👨‍💻experience

I’m a lead engineer on the team that directs people to the most appropriate health care providers, working across the stack to develop and release new user-facing features and products. A large part of my role has also been that of an advocate for better quality-assurance as our engineering organization grows. In practice, that has involved work like identifying and removing roadblocks to wider adoption of automated testing and static analysis, as well as educating teams on how to get the most out of these tools.

As a Full Stack Software Engineer at SmarterTravel, I work on the small team that develops and maintains a large network of travel content sites. There I most recently led the effort to incrementally modernize Airfarewatchdog’s frontend using React, Typescript, and Storybook. I work closely with product to scope and implement features across the stack, from our many Java Spring Boot services to our data ETLs and pipelines. I have also worked on our CI pipelines and assisted in the move towards Amazon AWS.

I initially joined SmarterTravel as an Integration Engineer on our ad syndication team. I started by writing custom JavaScript for new partners that would make it trivial to integrate their sites’ with our platform. I quickly moved on to contribute new features and products across the stack, developing on our frontend SDK, our React admin tools, and our backend Spring Boot syndication service.

This was my first official step into software engineering. After months of learning on my own, I joined Launch Academy to learn the basics of web development. I spent 10 weeks there learning how the web works. My capstone was a project exploring the lyrical diversity of my favorite musicians using d3.js and the last.fm API. You can see it here or in in this promotional video Launch made.

As a Research Associate at Cornerstone, I managed a team responsible for reviewing a mutual fund’s risk management procedures and remained in regular contact with our experts and clients. I also cleaned, maintained, and analyzed a large dataset on industry trading of interest-rate swaps. Finally, I also led the recruitment efforts to hire 18 new analysts which involved training new interviewers, coordinating on-campus events across New England, and personally interviewing over 100 candidates.

In this role, I managed a team of analysts responsible for reviewing hundreds of due diligence documents and for replicating results in an opposing expert’s reports. I collaborated closely with one of Cornerstone’s top experts to implement a statistical test that would detect improper trading by mutual fund managers. I also developed a hour-long interactive case presentation to introduce undergraduate students to economic consulting which has since been used firmwide.

As an Analyst, I was responsible for completing financial and economic analyses and presenting my results to clients and experts. Some of these projects involved analyzing the creation and performance of mortgage-backed securities, estimating the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on the performance of a major family of mutual funds, and measuring the effect of a firm’s allegedly fraudulent marketing on the sales of its primary competitor.

I helped Professor Kelsey Jack analyze field experiment data to understand the impact of local leaders’ actions upon the contribution of public goods by community members. I did so by coding the econometric analysis and preparing summaries of results. The results have since been published in the Journal of Public Economics under the title “Leadership and the voluntary provision of public goods: Field evidence from Bolivia.”

In this role, I taught weekly sessions of Principles of Economics and tutored undergraduates on fundamental concepts of micro and macroeconomics. I also served as the department tutor for all graduate and undergraduate courses.

I spent a summer on NPR’s Planet Money team conducting research for stories, editing interviews for radio, and contributing to their blog.

I was an after-school teacher for the Advent School. In that role, I wrote and taught a year-long curriculum for the arts and crafts class for students from Early Childhood to Second Grade.

I was an Americorps member at Rebuilding Together Boston. In that role, I developed and began the implementation of a multi-year plan to inform the community of our services. I worked with dozens of community partners and conducted presentations for non-profits, elected officials, city agencies, and neighborhood associations.

I spent a summer teaching reading courses to students ranging from preschoolers to working adults. This work involved traveling weekly to teaching sites in California, Oregon, and Washington.

I spent a summer working with Professor Glenn Appleby to implement in Matlab an algorithm he developed to calculate specific invariants in matrices.