About Me
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Ex-Capital One Principal Associate, Ex-AT&T Senior Specialist Software Engineer
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9+ years of software development experience
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4+ years in Finance, Payments, eCommerce, Credit Cards, Fintech, and Banking
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Java, Java Spring, SQL, JavaScript, React.js, Typescript, Python, Node.js, Ruby
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Going back to graduate school for a second masters in Computer Science part-time
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Adopted South Korean American
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Lived in Seattle, Downtown Chicago, and San Francisco
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Enjoys games, philosophy, logic, computers, and math
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Avid boardgamer, trading card collector, and plant guy
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Proudly Vegetarian and Net-Zero Carbon
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Experience working with Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence tools
Fun Stats
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Honor percentile: Top 1.562% - Codewars - Leaderboard position: #9,669
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8 badges earned - LinkedIn - Must be top 30% of test-takers to earn
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Rank 69,674 / 5,059,951 - HackerRank - Practice Score 1456.56
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Rank 82,107 - LeetCode - Easy problems solved beats 99.4%, medium problems solved beats 94.9%
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X9 average user - CodesSignal - Job screen score of 528 (New Scale) at the top ~15% of test-takers
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Rank 351,013 / 22,026,764 - StackOverflow - 716 reputation
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68 problems originally solved - Project Euler - Top 3.041%
Work History
- (2023-2024) Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
- (2020-2022) Intermediate Software Engineer at Fortune 500, Public, and Top VC-Backed Companies
- (2018-2020) Developer Relations (Software Engineering Technical Writer)
- (2016-2018) Freelance Software Developer
- (2014-2016) Junior Software Developer
- (2012-2013) Nonprofit Work in Academia
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Senior Software Engineer - Capital One (through Hired.com) (2023-02 to 2024-04)
- Richmond, VA - Full Time, Remote
- Java, React, Spring, Snowflake, Splunk, Python, AWS
- Serverless stack migration, features for top credit card, financial security and compliance
- Card Tech Team Hackathon Winner, top 5 shoutouts from Payments org Q3 and Q4 2023, $M’s saved for customers/company, enterprise-wide platform tooling
- Performance bonuses
- Left for opportunities outside the Credit Card industry
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Software Engineer II - TrueCar (through Hired.com) (2022-09-07 to 2022-09-15)
- Los Angeles, CA - Full Time, Remote
- Ruby, React.js, Rails
- Ultimately declined their offer of employment
- Immediate voluntary departure for better company fit
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Technical Writer III - Aquent (at Microsoft Research AI Content and Strategy) (2022-06 to 2022-08-15)
- Redmond, WA - Contract, Remote
- .NET, Machine Learning, Documentation Tooling, JavaScript, Node.js, Markdown, Azure
- Documentation, document tooling
- Completed requirements early
- Contract extended through end of year
- Voluntary departure
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Software Engineer III - Dosh (acquired by Cardlytics) (2022-01 to 2022-06)
- Austin, TX - Full Time, Remote
- Serverless, AWS, Lambda, React, TypeScript, BitBucket
- Internal tooling, compliance, legacy migration
- Bug fixes, public REST API, $M’s in customer offers enabled
- Voluntary departure
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Software Engineer - AT&T (2021-10 to 2021-11)
- Austin, TX - Full Time, Remote
- Java, Java EE, SQL, JSP, Azure
- Immediate voluntary departure for better company fit
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Developer Relations II - GoTeleport (Gravitational, Y-Combinator) (2021-04 to 2021-07)
- Oakland, CA - Full Time, Remote
- GoLang, Markdown, Git, SSH
- Documentation, code samples, testing
- Helped to significantly improve traffic and customer satisfaction, assigned tactical objectives met: $M’s funding secured
- Voluntary departure
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Software Engineer II - Amount (through Hired.com) (2020-06 to 2021-03)
- Chicago, IL - Full Time, Remote
- Ruby, Rails, RSpec, PostGres, AWS, GitHub, GraphQL, Python
- Backend, data quality, loan servicing
- Work helped to bring in new Wall Street bank, assigned tactical objectives met: $M’s funding secured
- Performance bonuses
- Voluntary departure
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Software Developer - Self-Employed (Contract, Freelance) (2015-09 to 2020-07)
- Many Locations - Many role types: Contract, Part Time, Remote
- Java, Java Spring, React.js, Node.js, Python, Django, SQL
- Backend, frontend, bug bounties, consulting
- Baeldung, Kleros.io, X-Team, Shoppe, Thinkful, etc.
