.
• Provided technical mentorship to students throughout the course.
• Worked closely with the Programs Coordinator on student progress, academic and cultural
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Aug 2019 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos · New York, New York

• Utilized Protocol Buffers to Instrument gRPC services and build out message types to tailor data to React Native frontend client needs through REST gateways
• Migrated & Architected data models through GORM, Django, and Ecto to build a foundation of content within a Postgres database
• Deployed Elixir/Absinthe GQL server through a hosted cloud platform to serve a React Native Application using Elixirs low latency & high concurrency levels to process a high volume of requests with the power of the underlying Erlang Virtual Machine
• Implemented an authentication pipeline using AWS Cognito user pools and identity pools in conjunction with lambda function triggers to securely allow users to sign in through a custom login-with-code procedure, ultimately serving over 200K users
• Leveraged AWS Cognito's identity pools to incorporate Single Sign On with Apple, Google, & Facebook through the Amplify CLI, enabling a smooth login process for users.
• Built React Native Components to serve users views for Content & Ads through a Webview
• Used Flipper & Charles to debug the mobile app and inspect network traffic packets
• Employed Python through Django's REST Framework to instrument business logic as well as validate JWT's to serve curated and personalized content through Axios's in-house CMS and internal API to clients

Apr 2019 – Apr 2019 · 0 mo

• Built core CLI tool using Node backend, and a user-facing API built using Commander.js and Inquirer.js to prompt for and validate user input, and the FS API to concurrently generate directory and file structure using streams and buffers, creating custom boilerplate based on user input
• Generated Webpack config files based on user preferences, giving options for bundling, minification, hot module reloading using the webpack dev and proxy servers for better code testing, and Babel for the transpilation and loading of JSX and ES6+ into browser-compatible JavaScript
• Published as an NPM package, leveraging the lightweight Node.js runtime and the ecosystem’s ease of use and distribution to improve UX

Mar 2019 – Apr 2019 · 1 mo

• Configured Nginx as a proxy server, implementing horizontal scaling by distributing client traffic to websocket servers using a round robin algorithm and leveraging its lightweight asynchronous I/O to concurrently route client requests and balance server load during heavy traffic
• Utilized HTTP cache within Nginx to store static information, increasing responsiveness and reducing requests to the API server and database
• Implemented Websockets for event-based bi-directional data flow, providing full duplex communication channels over a TCP connection, increasing perceived real-time performance in the application and reducing client load by not continuously sending payload packets to client
• Architected GraphQL schemas alongside Apollo’s subscription service to enable real-time communication for retrieving specific data sets from a single API endpoint, reducing server calls and providing an efficient endpoint to minimize over-fetching compared to RESTful architecture
• Integrated Webpack’s built in code splitting and image optimization, decreasing bundle size while integrating libraries to decrease server calls

Mar 2019 – Mar 2019 · 0 mo

• Engineered React frontend to create a SPA, taking advantage of its declarative nature to create reusable Stateful and Presentational components, reducing code redundancy and improve application scalability and facilitating easier testing, code maintenance, and refactoring
• Utilized React Router for efficient loading and navigation of views, coupled with authentication checks to improve security, ultimately creating a single page application for low-latency page transitions and reduced server load, improving UX by boosting responsiveness after initial load
• Leveraged Redux with Thunk middleware, implementing a global state management solution to ease debugging and alleviate excessive prop drilling by mapping state and props to container components, and leveraging actions that returned functions to fetch from an external API
• Inserted JWTs for session storage in the form of HttpOnly cookies, to act as self-contained, reusable, digitally signed secret tokens, disallowing access from client-side JavaScript to prevent cross-site scripting attacks, and persisting authentication for a consistent user experience
• Authenticated users with Spotify OAuth 2.0, using an authentication server to allow cross origin resource sharing, transferring core security concerns and reducing bounce rate by eliminating the need for signing up, and providing data for analysis of user info and playlist preferences
• Configured Webpack and Babel to transpile JSX and ES6+ to ES5 for cross-browser compatibility before bundling with static assets for ease of distribution and faster load times and enabling a seamless development experience with hot module reloading via dev server for fast debugging

Feb 2019 – Jun 2019 · 4 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Constructed a GraphQL Apollo state management visualizer that displays deserialized data from the Apollo client hook in a searchable tree hierarchical structure, creating a GraphQL debugging tool for providing clear, filterable, data-driven visualizations of state and user mutations
• Architected core algorithm that interfaced with the Apollo client hook to traverse through the cache while parsing out the state before normalizing data to pass to D3 layout algorithm and SVG rendering library for visualization, allowing for rendering in a tree data structure
• Utilized the Jest testing framework and Enzyme for shallow rendering of React components, implementing test driven development workflow with unit and snapshot tests, confirming frontend functionality, preventing unwanted side effects, and validating integration of refactored code
• Deployed Node.js/Express server on a hosted cloud platform to server landing page, using Node’s asynchronous single-threaded I/O for better throughput and performance under heavy traffic, and leveraging Github web-hooks for CI/CD integration into an agile development workflow
• Employed the Observer Design Pattern through Apollo MutationObserver API, listening for events within Apollo Client’s state management to notify the client side script of rendered information and intercepted DOM changes, leading to a more dynamic representation of Apollo state

Jan 2018 – May 2018 · 4 mos

• Utilized PHP as a frontend templating language, using string interpolation to build reusable components, collecting form data, generating dynamic page content, and sending and receiving persistent session data
• Authored PHP frontend with reusable, dynamic templates, generating dynamic page content displaying relevant data from Laravel API server
• Administrated MySQL database to persist user and forum information, creating server controllers with complex joins to dynamically query for specific data sets from multiple relational tables, leveraging SQL’s transactional architecture and type enforcement for a more stable database

May 2017 – Aug 2017 · 3 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Jan 2014 – Dec 2018 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Gettysburg

• Maintained a high-redundancy collection of system images for archival and reuse in case of system failure, gzipped for more efficient storage, stored on a local server for better accessibility, using multiple redundant drives in a RAID configuration to reduce points of failure
• Configured firewall settings for client computers to allow access to FTP servers on campus LAN by whitelisting the IP addresses of file servers

May 2013 – Aug 2013 · 3 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Used PHP for server-side scripting, formatting collected data into usable templates through string interpolation for display on main website
• Utilized Bash scripting for web scraping, using the libcurl URL retrieval library to download sites via AJAX, and regular expressions to clean up the retrieved strings before piping the re-formatted data to PHP to filter for industry key words for use in search engine optimization

May 2012 – Aug 2012 · 3 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area