About

Experience

• Senior Product Engineer, ProPublica

  Jan, 2024 - Present

• Senior Software Engineer

  Oct, 2022 - Aug, 2023 11 months

  Part of a small team working on censorship resistant, decentralized, peer-to-peer VPN technology for a stealth startup.

  • Built accounts, authentication, and payments. This functionality was crucial to the company securing $3 million in Seed Funding

  • Enhanced core technologies and VPN desktop application

  • Researched and applied anti-censorship techniques and peer-to-peer technologies

  • Setup and documented infrastructure and deployment processes

  • Provided techinical feedback and guidance on proposed changes

• Senior Software Engineer | Software Engineer, KickUp Inc.

  Jun, 2018 - Sept, 2022 4 years, 3 months

  Responsible for KickUp's Professional Learning and Growth platform.

  • Developed full stack features in JavaScript, Python, React JS, Django, GraphQL and PostgreSQL

  • Provided technical feedback, guidance, and mentorship

  • Researched new capabilities and technologies

  • Ensured reliability and security of the platform as member of Ops Team

  • Led projects from architecture planning through to deployment

  • Guided partner organizations through SAML Single Sign On integration

  • Founded an Engineering Apprenticeship program in 2020

• Software Developer, Testfire Inc.

  Feb, 2018 - Jun, 2018 4 months

  Responsible for Hendrix.ai, an AI powered virtual meeting assistant.

  • Full stack development in TypeScript with Node.js, React, and CouchDB

• Software Design & Architecture Subject Expert, Faculty of Science, University of Alberta

  May, 2017 - Dec, 2017 8 months

  Helped develop a four course specialization, Software Design & Architecture on Coursera.

  • Developed Android applications for the course Capstone projects

  • Researched and wrote lessons, programming tutorials, coding examples, quiz questions, and code diagrams

  • 45,000 - 105,000 students enrolled per course: Object-Oriented Design, Design Patterns, Software Architecture, and Service-Oriented Architecture

• Summer Research Assistant, Computing Science Department, University of Alberta

  May, 2017 - Aug, 2017 4 months

  Assisted Professor Elmallah with research on Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks.

  • Wrote Python programs to simulate free-floating transmitting nodes in the Gulf Stream

  • Implemented algorithms to analyze simulations

  • Plotted trajectories, compared statistics and metrics of interest

• Teaching Assistant, Computing Science Department, University of Alberta

  Sep, 2016 - Dec, 2016 4 months   |   Jan, 2017 - May, 2017 4 months   |   Jul, 2017 - Aug, 2017 2 months

  TA for the course Introduction to the Foundations of Computation I.

  • Mentored students in Python, algorithms and data structures

  • Supervised lab periods, proctored exams, graded lab assignments and exams

• Summer Research Assistant, Computing Science Department, University of Alberta

  May, 2015 - Aug, 2015 4 months

  Benchmarked the power consumption of mobile apps for Professor Hindle's Green Star project.

  • Defined user test cases for common mobile app tasks

  • Wrote bash scripts to simulate human performance of these tasks

Skills

Education

Awards

• CIPS Donald B Scott Memorial Award, CIPS

  Awarded: Aug, 2015

  Given based on superior academic achievement by nomination from the Department of Computing Science.

• Jason Lang Scholarship, Alberta Student Aid

  Awarded: Dec, 2015

  Granted to recognize and reward students for their academic achievement and to encourage them to continue in their undergraduate program of study.

• Green and Gold Leadership and Professional Development Grant, University of Alberta

  Awarded: May, 2014

  Grant awarded to fund attendence to the Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

• Pearson Education Canada Essay Prize in First-Year English, Pearson

  Awarded: May, 2016

  Awarded annually for a superior essay by a student in a half-year junior English course.

Volunteer

• Curriculum Team, Philly Tech Sistas

  Feb, 2019 - Jul, 2019 5 months

  Philly Tech Sistas is an organization that empowers women of color with the skills and leadership tools needed to thrive.

  • Designed the curriculum for course HTML & CSS II

  • Provided feedback on HTML & CSS I and JavaScript I

• Vice President, President Ada's Team

  May, 2015 - May, 2017 2 years

  Ada's Team is a student group at the University of Alberta that promotes diversity in Computing Science.

  • Facilitated Peer-to-Peer workshop series: recruited student speakers, promoted, and hosted the events

  • Hosted a Cat Ears Arduino workshop for Iverson Day, Rainbow Welcome Week

  • Coordinated volunteers for tutoring, office hours, and events

Interests

• anonymity antique buttons archive.org arts & crafts biking cats CO2 monitoring cryptography email spam Etsy fabric Folding@home gardening NewPipe OpenStreetMap sewing Snowflake uBlock Origin