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For the past five years, I have worked at the intersection of government and technology. I am passionate about improving access to public services by making technology platforms more reliable and easy to use.
Work Experience
- Airbnb
- Senior Software Engineer March 2019 - Present
- Tech lead on the Regulatory Platform Team building software to meet Airbnb’s legal/compliance needs
- OpenGov
- Software Engineer Dec 2016 - Feb 2019
- Key member on team migrating monolithic Ruby on Rails application to event driven, reactive, microservices framework
- Airphrame
- GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Analyst, Jan 2015 - July 2016
- Analyze geospatial data for drone mapping startup
- codementor.io
- Technical Writer, 2016
- Articles: Ruby best practices, Algorithms, Interview question optimization
- LA Metro
- Planning Analyst Intern, Summer 2013
- Wrote technical environmental documents for LAX Metro Connector project
Volunteering
- Microsoft TEALs
- Taught high school computer science in Kentucky for 2019-2020 school year
- Teaching Assistant for AP CS Principles in CA Central Valley
- VoteForward
- Volunteer software engineer to help get out the vote for 2020 election
- Built admin tools to manage voters and letter writers
Technologies I 💙
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Functional Java
Personal Projects
- Blackjack
- In this simple but elegant blackjack app, you can wager your bets and try to beat the odds!
- Built on Sinatra and in the style of clean, modular, object oriented programming
- Brick Breaker
- Fully static plain JavaScript + jQuery + CSS brick breaker game
- SF Bike Central
- A platform for Bay Area bikers to report bike related incidents
- Make it Count!
- A multi-platform tool to help inspire people to go to the polls in 2016 election
- Motivates Americans (especially in swing states) to learn about and participate in the electoral process
- hBook
- Fully featured Facebook clone with secure login, photo uploads, posts, comments, likes, etc.
- F.O.M.A.A (Fear of Missing Out on Art and Alcohol)
- Your guide to exploring San Franciso and not missing out on both the Art and Bar Scenes
- Won 🏆FIRST PLACE🏆 at the San Francisco Women’s Hackathon for technical performance