I’m a full-stack developer and devops enthusiast passionate about improving the flexibility, stability, and quality of products using industry best practices, such as automated, developer-written testing, peer reviews, and build/release automation.
Relevant Experience
Senior Full-stack Developer, SAP, Tel Aviv Israel— 2022-2023 (corporate-wide layoff)
- Troubleshot and eliminated costly race-conditions across multiple golang microservices, refactoring code to assure correctness and testability
- Significantly reduced QA resources by re-implementing online loyalty app using test-driven-development techniques in React & TypeScript
- Decreased development/QA churn for loyalty app by migrating React code-base to TypeScript
Senior Full-stack Developer, Mountainpasstech, Jerusalem Israel— 2019-2022
- Opened communication channels to high-value investors by leading development of a native app in React Native for OurCrowd
- Decreased time-to-market for a fintech mobile app by introducing disciplined peer code reviews, TypeScript, test-driven development, and build pipelines
- Stabilized financial software by migrating to a containerized Django/Postgres service
Software/devops Engineer, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland USA — 2006-2019
- Decreased content “go-live” time by developing a Django-based CMS on top of GitHub APIs
- Facilitated monitoring of high-traffic site (pubmed.gov) by developing custom JavaScript logging API using Node.js
- Improved developer efficiency and application reliability by designing TeamCity CI/CD pipeline templates
Content Manager, Nextel/Sprint, Reston, Virginia USA — 2003-2006
Expanded bilingual cell phone service market by localizing web content from English to Spanish
QA Engineer, Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA — 1998-2000
Broadened market for graphic arts software by leading user-interface localization team
Translator, Accent on Languages, Berkeley California USA — 2001-2003
Developed and maintained bilingual dictionary in concert with the Drug Enforcement Agency
Skills
Bash, CSS, Django, Docker, Functional programming, Git, Golang, Google Cloud, HTML, gRPC, JavaScript, Jest, Kubernetes, Linux, MySQL, Node.js, Postgres, Python, React, Redux, React Native, Rust (learning), Selenium, Test-driven-development, TypeScript
Education
- lithespeed, Herndon, VA — Agile Scrum master Certification — 2012
- San Francisco University — Technical and requirements writing — 2001
- Boston University, Boston, MA — International Relations — 2003
- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO — Spanish Language and Literature — 1995