Software Engineer at Dwolla, June 2018 to now, Des Moines, IA
Designed and implemented a Scala microservice to handle Knowledge Based Authentication for API users, reducing instances of manual intervention by 60%
Implemented Elasticsearch backed user searching solution, reducing search times by 50% over existing solution
Implemented method to accept 3rd party Customer Identification Program validations reducing our operating costs by and upwards of $10,000 YOY
Convert legacy .net C# applications to Scala based microservice alternatives
Site Reliability Engineer at Workiva Feburary 2017 to June 2018 Ames, IA
Coordinated efforts between product teams and support teams to develop a sustainable and scalable support plan for their products.
Identifed, improved, and automated processes central to ongoing support and maintenance of our existing infrastructure
Maintained complex application infrastructure across Google and Amazon cloud services during quarterly on-call rotation.
Software Support Engineer at Workiva May 2013 to Feburary 2017 Ames, IA
Identified and corrected inconsistencies with data in a large scale Google App Engine application.
Advised development teams on ways to improve uptimes and reliability of multiple application services running on Google App Engine.
Developed support tooling to enable a team of 10 customer support engineers to self-service common customer issues allowing Software Engineers to focus on product improvement.
Software Engineering Intern at Pearson Education May 2012 to August 2012 Iowa City, IA
Designed and developed an JSF portal to increase visiblity into standarized testing statistics for a team of 20 analyists.
Software Engineering Intern at Honeywell (formerly Intermec) May 2011 to December 2011 Cedar Rapids, IA
Executed numerous rounds of product testing as part of the customer solution testing operation. This involved validating software and hardware of point-of-sale systems both independently and together as a single product. Each device ran on Windows CE and needed to work the same across a field of 15 different devices each with their own unique use cases.
IT Intern at Newport news Shipbuilding May 2010 to August 2010
Added additional features to existing Microsoft Access database and corresponding frontend program
Community Involvement
Workiva Diversity and Inclusion Committee – Founder
Created Workiva’s first Diversity and Inclusion initiatives at their home office in Iowa. Helped to form a framework that lead to the creation and support of 5 employee affinity/resources groups supporting: Employees of Color, Women, Military Veterans, Parents, and LGBT Workivans.
African American Leadership Academy – Fellow
Graduated from an 8 month program to train Black and African American Iowans in the skills needed to find success in personal, business, and communty engagement. Worked with a team of 10 black professionals with varying industrial backgrounds to host a resource fair in one of Des Moines’ largest black neighborhoods
Des Moines Neighbors – Vice Chair
Helped to rewrite the organizational charter to better engage a younger and more diverse group of neighborhood activist within Des Moines.
Education
Iowa State University Ames, IA
Bachelor’s of Science: Computer Engineering, May 2013