Software Engineer, Newsela, New York, NY January 2022 – June 2023
Contributed to the development of Newsela content viewing experience, which included delivering Newsela’s View content, Grading page and Free vs Premium pages. Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and QA, to ensure that projects were delivered on time.
Front End Developer, Hearst, New York, NY November 2020 – November 2021
Successfully implemented changes in the front end to make all newspaper digital sites accessible. In addition, completed work to improve performance on all sites, which reach a total of 30 million users a month (SF Chronicle + SFGATE alone).
Front End Developer, Consultant, New York, NY January 2017 – January 2020
Experienced with providing web development instruction to adults and high school students and provided front end consultation to a variety of sites.
Front-End Developer, Sesame Workshop, New York, NY June 2018 – July 2019
Oversaw regular updates on domestic websites of Sesame Workshop, which reach a total of ~70,000 users on average per month. Supported Google Analytics Coordinator by creating custom JavaScript tags for tracking user behavior across domestic and international sites.
Web Developer, Cogent, New York, NY March 2017 – June 2017
Lead developer on a professional athlete’s sites and creating responsive newsletters emails (HTML emails); worked closely with Creative team to successfully develop these sites
additional work experience
Program Supervisor, Brilliant Corners, Los Angeles, CA July 2013 – June 2016
• Responsible for the day-day program implementation of the Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool program
• Managed cases with LA Department of Health Services to ensure that 300+ tenants were successfully housed and retained their housing overtime
• Primary liaison between LA Department Health Services and internal team
• Managed 7 housing coordinators; provided training, support with processes, and monitored team morale
education
University of California, Santa Cruz
Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Latin American and Latino Studies
tech skills
Languages: Ruby, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS, Sass, PHP, Liquid
Development: Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Node.JS, React.JS
Frameworks: Express, Sinatra
CMS: Wordpress, Shopify
GIT: Github/Bitbucket
Amazon Web Services(AWS): EC2, Route 53
Database: MySQL, Salesforce