- Many: Contracts completed, voluntary departures, etc.
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Programmer Writer III - Aquent (at Microsoft Azure IoT) (2018-08 to 2020-02-28)
- Redmond, WA - Contract, Remote
- .NET, Documentation, JavaScript, Node.js, REST APIs, Azure, Markdown
- Documentation, testing, SDK's, code samples
- Both Azure Digital Twins and Azure Time Series Insights went from Preview to General Availability
- Contract extended to the maximum 18 months
- Contract completed
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Software Engineer - D3 Banking (2015-12 to 2016-01)
- Omaha, NE - Full Time, Onsite
- Java, Java Spring, ActionScript, AWS, MSSQL, GitHub, Ant
- Invited back
- Voluntary departure
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Software Developer - Proxibid (eBay Live Auction Partner) (2015-04 to 2015-08)
- Omaha, NE - Full Time, Onsite
- Java, Java Spring, Backbone.JS, Rackspace, MSSQL, Subversion
- Point on eBay integration, high use API for customers, assigned tactical objectives met: $M’s funding secured
- Voluntary departure
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Software Engineer - D3 Banking (2015-01 to 2015-04)
- Omaha, NE - Full Time, Onsite
- Java, ActionScript, AWS, MSSQL, Subversion, Ant
- Scaled to ~200+ Banks, ~200K+ users, assigned tactical objectives met: $M’s funding secured
- Promoted
- Voluntary departure
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Junior Java Developer - D3 Banking (through Modis) (2014-07 to 2015-01)
- Omaha, NE - Full Time, Onsite
- Java, ActionScript, AWS, MSSQL, Subversion, Ant
- Scaled to 97+ Banks, 100K+ users
- Promoted, converted
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Graduate Assistant - Northern Illinois University (Graduate Assistant to the Chair of the AHCD) (2012-08 to 2013-05)
- DeKalb, IL - Part Time, Onsite, Student
- Center for the Deaf Blind administrative duties, Graduate Assistant, Federal grant compliance
- Helen Keller National Center Liaison, selected university-wide for the role
- Maximum weekly hours allowed
- Completed education
Education
Humanities Degrees in 2024:
Professional and Academic References
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References available upon request.
Selected Awards, Memberships, and Honors
Selected Publications
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(2021) Gravitational Documentation - GoLang, React, JavaScript
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(2018-2020) Azure Digital Twins Documentation - Markdown, Azure, IoT
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(2018) Quantum Computation - Python, Quantum Computing, Angular
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(2018) Procedural Generation - Procedural Generation, Games
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(2018) From CMS to WAF - WordPress, React, JavaScript
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(2017) Reactive Support: WebSession - Java, Reactive Spring Boot
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(2017) Spring Dispatcher Servlet - Java, Spring
Code Samples
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(2024) Java Spring, JUnit Jupiter, Cucumber - Full suite of Integration, Unit, and Behavior Driven Testing examples
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(2024) JavaScript, Canvas API, HTML5 - Experiments with writing SDKs, Libraries, and Animation
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(2023+) C++, Python, Ruby, Java, Javascript, Algorithms, SQL, AWS, Azure, Engineering - Hosted study notes and code sample links
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(2023) Python, Flask, Machine Learning, Angular, Docker - Fullstack containerized Python Flask Artificial Intelligence example
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(2023) Go, SQL - Fullstack GoLang API with backing SQL database and Worker Queue
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(2023) Mongo, Express.js, Angular.js, Node.js, Docker - Full MEAN-stack example with containers
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(2023) Java Spring Boot, SQL, Data JPA, Postgres, Docker - Headless Spring Boot example with backing Postgres on Docker
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(2022) Typescript, AWS, Serverless - Experiments with Typescript on AWS Lambda
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(2022) Ruby, Rails, React.js, Docker - Fullstack Ruby on Rails w/ React.js example
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(2022) Scala - Experiments with Scala
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(2022) Haskell - Experiments with Haskell
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(2020) Elixir, Docker - Experiments with Elixir
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(2020) Postgres, Docker - Experiments with Postgres and Postgres JSON
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(2020) Kotlin, Cockroach DB - Experiments with Kotlin and Cockroach DB
Selected Open Source Contributions
This document was generated programmatically Mon Apr 22 2024 18:24:21 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
