Aptitude & Expertise

Get to know my background, experiences and passions that drive my work in the tech world.

Design 🎨
Code 💻
Test 🧪
Deliver 🚛
3+ Systems Owned
6 Years of Experience
4+ Production Apps

Professional Experience

Software Engineer

Tax Compliance Services Firm (Private)
Aug 2023 — Present

Developing high-volume enterprise tax platforms and interconnected applications.

  • Played a key role in developing a React/Laravel customer-facing platform for onboarding, secure document handling, role-based access control, and 2FA, integrating with an internal system to support workflows for 50+ tax practitioners.
  • Implemented full stack features across internal and external apps, ensuring reliable data handling, including background jobs and queues, GraphQL reporting, and third-party API integrations such as AWS S3, AWS SES, and Microsoft Graph API.
  • Contributed to enterprise modernization by migrating internal tools from CodeIgniter to Laravel, rewriting controllers, models, and database logic to improve performance, maintainability, and reliability of a critical tax compliance platform.

Software Developer (Technical Analyst)

FIS
Aug 2022 — May 2023

Contributed to enterprise financial software solutions for banking clients.

  • Improved an enterprise application for internal users to provide 1.8 million customers with a wide variety of financial services by utilizing advanced JavaScript algorithms, Java, JavaServer Pages, and XML, for optimal scalability.
  • Trained by FIS on Systematics. Utilized knowledge to conduct IFX transactions linked to a Mainframe and ESL transactions formatted using XSL templates linked to an Oracle database with over 4000 tables.
  • Part of Systematics Application Support and assigned to the Bank of the West account during the Bank of Montreal merger, in which I provided enhancements to a codebase with over 9500 source files.

Career Sabbatical: Upskilling

App Academy
Feb 2022 — Jul 2022

Dedicated period of intensive professional development.

  • Voluntarily paused professional career to complete a 1000+ hour immersive software engineering curriculum, mastering modern full-stack architectures and agile workflows.

Web Developer & IT Admin

AAL & Service
Jan 2020 — Jan 2022

Led digital transformation and infrastructure management.

  • Increased customer retention by over 37% during the COVID-19 pandemic - a challenging period in the transportation industry by designing and developing an entirely new services-based website.
  • Spearheaded initiative of a new website from the ground up including development and design, migrating to a new secure hosting solution, updating payment systems, and researching for a new efficient transportation booking system.
  • Single-handedly managed technical infrastructure that involved establishing a new company server and embracing better security practices for company computer systems and networks.

Academic Background

Kennesaw State University

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science • 2015 - 2019
Data Structures Algorithm Analysis Database Systems Computer Networking Computer Org. & Arch. Prog. Languages Concepts Operating Systems Software Arch. & Design

App Academy

Immersive Software Engineering Program • Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
1000+ hour rigorous course < 3% acceptance rate Daily pair programming Mastery-Based learning

Résumé

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Certifications

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

In Progress

Epic React

by Kent C. Dodds

Completed

Skills

Frontend Engineering

JavaScript TypeScript React Tanstack Query Redux Zustand React Router ExtJS / Sencha Astro Vite Next.js Tailwind CSS HTML CSS Material UI (MUI) Chakra UI

Backend Engineering

Node.js Express Python Django Flask Java Spring Boot PHP Laravel CodeIgniter REST APIs GraphQL Microsoft Graph API AWS S3 AWS SES

Databases & Storage

SQL PostgreSQL MySQL Redis Supabase Sequelize SQLAlchemy Alembic Eloquent ORM

Mobile Development

React Native Expo

Testing & Quality Engineering

Jest React Testing Library Mocha Chai PyTest JUnit Cypress Playwright Selenium

DevOps & Infrastructure

Git GitHub Actions Docker Nginx HAProxy AWS Cloudflare Vercel Netlify Linux WSL

Developer Tools & Workflow

Postman Fiddler DbVisualizer dbForge Jira Zoho draw.io dbdiagram.io

Applied AI & Automation Integration

OpenAI API Anthropic API LLM prompt design Embeddings AI-assisted workflows API-based AI integrations AI Agents

UI & Product Design

Figma Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Premiere Pro

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