I’m a front/backend developer and devops enthusiast passionate about industry best practices, such as peer reviews, test-centered development and build/release automation.
Relevant Experience
Full-stack web/mobile app developer, Mountainpasstech, Jerusalem IL— 2019-2021
- 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 a build pipeline
- Stabilized financial software by migrating legacy stack to a containerized Django/Postgres service
Devops/software engineer, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD — 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
- Allowed monitoring of high-traffic site by developing custom JavaScript logging API using Node.js
QA Engineer, Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA — 1998-2000
Broadened market for graphic arts software by leading user-interface localization team
Skills
Angular, Appium, Shell Scripting, CSS, Django, Docker, Git, Golang, Google Cloud, Grafana, HTML, JavaScript, Jest, Kubernetes, Linux, MySQL, Node.js, Postgres, Python, ReactJs, React Native, RESTful APIs, Rust (learning), Selenium, Shell, 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