👨‍💻experience

I was the first engineer to join Charlie Health, so I've played an instrumental role in establishing our technical and cultural foundations. We're building the digital tools to power our life-saving mental health programs, and watching those grow from nothing to the multitude of tools we have today as been one of the most rewarding chapters of my career.

I was 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 was that of an advocate for better quality-assurance as the engineering organization grew. In practice, that 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 worked on the small team that developed and maintained a large network of travel content sites. There I worked on a number of new user-facing features and led the migration of our main frontend application to React, a huge productivity improvement from our ancient FlightJS implementation.

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.